The State of Tech, The European Edition of Saturday 6 June 2026
Meta pushes facial recognition to smart glasses, raising GDPR alarms across Europe
Alphabet raises eighty billion dollars to fund AI infrastructure build-out
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal AI model for laptops
IBM commits ten billion dollars to deliver fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029
Try it yourself: Gemma 4 12B runs free and offline on your laptop via Ollama
Amazon's Proteus robot takes plain-English instructions, coming to European warehouses in 2027
Meta pushes facial recognition to smart glasses, raising GDPR alarms across Europe
Alphabet raises eighty billion dollars to fund AI infrastructure build-out
Google DeepMind releases Gemma 4 12B, an open-source multimodal AI model for laptops
IBM commits ten billion dollars to deliver fault-tolerant quantum computer by 2029
Try it yourself: Gemma 4 12B runs free and offline on your laptop via Ollama
Amazon's Proteus robot takes plain-English instructions, coming to European warehouses in 2027

