US bans DeepSeek from federal agencies, Mistral Timestral

The State of Tech, The European Edition of Tuesday 20 October 2026


US bans Chinese AI model DeepSeek from federal agencies

Mistral launches Timestral, open time-series AI models

Google and Synaptics launch multimodal AI chip for edge devices

Germany's Merz pushes for major AI investment ahead of Nvidia talks

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