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The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 30 September 2026 AMD Writes an $8.2 Billion Cheque for Fei-Fei Li's World Labs TSMC lifts 2-nanometer wafer target by twenty percent as AI demand overheats OpenAI's New Dots Never Clock Off PwC finds a widening AI skills divide across the global workforce The encrypted European messenger Olvid keeps your chats working without a phone number The free open-source tool Nitrux Pix cleans up messy photo libraries on your own laptop

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 29 September 2026 Trump and Speaker Johnson host tech CEOs at the White House for an AI summit as regulation pressure mounts Nvidia launches Open Agent Safety Platform to keep autonomous AI agents from going rogue Pope Leo rebukes Trump and tech CEOs, warning AI risks are not fake news Samsung consortium invests one billion dollars in KKR's Helix AI infrastructure venture TiddlyWiki: free open-source personal wiki that stores everything in a single file on your own device Cycle dot travel: free offline Europe-wide cycling and walking planner with full topographic maps

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 28 September 2026 US and China agree to open formal AI dialogue alongside tariff cuts on thirty billion in goods Microsoft appoints James Collins as global government AI lead at its new Frontier Company Global industrial robot stock hits record five million units, with China at fifty-nine percent of deployments Mazda upgrades CX-6e electric SUV in China with lidar suite, highway autopilot and automated parking Marble: free offline navigation app for Europe with full country maps and no data connection needed Windy.com: browser-based weather service with multi-model forecasts, radar layers and no account required

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 27 September 2026 University of Vienna runs quantum processor in orbit for the first time Skylark Labs and university partners unveil robots that keep learning after deployment Snap launches AI-powered enterprise smart glasses with Salesforce, NVIDIA and AWS North Korean operative infiltrates New Zealand company via fake remote IT contractor role Sky Map: free open-source Android app that shows the live sky above you Lychee: self-hosted, open-source photo library that keeps your pictures off the big clouds

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 26 September 2026 US senators introduce bill to ban superintelligent AI, with prison terms of up to twenty years Akamai signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Anthropic, potentially rising to $20 billion Pope Leo XIV addresses UNESCO in Paris, calling for international AI safety measures Palo Alto Networks launches AI agent system to defend against AI-driven cyberattacks Mnemosyne: the free, open-source, privacy-friendly flashcard tool built on spaced repetition Corporate AI enters its "prove-it phase" as business leaders demand measurable results

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 25 September 2026 OpenAI, Google and Anthropic team up on independent AI safety standards body EU ministers push Chips Act 2.0 to cut semiconductor dependence Anthropic's Claude discovers possible new CRISPR-like gene editing system Google launches AI chips into orbit with Project Suncatcher Standard Notes Sync: end-to-end encrypted notes across all your devices Öffi: open-source European public transport planner with no tracking

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 24 September 2026 Alleged OpenAI agent breaches Australia's Medicare, Prime Minister raises alarm with Sam Altman ShinyHunters claims hack of FBI jobs site, exposing thousands of employee and applicant records Anthropic and OpenAI release cheaper, more capable AI models in fresh pricing battle Majority of Americans now say data centres harm the environment, energy costs and quality of life Sygic Travel: the offline maps app built for multi-country European road trips Pencil2D: the free open-source animation studio for frame-by-frame hand-drawn cartoons

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 23 September 2026 Trump renames AI to "super intelligence" and rejects international oversight at the UN General Assembly UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham calls for global AI safety rules, directly challenging Trump's position Washington proposes a bilateral AI incident alert mechanism with China ahead of Trump-Xi summit China-linked hackers escalate cyberespionage campaigns against European maritime organisations, ENISA warns Padloc: free, open-source password vault from a European team, works across all devices Cartograph: offline topographic hiking app for Europe with no subscription required

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 22 September 2026 AMD nears trillion-dollar valuation as AI chip prices rise ten percent Gates Foundation commits one billion dollars to close the AI inequality gap Meta, NEC and Sumitomo Electric announce Petal, the first commercial petabit transatlantic subsea cable Belgian firm Aikido launches Altar, an open-weight AI security model that runs entirely on-premises Organic Maps: free offline navigation across Europe with no tracking or ads Subtitle Edit: open-source tool for creating, syncing and translating video subtitles

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 21 September 2026 Google's Gemini AI carried out real cyberattacks during internal safety testing Citi CEO warns of a "tsunami of patching" as AI-driven cyber threats spread globally Flawed AI intelligence nearly triggered a US interception of a Chinese ship at sea Nvidia's Jensen Huang puts the chance of AI-caused human extinction by 2030 at zero percent Etherpad: free, open-source, encrypted collaborative writing with no account required Stellarium: free open-source planetarium app that maps any night sky on any device

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 20 September 2026 Anthropic weighs new AI model to counter OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra Donald Trump launches public poll to rename artificial intelligence Chinese startup Spirit AI predicts humanoid robot brain breakthrough by mid-2027 Drugmakers pioneer commercial pharmaceutical research in orbit Kiwix Medicine Library puts trusted medical references on your device, offline and free OpenSprinkler brings weather-aware, open-source control to garden irrigation

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 19 September 2026 California orders independent oversight and a kill switch for frontier AI models Microsoft publishes a draft AI constitution putting humans firmly in charge INTERPOL uses AI to identify 126 suspected foreign terrorist fighters from online jihadist content Google, Nvidia and Anthropic launch an alliance to keep AI data centres from breaking the grid Free open-source password manager Buttercup offers a genuine cross-platform vault with no subscription Free European route planner BRouter builds cycling and hiking routes that phone apps refuse to consider

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 18 September 2026 Huawei announces two new AI chips for 2027 in direct challenge to Nvidia Unsealed NYT court filings accuse Microsoft and OpenAI of knowing copyright theft California law requires advertisers to label AI-generated performers Taiwan's Winbond buys Infineon's NOR Flash and F-RAM business for $1.12 billion Mailfence: encrypted European email under EU law Hugin: free open-source panorama stitching on your own computer

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 17 September 2026 OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra, its most capable model, but admits it sometimes tries to dodge human oversight CenterPoint Energy confirms hackers accessed personal data of millions of US utility customers US House advances data centre power bill while AI kill-switch legislation is parked for further study Chinese firm RobotPlusPlus raises hundreds of millions to send robots up cranes, ships and oil rigs Kurviger: the free European navigation app that plans scenic offline routes without tracking or subscriptions Shotcut Studio: the free open-source video editor that turns any laptop into a serious video workstation

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 16 September 2026 European Commission publishes landmark legislative proposal on minors' access to social media Microsoft agrees to strict AI guardrails and data protections for American schools TSMC exercises caution on using AI for sensitive chip research and development Australian minister accuses data centre giant NextDC of using AI to write lobbying emails CryptPad: the free, end-to-end encrypted European office suite Homebox: the open-source home inventory app that keeps your data on your own machine