Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha, with the blessing of their governments, in a bid to offer a sovereign alternative to enterprises in an AI landscape dominated by American players. “Sovereign AI” refers to systems where companies and governments retain full control over their own data …

Climate tech startups are capital intensive, timelines are long, and the technology is often considered “first of its kind. ” What’s more, a key value proposition is addressing pollution — an externality that is, at best, poorly priced by the market. Those aren’t the qualities stock pickers tend to favor. …

In a letter to the residents of Tumbler Ridge, Canada, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said he is “deeply sorry” that his company failed to alert law enforcement about the suspect in a recent mass shooting. After police identified 18-year-old Jesse Van Rootselaar as a suspected shooter who allegedly killed eight …

Maine Governor Janet Mills has vetoed a bill that would have temporarily brought permits for new data centers to a halt. If it had become law, L. 307 would have imposed the country’s first statewide moratorium on new data centers — lasting, in this case, until November 1, 2027. The …

In a recent experiment, Anthropic created a classified marketplace where AI agents represented both buyers and sellers, striking real deals for real goods and real money. The company admitted this test — which it called Project Deal — was only “a pilot experiment with a self-selected participant pool” of 69 …

A social media influencer has died six days after a car hit her and other pedestrians outside a nightclub in central London. Klaudia Zakrzewska, from Essex, was involved in the incident on Argyll Street in Soho at 04:30 BST on 19 April. She was taken to hospital but died on …

I brought my husband back for his funeral as a hologram When Pam Cronrath's husband Bill died last year, after nearly 60 years of marriage, she knew what she wanted to do, but not exactly how. "I promised him a super wake," she told the BBC. What she didn't expect …

A 'bruising week' for Sir Keir and 'Order Andrew to give evidence' A number of the first editions of the Sunday papers focus on Sir Keir Starmer - they were printed before the news of the shooting near the White House. The Sunday Times leads on its interview with the …

Donald Trump cancelled a planned trip by US officials to Pakistan for talks on the Iran war on Saturday, shortly after Tehran's delegation had left Islamabad. The US president said special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner would be wasting "too much time", adding that if Iran wanted to …

'We have no sleep': What it's like to run a round-the-clock celebrity fan page "I feel like we have no sleep - we're at this 24 hours a day, seven days a week," says 25-year-old Canadian, Jay. "We're always posting. " He's a researcher for the social media account Buzzing …