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Europe steps up battle to cut reliance on US big tech as cloud law, political tensions intensify
European governments are expanding efforts to reduce reliance on U.S. software and cloud services and shift to European “sovereign technology.” The trend is linked to concerns over the 2018 U.S. CLOUD Act, which can require U.S. firms to provide access to data stored abroad. France is moving health data off Microsoft Azure to a sovereign cloud provider, and the European Commission has awarded sovereign cloud contracts to several European firms.
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U.S., China step up next-generation LLM race as big tech reshapes coding AI
Competition in large language models is intensifying as leading AI companies in the United States and China release new systems more frequently. OpenAI unveiled GPT-5.5 and began distributing it to paying ChatGPT users, while Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.7. China’s DeepSeek released preview versions of V4 and Moonshot AI unveiled Kimi-K2.6. The coding AI market is also being reshaped by capital-heavy companies, including SpaceX securing an option to acquire Cursor for $60 billion.
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Canada\'s Cohere and Germany\'s Aleph Alpha to merge
Canadian AI company Cohere and German AI company Aleph Alpha have agreed to merge, Handelsblatt reported on April 24, citing government and industry sources. A Reuters report citing Handelsblatt said the combined company aims to provide digital services to companies and public institutions as an alternative to U.S. tech firms. Cohere shareholders will receive about 90 percent of the merged company and Aleph Alpha shareholders about 10 percent. The announcement is expected in Berlin.