Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6: Agentic AI on Phones + CUDA Rivals

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Sunday 4 October 2026


Qualcomm pushes agentic AI straight onto your phone with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6

AEVEX and Taiwan's CIRC unveil battle-tested drones Vandal and Onyx after Ukraine trials

DeepSeek and Huawei turn up the heat on Nvidia's CUDA software stronghold

Taiwan and the UK sign a science pact on satellites, silicon photonics and chip talent

RoboParty unveils RP1, a full open-source humanoid robot anyone can build on

Indian researchers combine neural networks with whales-and-swarms algorithms for cancer diagnosis