The State of Tech, The European Edition of Friday 8 May 2026
Microsoft report: Global AI adoption gap widens, UAE leads at 70.1%, Global South lags at 15.4%Chip manufacturing race becomes geopolitical: US, Asia, Europe pour billions into fabs & data centresIMF flags AI-powered cyberattacks as inevitable threat to global financial stabilityNVIDIA & IREN partner on five-gigawatt AI infrastructure deployment across global pipelineTech giants offer direct investment to SK Hynix for memory chip production capacityShanghai launches cross-border data pilot, brands itself as AI governance hub