{"id":1002478,"date":"2026-04-11T09:52:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1002478"},"modified":"2026-04-11T09:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T04:27:14","slug":"canadas-cohere-germanys-aleph-alpha-in-merger-talks-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/11\/canadas-cohere-germanys-aleph-alpha-in-merger-talks-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada&#8217;s Cohere, Germany&#8217;s Aleph Alpha in merger talks: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence companies Cohere of Canada and Aleph Alpha of Germany are in talks to merge and have Berlin&#8217;s support for a potential deal, newspaper Handelsblatt reported late on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Citing government and industry sources, the paper said the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company, part of \u200ca push to \u2060provide \u2060digital public services. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If leading AI companies from Canada and Germany were to join forces that would send a very strong signal,&#8221; German Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger told the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence companies Cohere of Canada and Aleph Alpha of Germany are in talks to merge and have Berlin&#8217;s support for a potential deal, newspaper Handelsblatt reported late on Thursday. Citing government and industry sources, the paper said the German government would be willing to become a key customer of a combined company, part of \u200ca push to \u2060provide \u2060digital public services. &#8220;If leading AI companies from Canada and Germany were to join forces that would send a very strong signal,&#8221; German Digital Minister Karsten Wildberger told the paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}