The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 27 June 2026


US government restricts access to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol in first-ever pre-launch frontier model review

Anthropic accuses Alibaba-linked operators of largest AI distillation attack in history: 28.8 million exchanges

Google loses Nobel laureate John Jumper and three senior AI researchers to Anthropic in one week, Alphabet drops $270 billion

$500 million Intercept fund backed by Stripe, Gates and Anthropic targets the common cold and flu

Ferrite: the iPhone and iPad audio editor built for podcasters and journalists in the field

Citymapper beats Google Maps on European public transport with real-time disruption alerts and carriage-level detail