Aidan Gomez

2026-09-16

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere and Aleph Alpha sign deal to create transatlantic 'sovereign AI' company

Cohere and Germany’s Aleph Alpha have signed a definitive business combination agreement to combine operations and position the unified company as a transatlantic sovereign AI provider, subject to final regulatory approvals expected later this year. The combined firm will be dual-headquartered in Berlin and Toronto, expand to over 1,000 employees, keep Aleph Alpha’s Heidelberg research centre, appoint Ilhan Scheer as Cohere COO and Samuel Weinbach as Cohere Chief Research Officer, and deepen a partnership with Schwarz Digits to deliver sovereign AI on STACKIT.

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2026-09-16

COMPANIES · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere partners with University of Toronto to integrate North into campus-wide AI platform

Cohere and the University of Toronto announced a multi-year partnership to integrate Cohere’s privately deployable agentic AI platform, North, as an orchestration layer in U of T’s forthcoming enterprise-wide AI platform. The collaboration will support teaching, research, student services and administration, back the university’s AI Kitchen evaluation environment, and emphasize secure, university-controlled handling of sensitive data.

6.0

2026-09-16

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · Cohere

Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez warns against letting dominant AI labs set safety rules, criticizes Anthropic roadmap

In a blog post, Cohere co-founder and CEO Aidan Gomez argues that allowing a small number of market-dominant AI companies to define safety standards and seek antitrust exemptions would risk creating a cartel that protects incumbents and limits competition. Gomez supports independent review of powerful systems but warns that proposals like the roadmap published by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei raise questions about who writes standards and who gets to participate; he cites past regulatory failures (SEC-designated bond-rating firms and Europe's Motor Vehicle Block Exemption) as cautionary examples.

6.0

2026-09-15

REGULATION · 1 SOURCE · The Decoder

Critics doubt Big AI’s proposed slowdown is really about safety

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have proposed slowing frontier AI development citing safety concerns, but figures across industry and politics are pushing back. Cohere CEO Aidan Gomez called the initiative a "cartel by another name," and both the White House and Donald Trump have opposed the move, according to reporting by The Decoder.

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