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
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