The State of Tech, The European Edition of Thursday 30 July 2026


US commits $874 million to AI chip research under the CHIPS and Science Act

Global AI patent grants break 100,000 in a single year for the first time

SUSS MicroTec invests €45 million in advanced chip packaging centre in Karlsruhe

OpenAI opens frontier models free to 100,000 academic researchers worldwide

Threema: the Swiss encrypted messenger that needs no phone number

Hugin: the free open-source tool that stitches your photos into panoramas