{
  "id": 7827452,
  "title": "Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign a definitive merger agreement; the combined company will operate as Cohere, with Aleph Alpha co-CEO Ilhan Scheer becoming Cohere COO (Leo Marchandon/Reuters)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/16/cohere-and-aleph-alpha-sign-a-definitive-merger-agreement-the",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-09-16T16:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/cohere-aleph-alpha-combine-target-enterprise-ai-market-2026-09-16/"
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  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Canada's Cohere and Germany's Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger agreement on Wednesday, the AI companies said.",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}