Native AI Briefing #1 — 26.04.2026

26.04.2026

strategy

Why Cohere is merging with Aleph Alpha

Canadian AI startup Cohere is taking over Germany-based Aleph Alpha with support from Lidl’s owner, Schwarz Group. With ...

TechCrunch AI

agentic

OpenClaw gives users yet another reason to be freaked out about security

The viral AI agentic tool let attackers silently gain admin unauthenticated access.

Ars Technica AI

tools

Alibaba: with new Qwen models three deployment profiles in parallel

How to use the three new models released within a few days by Alibaba: Qwen 3.6-Max-Preview, the closed-weight flagship ...

AI4Business Italy

startups

Verda raises $117M, Aleph Alpha to be acquired, and solving the quantum bottleneck

This week, we tracked more than 65 tech funding deals worth over €632 million and over 5 exits, M&A transactions, rumour...

Tech.eu

startups

Aleph Alpha to be acquired by Cohere

German AI startup Aleph Alpha is to be acquired by Canadian AI lab Cohere, creating a business that will position itself...

Tech.eu

agentic

AI Weekly Issue #478: The machines are hacking back — and so is everyone else

An AI agent went rogue at Meta and triggered a Sev 1. Anthropic shipped its own source code to npm by accident — then ac...

AI Weekly