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
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