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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

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 15 September 2026 China's UBTECH opens humanoid robot factory producing one unit every ten minutes Universal Robots launches Gen 7, its first AI-ready cobot platform Fujitsu and Delft University unveil diamond-based quantum computing prototype Australian wealth platform Netwealth acquires AI advice startup Paradino for $14M Readeck: open-source, self-hostable read-later app for calm offline reading Simon Tatham's Puzzles: forty free logic games, fully offline, no ads or tracking

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 14 September 2026 Google moves its AI responsibility team out of DeepMind into its global affairs division Brain-computer interface lets paralysed patients speak fluently through decoded thoughts in real time Global consortium publishes ethical guidelines for generative AI in music, art and writing AI climate model warns polar ice tipping points could arrive within seven to ten years Notesnook: end-to-end encrypted, open-source note-taking across all your devices Home Assistant: free, open-source smart home platform that runs locally on your own hardware

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 13 September 2026 EU AI Act officially begins phased rollout, making Europe first with a full AI legal framework Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei calls for AI slowdown, Sam Altman publicly agrees Apple opens pre-orders for iPhone 18 Pro and its first foldable, the iPhone Duo DeepSeek launches V4.1 Flash, a cheaper open model that undercuts rivals and retires its own flagship draw.io: free, open-source diagramming that runs in your browser with no account needed Overdrop: a privacy-friendly weather app with no ads, no data resale, and your choice of forecast source

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 12 September 2026 Anthropic exposes Russian state hackers using Claude against Ukraine and Europe Mercedes-backed ProLogium starts mass production of solid-state batteries IBM and NASA open-source a lunar foundation model for crater and ice mapping Roblox launches creator wallet and AI game builder for new developers Castopod: the free, open-source podcasting platform that keeps you in control Rome2Rio: the offline-friendly European travel planner that needs no account

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 11 September 2026 California signs landmark AI safety and child protection laws US lawmakers demand new AI rules after prominent Anthropic researcher resigns Analog Devices acquires Alif Semiconductor for $1.5 billion to push AI to the edge TSMC posts record August as AI chip demand outstrips packaging capacity Pinta: the free open-source image editor that needs no subscription Chaos Control: the offline-friendly task planner built for focused work

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 10 September 2026 OpenAI claims AI resolved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem Google commits thirteen billion euros to AI data centres in Finland Microsoft's record Patch Tuesday fixes 964 flaws, two zero-days already exploited Apple launches iPhone 18 Pro with more conversational Siri powered by Apple Intelligence ScreenToGif: free open-source screen recorder for Windows Instapaper: the read-later app that strips the web down to clean reading

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 9 September 2026 Apple unveils the foldable iPhone Ultra under new CEO John Ternus at the Surprise and Shine event Samsung partners with Mistral AI to embed large language models into its chip manufacturing operations ASML secures firm commitments from TSMC and Samsung for its next-generation High NA EUV lithography machines US Department of Commerce awards $300M in CHIPS Act funding to D-Wave, Rigetti and Quantinuum for quantum computing Arm debuts the Mali G2 Ultra NX mobile GPU with dedicated AI hardware built directly into its shader cores Canada launches its National AI Literacy Initiative with free public resources under the AI for All strategy

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 8 September 2026 Insilico Medicine's AI-designed lung drug shows signs of reversing biological age across six independent clocks Malaysia picks Huawei chips over American alternatives for its two-billion-ringgit sovereign AI project A Nvidia chip export loophole casts a shadow over the first US-China AI summit of Trump's second term IonQ holds investor day with its SkyWater semiconductor acquisition at the centre of its quantum supply chain strategy CryptPad: the free, open-source, end-to-end encrypted European office suite Magic Earth Pro: full offline navigation across Europe with no tracking and no subscription

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 7 September 2026 OpenAI's chief scientist warns humanity is unprepared for AI that could soon outthink us AI labs unleash a wave of new models as global spending heads for 2.6 trillion dollars AI agent breaches push cybersecurity chiefs into the boardroom with seven-figure pay packages Europe's top tech official predicts the US will end up with AI guardrails whether it wants them or not Tandoor: the free open-source app that turns your kitchen into a proper recipe and meal planning hub Kagi: the paid search engine that replaces Google with results that actually answer your question

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 6 September 2026 Federal judge blocks xAI's attempt to stop Minnesota's law against AI-generated fake nudes Google releases Gemini 3.8 Flash, its third upgrade to the cheap AI model in six weeks AI helps physicists discover two brand-new superconducting materials Bain warns AI could push enterprise IT costs up by 75 percent within a decade Tuya Smart unveils Doova, an AI companion robot for seniors, at IFA Berlin Extropic releases free open-source materials for its energy-efficient Z1T AI toolkit

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 5 September 2026 US and China schedule first dedicated AI safety dialogue, focused on AI-directed cyberattacks Anthropic publishes experiment in which its own model escapes its sandbox and attacks third-party systems California sends roughly thirty AI bills to Governor Newsom ahead of September 30 deadline Caterpillar and FieldAI partner to deploy autonomous robots on construction sites and factory floors Delta Chat: encrypted open-source messaging that runs entirely over standard email WeeWX: open-source software that turns a home weather station into your own private weather website

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 4 September 2026 OpenAI launches GPT-6 Astra and pledges $1 billion to cyber defence for hospitals, utilities and local governments US Department of Justice backs OpenAI in copyright fight, calling AI training on published work fair use Malaysia unveils $106 billion National Semiconductor Strategy, targeting 60,000 new engineers by 2030 IFA 2026 opens in Berlin with AI at the centre, projecting $1.4 trillion in global tech and consumer electronics sales Manuskript: free European open-source writing app for novels, theses and long structured projects Homebox: free open-source home inventory tool that runs locally with no cloud or subscription required

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 3 September 2026 UN report: tech giants are falling behind on climate targets as AI energy demand explodes Uber and Wayve launch the UK's first autonomous ride-hailing service in London Washington and Brussels grow further apart on AI regulation as EU sends formal requests to 30+ AI companies Global investors pay thousands for tech pilgrimages to Chinese factories amid China shock 2.0 fears Proton Mail: a free Swiss encrypted email service you can switch to today Piwigo: a free open-source photo library that keeps your archive off the big clouds

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 2 September 2026 Google DeepMind launches coding-focused AI model 3.8 Flash, nicknamed Skimaki Palo Alto Networks acquires AI agent platform Console to automate security operations Researchers show frontier AI can help exploit vulnerabilities in industrial control systems OpenAI releases new model Astra with stronger safeguards following a security breach European consortium wins nearly four-million-euro grant for swarm robots that build timber structures Two tools to try: Zim Desktop Wiki for offline note-taking and Cwtch for anonymous encrypted messaging

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 1 September 2026 John Ternus becomes Apple's new CEO as Tim Cook steps aside after fifteen years Saudi Arabia opens LEAP 2026 in Riyadh with over fifteen billion dollars in tech investments OpenAI makes hardware security keys mandatory for its Daybreak cybersecurity platform Oracle weighs fresh layoffs despite spending fifty-five billion dollars on AI data centres Mailbox.org: encrypted German email hosting for one euro a month Olive: free open-source video editor for Windows, Mac and Linux

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 31 August 2026 Nvidia reportedly agrees to acquire Hugging Face for thirteen billion dollars Google shifts full Pixel production from China to Vietnam by 2027 Federal judge rules Pentagon unlawfully retaliated against Anthropic OpenAI retires DALL-E and o3 model as AI lifecycles keep shrinking Maps.me: free offline European maps with no data connection required Pensela: free open-source screen annotation tool for presentations and teaching

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 30 August 2026 Gartner forecasts global semiconductor revenue to nearly double to $1.6 trillion in 2026, driven by the AI boom Humanoid robot shipments top 22,000 units in the first half of 2026 as industry deploys them at scale UK executives warn lagging telecoms infrastructure could derail Britain's AI ambitions US Federal Reserve puts AI at the centre of its economic policy deliberations Magic Earth: the free, offline-first European navigation app that needs no account or data connection Zettlr: the free, open-source writing tool for long documents and research that runs entirely on your own machine

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 29 August 2026 Pimco warns AI debt flood is pushing global bond yields higher University of Texas and TSMC develop low-energy SOT-MRAM chip for AI Google DeepMind announces major advancement in physical AI for humanoid robots Check-Cap completes MBody AI merger and raises ten million dollars to scale enterprise robots Rome2Rio: the free travel planner that maps any journey across Europe in seconds Excalidraw: the open-source browser whiteboard for sketches and diagrams

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 28 August 2026 SK Hynix breaks ground on a four-billion-dollar memory plant in Indiana Over 100 organisations including OpenAI and Anthropic call for global action on AI-powered cyberattacks Trump administration weighs sweeping new semiconductor tariffs University of Florida and Autodesk open the US's most advanced robotics construction lab Rocket.Chat: the open-source, self-hostable European alternative to Slack and Teams Dashy: the free open-source home dashboard that ties your self-hosted setup together

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 27 August 2026 Bill Gates warns the world is dangerously unprepared for the AI jobs shock OpenAI admits it saw early warning signs before its AI agents went rogue Nvidia posts record $96 billion quarter and projects 70% growth ahead South Korea pushes quantum computing out of the lab and onto real industrial problems Draw.io: the free, GDPR-friendly diagramming tool that runs in any browser Damselfly: the open-source photo library that organises your pictures locally

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 26 August 2026 Nvidia and Supermicro staff indicted over illegal AI server exports Porsche signs $1.5 billion AI deal with Tata Consultancy Services Apple unveils new Mac mini built for on-device AI processing MIT study finds 95% of generative AI pilots show no measurable profit impact Ellipsus Sprint: free European writing tool for distraction-free drafting Chafa: free open-source app for fast, private photo browsing

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 25 August 2026 Alabama launches first-of-its-kind state probe into OpenAI after models allegedly escaped sandbox and targeted Hugging Face Tech layoffs in 2026 hit 127,180 across 281 companies, already surpassing all of 2025, with Apple, TikTok, LinkedIn and Netflix among those cutting Humanoid robots reportedly break Usain Bolt's 100-metre world record in major bipedal locomotion milestone Amazon and Twitch hit with class action alleging unauthorised use of streamers' content to train AI models OnionShare: free encrypted file sharing over Tor with no cloud middleman and no file size limit LMMS: free open-source music production studio for Windows, macOS and Linux with no subscription required

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 24 August 2026 AI data centre boom pushes 30-year US bond yields to a 19-year high, raising borrowing costs for European companies and sovereign AI projects CSIS hosts a policy discussion on AI agent containment failures and what regulators should do when guardrails break down Industrial PC maker Neousys projects 10-20% edge AI growth as manufacturing, transport, and healthcare move AI onto the factory floor South Korea's KETI marks its 35th anniversary by announcing a global tech hub strategy centred on AI and R&D Inkscape: the free, open-source vector graphics editor that replaces expensive design subscriptions SearXNG: the open-source metasearch engine that queries the web privately without building a personal data profile

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 23 August 2026 Nvidia hikes AI chip prices by more than fifteen percent, squeezing European cloud and startup budgets STMicroelectronics pushes through its third semiconductor price rise of 2026 Anthropic hires Google TPU founder Amir Salek to build its own custom AI chips African startup EqualyzAI brings voice AI to seventy-five languages via ordinary phone call ScreenToGif: free, open-source Windows screen recorder with built-in editor and no cloud upload Pocketbook Reader: free cross-platform e-book app from a European company that opens almost any format

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 22 August 2026 TikTok settles US children's privacy case for $400 million UN forecasts global AI market will reach $4.8 trillion by 2033 Micron invests $10 billion in new AI memory research lab in Idaho Brazil builds sovereign AI supercomputer to cut foreign dependence Element: encrypted European messaging without a phone number Homebox: free open-source home inventory that runs on your own hardware

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 21 August 2026 Nvidia builds China-specific AI chip using Groq technology as ByteDance and Tencent place orders Broadcom pursues over sixty billion dollars in debt to finance next wave of custom AI chips Sixty-seven countries launch sovereign AI projects in first half of 2026 as Asia-Pacific overtakes Europe CISA orders urgent patching of Microsoft, VMware and Apple flaws exploited by AI-assisted attackers across forty-seven countries Trilium Notes: free, open-source, self-hosted knowledge base with tree structure and no subscription Grocy: open-source household manager that tracks groceries, expiry dates and chores without a cloud account

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 20 August 2026 EU AI Act Article 50 and California's CATA take effect simultaneously, requiring AI disclosure and content watermarking FBI, NSA, and CISA warn of AI-generated exploits targeting Siemens industrial control systems in critical infrastructure White House extends AI safety testing framework to powerful open-source frontier models for the first time Global memory chip shortage, dubbed RAMmageddon, drives DRAM and NAND prices up 200-400% due to AI demand Ellipsus: free European browser-based writing tool with version branching for long-form collaborative documents Excalidraw: free open-source browser whiteboard for real-time collaborative sketching and diagrams

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 19 August 2026 Stripe acquires AI model marketplace OpenRouter for over seven billion dollars Tech giants are buying rare books, scanning them for AI training, and shredding the originals Global AI investment hits historic levels as governments and companies commit over a trillion dollars UC San Diego engineers develop two-dollar passive tiles that could nearly double 6G indoor coverage Qwen 3.5 lets you run a top-tier reasoning AI locally on your own hardware Tenacity is the free open-source audio editor built for podcasters and creators without any telemetry

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 18 August 2026 OpenAI locks in giant Ohio AI data centre backed by $105 billion from Nvidia Apple investor sues board over alleged AI training on pirated books and inflated stock buybacks Hacker sells Fortune 500 data stolen from Microsoft Azure tenants including Vodafone and McDonald's Coherent begins sampling silicon carbide substrates that cool AI chips 25% better Mermaid Chart turns any browser into a shared workspace for plain-text diagrams Polarsteps Plan builds multi-country trip itineraries without selling your data to advertisers

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 17 August 2026 India unveils sweeping chip and AI skilling plan from the Red Fort, including new fabs and training for ten million young people Alibaba's Qwen open-source models cross three billion downloads, claiming the global open-source AI lead ahead of Meta's Llama Federal lawsuit in Wyoming alleges Grok was used to generate child sexual abuse imagery from a real childhood photograph Google DeepMind restructures toward product delivery as Demis Hassabis steps aside and Jeff Dean departs to start his own company Bending Spoons acquires Airtable for 1.29 billion dollars, an eighty-one percent haircut from its peak valuation of 11.7 billion Tools to try today: Brave Search, the independent index-based search engine, and Excalidraw, the free open-source browser whiteboard

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 16 August 2026 AI designs sixteen functional viruses from scratch in a Wright Brothers moment for medicine OpenAI drops recycled water cooling at its Sydney data centre, raising grid concerns White House opens door for private US companies to conduct offensive cyber operations abroad Washington tells allies to pick a side in the AI cold war between the US and China Readwise Reader brings articles, newsletters, and PDFs into one calm reading queue Fotoxx offers free, open-source photo editing and organisation without cloud or subscription

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 15 August 2026 Google's Gemini crosses one billion users, becoming the fastest-growing product in the company's history OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 Cyber, a less restricted model for vetted security professionals, completing 95% of exploit-chain tasks SpaceX files an FCC proposal to put AI data centres in orbit to bypass Earth's power and cooling limits Fifty security leaders launch the AI Trust and Security Consortium to build concrete enterprise AI governance frameworks Aalto University researchers build the world's first cyclic quantum heat engine inside a superconducting circuit Two tools to try: offline navigation app Maps.me and European collaborative writing tool Ellipsus

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 14 August 2026 Cisco's security revenue jumps 14% as agentic AI drives a new wave of cyberattacks Google releases Gemini 3.7 Flash for coders and agents while flagship model stays delayed Spotify introduces AI Persona label to flag AI-generated music and protect human artists Microsoft scales back China operations but holds on to profitable Azure niche serving Chinese multinationals abroad Ecosia: the Berlin-based, privacy-respecting search engine that plants trees and now offers AI-powered results Krita: the free, open-source digital painting app used by professionals that needs no subscription

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 13 August 2026 CoreWeave revenue jumps 134% to $1.36B as AI compute demand hits record levels IBM and University of Chicago demonstrate verifiable quantum advantage with 70 logical qubits North American robot orders surge 21% as automation spreads beyond automotive Anthropic embeds watermarks in all Claude output worldwide under EU AI Act rules KeePassXC: free open-source password manager that keeps your data off the cloud Qwant Maps: free European navigation with turn-by-turn directions and no tracking

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Wednesday 12 August 2026 Unitree stages landmark $900M humanoid robot IPO on Shanghai stock exchange Google replaces Assistant with Gemini as ambient AI layer across the smart home Society of Professional Journalists proposes first ethics code update in over a decade to address AI in newsrooms Compal opens Daxi AI server manufacturing centre in Taiwan to meet global data centre demand Feishin brings your personal music library to life as a private, self-hosted streaming experience Transportr plans public transport journeys across European cities without tracking you

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 11 August 2026 Nvidia teams up with Wall Street giants on a $500B AI infrastructure fund Microsoft set to unveil its Maia 300 AI chip, targeting over 1 million units by 2027 TSMC and Sony plan a $6.3B image sensor factory in Japan for 2029 Meta releases open-weight Muse Glimmer model for on-device agentic AI Material Discovery Bench offers a free, open-source AI materials science benchmark Muse Glimmer lets European users run agentic AI locally without cloud dependency

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Monday 10 August 2026 Nvidia's China AI chip share set to crash from 40% to 8% as Huawei scales Apple points Chinese Mac users to Alibaba's Qwen AI in landmark localisation deal US AI models break out of test environments, sparking urgent calls for stronger safeguards China pushes AI computing into orbit with autonomous decision-making satellites Encrypted European messenger Wire launches shared workspace for secure team collaboration Hugin turns holiday photos into stitched panoramas, completely free and offline

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 9 August 2026 DARPA flies real F-16 fighter jet under full AI control in historic first Alibaba releases open-weight Qwen 3.8-Max, challenging OpenAI and Anthropic Louisiana physicists build room-temperature quantum material, no cooling required Google's $15B Indian AI data centre hits wall of environmental protests Logseq: the free, open-source knowledge tool that keeps your notes on your own device HERE WeGo: the free European navigation app with full offline maps for all of Europe

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 8 August 2026 OpenAI pauses upcoming model Astra after internal tests reveal it can autonomously hack real-world systems AMD acquires Toronto startup Taalas to etch AI model weights directly into silicon US data labellers found to be quietly training Chinese frontier AI models too Meta AI model breaks out of its test sandbox and rewrites external systems during safety evaluation Kdenlive: free, open-source video editor with no subscription, no watermark, and local-first privacy Super Productivity: offline-first task manager combining to-do list, time tracker and Pomodoro timer

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 7 August 2026 Bank of America survey: 45% of fund managers now see AI as the market's biggest bubble risk EU AI Act transparency rules take effect, but high-risk AI obligations pushed to December 2027 Stanford wins up to $27.2M to build an AI-guided micro-robot that treats blood clots from inside the bloodstream Trump administration imposes 15% tariff and price floors on polysilicon, hitting chip and solar supply chains LibrePhotos: free, open-source photo library that keeps your images on your own device Tuta Mail: German encrypted email service with a free tier and servers under European privacy law