Advertise on podcast: The State of Tech — The European Edition

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 22 October 2026 New Mexico jury orders Meta to pay $25 billion over misleading privacy practices. OpenAI's frontier models, including GPT-6 Astra, arrive natively inside Google Cloud. NVIDIA unveils new open AI model families at GTC Berlin to boost Europe's sovereign AI capabilities. QuantumScape plans a 100 megawatt-hour solid-state battery line for AI data centres and defence. Panorama Tools is the free open-source toolkit behind many panorama stitchers. Mapillary offers free, crowdsourced street-level photos of European streets, trails and cycle paths.

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 21 October 2026 Elon Musk promises SpaceX shares to every American child Super Micro's revenue explodes on the AI server boom A Chinese AI tool linked to a wave of cyberattacks in Japan Chipmaker Micron on what memory it takes to power the next wave of AI The free photo organiser Mylio Photos The open-source privacy keyboard FlorisBoard

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 20 October 2026 US bans Chinese AI model DeepSeek from federal agencies Mistral launches Timestral, open time-series AI models Google and Synaptics launch multimodal AI chip for edge devices Germany's Merz pushes for major AI investment ahead of Nvidia talks Manuskripte: free, distraction-free writing app for Mac BikeCitizens: free bike-first route planner and cycling app

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 19 October 2026 Chinese AI firms rival US giants in developer usage and ignite a global price war OpenAI officially confirms humanoid robot project with a demonstration targeted for 2027 Microsoft pulls the plug on a UK data centre deal Saudi Arabia hits a 99.8 percent activation rate for a core internet routing security standard Cryptee offers encrypted notes, documents and photo storage in one browser-based vault Weawow delivers clean, widget-friendly weather forecasts without an account

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 18 October 2026 Google's Willow chip cuts quantum errors forty-fold with magic state cultivation China enacts immediate export registration for twenty-three advanced AI technologies Meta releases Muse Spark Open, its strongest US open-weight AI model China becomes a net robotics exporter and dominates humanoid shipments AiMOGA opens global pre-orders for Mobo, a family companion humanoid robot Sigil and StreetComplete: two free tools to try this weekend

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 17 October 2026 Delaware jury finds Arm breached its licence with Qualcomm, sending Arm and AMD stocks down five percent. China proposes sweeping export controls on advanced AI models, agents and chip designs. Google signs CNN, the Financial Times, Axios and over four hundred publishers into its AI news licensing program. Global surge in Gmail account takeovers prompts coordinated response from Google and law enforcement. Drawpile is the free open-source app that turns any laptop into a shared drawing canvas for friends, students, or remote teams. Flightradar24 turns your phone into a live map of every plane in the sky, perfect for weekend travellers and plane-spotters.

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 16 October 2026 TSMC posts record AI-driven quarterly profit Apple launches the iPhone Duo, its first foldable Microsoft ships record patch load with exploited Windows bug Amazon launches Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse listening wearables QOwnNotes: free open-source markdown note-taking app MeteoSwiss: ad-free, accurate weather app for Europe

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 15 October 2026 ASML warns of chip machine shortfall as AI demand surges Snowflake unifies AI and data on one governed platform XPENG pitches Europe on car and robot AI partnerships SKYX closes merger with smart home player Deako Tropy: free open-source photo organiser that runs on your own machine Serene: free focus app that blocks distractions during work sessions

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 14 October 2026 Chip industry crosses one trillion dollars in annual sales White House orders AI companies to report major incidents immediately CyberTAN and Marvell unveil liquid-cooled switch platform for AI data centres Apple launches HomeView smart home hub with cameras, thermostats and doorbell OpenAI engineer arrested for allegedly bugging executive conference room Workato teams up with Australian partners on sovereign AI

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 13 October 2026 Instinct, the AI assistant inside iMessage and WhatsApp, raises $1B at a $10B valuation Hackers push French supermarket fridges to 50°C, forcing mass food waste HCLTech signs global premier partnership with Anthropic for agentic AI Apple's Welcome Home event brings a smart home hub, HomePod mini and Apple TV Ente Photos offers encrypted, open-source photo backup with a free tier Ommwriter turns your laptop into a calm, distraction-free writing room

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 12 October 2026 Washington makes AI companies report security incidents Microsoft's Satya Nadella urges an emergency brake on powerful AI Super Micro fixer pleads guilty to smuggling Nvidia AI servers to China The Philippines moves towards nuclear energy to power AI and data centres Try WriteMonkey, the free distraction-free writing app for Windows News Explorer, the privacy-friendly European reader app

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 11 October 2026 Unreleased Anthropic model submits 20 incomplete visa applications on live US government site Internet root security key rolls over this weekend, only the second time in history OpenAI launches GPT-6 with Intelligent UI that builds interactive elements around your question Microsoft turns Windows into an agent platform and introduces usage-based billing for Copilot MetaGer: privacy-first German search engine, free and no account needed Scenic Route Finder: free tool for discovering the most beautiful roads for drives and rides

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 10 October 2026 Anthropic launches Project Glasswing to defend critical infrastructure GhostAction compromises 500+ GitHub accounts and leaks 3,300 secrets GlobalFoundries and TSMC sign $2 billion US chip interposer deal Revolut plans to become a global tech company with its own AI in-boxed helps you unsubscribe from unwanted marketing emails Meteoblue offers free, detailed Swiss weather forecasts

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 9 October 2026 Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a frontier AI model that hunts and fixes critical software bugs, with access deliberately limited. OpenAI launches Dots, persistent personal AI agents that keep working in the background across thousands of apps. Washington freezes green card applications from Microsoft, Infosys, TCS and others over foreign-worker allegations. Mistral AI previews Large 4, a one-trillion-parameter European frontier model trained entirely in EU data centres. Zotero collects, organises and cites your research sources in one free, open-source library you control. Keet lets you video call, chat and share files directly with friends, with no account, no sign-up and no central server in the middle.

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 8 October 2026 Australia weighs mandatory AI incident reporting after an OpenAI agent breaches Medicare systems Fake AI Ad Portals Are Phishing Your Marketing Team Cambridge researchers say an AI-designed vaccine has cleared its first human trial Hackers Hijacked Three Country Domain Registries Zeal is the free offline documentation browser that puts hundreds of programming references on your own laptop Waymarked Trails shows you the official hiking, cycling and mountain bike routes across Europe on one free, clean map