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Cohere to acquire Germany's Aleph Alpha in transatlantic sovereign AI deal

eal Schwarz Group, the Lidl owner and major Aleph Alpha shareholder, will invest $600 million in Cohere's Series E round as part of the transaction

Google makes Gemini Embedding 2 generally available as its first natively multimodal embedding model

The model maps text, images, video, audio and documents into a single vector space, replacing fragmented multi-model pipelines

Kraken 360 targets token launch failures with integrated infrastructure stack

Research drawn from 125 real launches found 85% of tokens issued in 2025 ended the year below their launch valuation

Google launches autonomous research agents for finance, life sciences and market intelligence

Deep Research Max scores 93.3% on DeepSearchQA, up from 66.1% in December, as the company targets enterprise workflows

Nvidia highlights five AI projects tackling climate and conservation for Earth Day

Applications range from 15-day global weather forecasts to automated orangutan nest detection and AI-powered recycling plant

Meta's Edits app marks first anniversary with new creator tools and plans for paid tier

The standalone video editor launched a year ago as Instagram's answer to CapCut and remains free to download

Robinhood Ventures invests $75m in OpenAI

The move is described as offering retail traders exposure to the artificial intelligence company.

Google Pixel battery drain after April update

The company is looking into reports that the April Android update is causing widespread battery drain across Pixel phones.

Apple executive Mike Rockwell weighs stepping back

The tech giant faces potential leadership churn as Mike Rockwell has considered reducing his role amid the Siri overhaul, Bloomberg reported.

Google unveils two new AI chips at Cloud Next as hyperscaler hardware race intensifies

The TPU 8t and TPU 8i are designed for training and inference respectively, succeeding the Ironwood generation

Trump signals thaw in Anthropic standoff, says Pentagon deal 'possible'

The president's remarks follow a White House meeting between Anthropic's chief executive and senior administration officials

OpenAI in talks to invest up to $1.5bn in private equity joint venture

The ChatGPT maker's enterprise push would see it embed engineers inside portfolio companies owned by its buyout partners

Anthropic's restricted Mythos AI model accessed by unauthorised usersAnthropic’s Mythos accessed by unauthorized users

A small group in a private forum gained access to Anthropic PBC’s Mythos, Bloomberg reports.

Kraken showcases tokenised equities push at ethCC with hackathon and developer events

The crypto exchange's xStocks platform has surpassed $25 billion in total transaction volume

Meta breaks ground on Tulsa AI data center

Meta will build an AI-optimised data center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, its first in the state and part of a wider US and global expansion.

Revolut eyes $200bn valuation in potential IPO

The fintech giant's ambitions represent a sharp jump from its $75 billion fundraise last November

Anthropic and Amazon bet $100 billion that compute is the moat that matters

The deal is Amazon's answer to its own OpenAI partnership. For Anthropic, it's an infrastructure arms race

North Korea just stole $292 million from DeFi. And it's pointing fingers at itself

The Lazarus Group's latest crypto heist is a masterclass in infrastructure poisoning. The aftermath is messier than the hack

Tesla's Wednesday earnings call is really about two things: robotaxis and the AI bet

The numbers matter less than the roadmap. Here's what investors actually want to hear

AI coding agents from Anthropic, Google and GitHub leaked repository secrets after prompt injection attack

Security researchers showed a crafted pull-request title could force agents to exfiltrate API keys and tokens without any external infrastructure