Business moves, funding, policy, and market shifts in tech and AI.
From Mexico: Cohere and Aleph Alpha signed a definitive merger — Cohere brand, dual HQs Toronto/Berlin, still needs approvals. ~$20B is the April frame; Schwarz €500M + StackIT as Reuters labels it.
From Mexico: TypeSafe AI’s Jev returns typed probabilistic decisions for software — not chat. $40M seed DCVC-led (Diogo Almeida). Company speed/cost claims labeled; not a Factory twin.
From Mexico: Nuance Labs raises $50M Series A for one full-duplex A/V foundation model — words, tone, gaze, gesture — instead of a stitched ASR/LLM/TTS/face stack. Research preview later 2026, not GA.
From Mexico: OpenAI Foundation’s Public Data for Health pays for biology datasets models lack — grants, not a product ship. First round: ~$40M UNC, OpenAdmet, $500K 1Day Sooner.
From Mexico: Meta One is a paid lane for more Meta AI media generation, Restyle, and Business Agent. Core apps and basic Meta AI stay free. Plans from ~$2.99.
From Mexico: London’s Jack & Jill raised $40M Series A (total $60M) so Jack (candidate) and Jill (employer) only warm-intro when both match — no traditional application.
From Mexico: Google just launched Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking — native speech-to-speech models with async tools, visual grounding, and (for Extended Thinking) background reasoning while the conversation keeps flowing. Rolling out today.
From Mexico: Salesforce and NVIDIA just announced Koa — Salesforce’s first CRM reasoning model for Agentforce, post-trained on Nemotron 3 Super with synthetic CRM workflows. Pilots now; U.S. GA aimed winter 2026.
From Mexico: CNBC says Dutch startup Euclyd raised ~€200M / ~$230–231M Series A co-led by Samsung for a non-GPU inference chip system. Hardware aim 2028 — not shipping now, not proven at scale.
From Mexico: WSJ reports OpenAI quietly bought Los Altos camera-AI startup Glass Imaging in a deal valued above ~$300M. TechCrunch same-day. Neural imaging at shutter — not post-edit fill. Neither company confirmed.