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