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Cohere absorbs Aleph Alpha to build a $20B 'sovereign AI' bet — mostly for Europe's benefit

Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha are merging into a ~$20B transatlantic 'sovereign AI' champion, anchored by a $600M Schwarz Group commitment. But the 90/10 ownership split tells the real story: this is an acquisition wearing the costume of a European merger.

May 25, 20263 min read
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Europe gave up chasing the next OpenAI. Its 2026 bet is hard tech and sovereignty.

Beyond Mistral and Lovable, Europe is making a deliberate, state-backed bet on fusion, launchers, chips, and defense. Sovereignty as an investment thesis — the right strategy, with one familiar failure mode.

May 22, 20263 min read
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siliXon wants you to design circuit boards by describing them. It just raised $1.5M.

A UK startup co-founded by Romanian engineer Mihai Mesteru turns a sentence into a production-ready PCB. The pre-seed is in; the hard part is whether the boards actually work.

May 22, 20263 min read