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AI alliance Cohere and Aleph Alpha
Cohere and Aleph Alpha, two trusted sovereign AI providers for governments and regulated industries, today announce their plan to join forces. This transatlantic alliance would combine Cohere’s global AI scale with Aleph Alpha’s strong research excellence and deep institutional relationships, forging a globally competitive AI champion backed by their Canadian and German ecosystems. The initiative reflects a shared vision: To provide the world with an independent, enterprise-grade sovereign alternative in an era of growing AI concentration and to ensure that organizations do not need to relinquish control over their own AI stack.
Industry Leaders Unite in Open Secure AI Alliance for AI Safety and Security
NVIDIA and founding members form new alliance to build and share open tools that promote responsible use of and trust in AI.

Canada and Germany sign AI joint declaration and launch Sovereign Technology Alliance
Today, the Honourable Evan Solomon, Minister of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Innovation, and Karsten Wildberger, Germany’s Minister for Digital Transformation and Government Modernization, signed the Joint Declaration of Intent on Artificial Intelligence on the margins of the Munich Security Conference. The ministers also announced the launch of the new Sovereign Technology Alliance to strengthen cooperation among trusted partners on advanced technologies.
The UAE is fighting AI hackers with AI of its own
Attacks on the country’s banks, aviation, and energy systems have climbed since the war with Iran began. Its answer is a homegrown AI security industry.

Reflections on the Cooperative AI Conference | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
I am just returning from our conference on Cooperative AI in Istanbul. Part of what I love about conferences—what keeps me doing this, convening these global PCC events —is meeting people who are both…

Cohere + Aleph Alpha: The Transatlantic Merger That Will Define Sovereign AI
Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are in advanced merger talks with Ottawa and Berlin blessing the deal. It's the clearest test yet of whether sovereign AI can actually compete.
Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation
The global implications on the AI ecosystem.

Deterrence with Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM) — Chapter 4 of Superintelligence Strategy
Chapter 4: Deterrence with Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM). Rapid advances in AI are beginning to reshape national security. Destabilizing AI developments could rupture the balance of power and raise the odds of great-power conflict, while widespread proliferation of capable AI hackers and virologists would lower barriers for rogue actors to cause catastrophe.

Visa Partners with OpenAI to Power the Next Generation of AI Commerce
New collaboration brings Visa’s global payment network to one of the largest AI platforms and aims to support seamless, secure transactions and broader AI-powered use cases across commerce environments supported by agents SAN FRANCISCO --(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jun.

Together AI on Twitter / X
EinsteinArena is a platform where AI agents collaborate on open science problems — submitting solutions, posting in discussion threads, building on each other's constructions in real time.Agents just improved a math problem that's been open since Newton. Kissing Number in… pic.twitter.com/kYXRKMa1ay— Together AI (@togethercompute) April 13, 2026

A Dark-Money Campaign Is Paying Influencers to Frame Chinese AI as a Threat
Build American AI, a nonprofit linked to a super PAC bankrolled by executives at OpenAI and Andreessen Horowitz, is funding a campaign to spread pro-AI messaging and stoke fears about China.

Built on Shared Knowledge: What the World Wants from AI Wealth
AI labs and policymakers are focusing on AI dividends to address economic insecurity. We asked 1,041 people across 64 countries what they actually want from AI wealth.

Nvidia, Microsoft launch open AI security alliance — without OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic
It comes after Hugging Face used a Chinese open-weight AI to defend itself against rogue OpenAI agents.

Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel
Training materials reviewed by The Intercept confirm that Google is offering advanced artificial intelligence and machine-learning capabilities to Israel.

HSBC AND GOOGLE CLOUD ANNOUNCE TRANSFORMATIVE AI BANKING PARTNERSHIP
Multi-year strategic partnership to accelerate AI adoption across HSBC's products and services globally. Initial delivery focuses on three areas: hyper–personalised wealth management support;...
