The State of Tech — The European Edition

By Doorzetters B.V.

The State of Tech, the European Edition, is your daily briefing on the tech stories that matter most to Europe. In 15 minutes, hosts Samantha Lawrence and Bob Russell cover six stories: from EU AI reg... more

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The podcast currently has 186 episodes available.

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August 24, 2026AI boom drives 19-year bond yield highs in Europe
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
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15min
August 23, 2026Nvidia AI Chip Price Hike & Anthropic Builds Own Silicon
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
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14min
August 22, 2026TikTok $400M Privacy Settlement: EU Impact & AI Market
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
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12min
August 21, 2026Nvidia's China AI Chip Plan & Sovereign AI Surge
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
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14min
August 20, 2026EU AI Act Article 50 live: transparency rules reset
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
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15min
August 19, 2026Stripe Buys OpenRouter for $7B: AI Plumbing Consolidates
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
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15min
August 18, 2026OpenAI $105B Ohio AI Data Centre & Azure Fortune 500 Breach
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
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15min
August 17, 2026India chip plan 2026: Modi's Red Fort AI & fab push
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
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15min
August 16, 2026AI designs new viruses from scratch: Wright Brothers moment
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
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14min
August 15, 2026Gemini hits 1 billion users: EU digital sovereignty at stake
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
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14min

FAQs about The State of Tech — The European Edition:

How many episodes does The State of Tech — The European Edition have?

The podcast currently has 186 episodes available.