{"id":625055,"date":"2026-04-24T07:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625055\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:13:09","slug":"canadas-cohere-and-germanys-aleph-alpha-to-announce-merger-handelsblatt-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/625055\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Cohere and Germany&#8217;s Aleph Alpha to announce merger, Handelsblatt reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Artificial intelligence companies \u200cCohere of Canada \u200cand Aleph Alpha of Germany \u200bhave agreed to merge, newspaper Handelsblatt reported on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Citing government \u200cand \u2060industry sources, the paper said the \u2060combined company was intended as an \u200balternative to \u200bU.S. \u200btechnology companies, providing \u200cdigital public-sector services to businesses and public authorities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">The deal is to be announced at \u200c11 a.m. (0900 \u200bGMT) in \u200bBerlin, \u200bwith Digital \u200cMinister Karsten Wildberger and \u200bhis \u200bCanadian counterpart Evan Solomon in attendance, \u200bthe \u200creport said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">(Writing by Friederike \u200bHeine; Editing by \u200bTom Hogue)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERLIN, April 24 (Reuters) &#8211; Artificial intelligence companies \u200cCohere of Canada \u200cand Aleph Alpha of Germany \u200bhave agreed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":625056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[225866,49,48,83282,10816,234389,225867,44,205367],"class_list":{"0":"post-625055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-aleph-alpha","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-evan-solomon","12":"tag-germany","13":"tag-handelsblatt","14":"tag-industry-sources","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-technology-companies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=625055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/625056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}