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France-based Cegid and Silae plan to merge in a transaction expected to value the combined group at more than 10bn.

Analog Devices has reached an agreement to acquire Alif Semiconductor in an all-cash transaction valued at $1.35bn.

Accenture and Google Cloud have announced the creation of the Accenture Gemini Enterprise Business Group, a global initiative.

Cognition AI, a US-based AI company, has raised $2bn in a Series E funding round, bringing its valuation to $48bn.

Palantir names Nebius as its preferred sovereign AI infrastructure partner, with eligible customers to access compute, cloud and inference.

Anthropic has decided not to proceed with the acquisition of frontier AI lab Decart AI, people familiar with the matter said.

Arm has introduced two compute platforms, one for data centre silicon aimed at agentic AI and one for mobile devices.

Mistral has completed a 3bn ($3.48bn) Series D funding round, putting the AI company's post-money valuation at more than 21bn ($24.4bn).

Quantum Foundry Copenhagen and the Novo Nordisk Foundation have announced plans for a new 5,300m² quantum chip fabrication facility.

NanoBridge Semiconductor has entered into an agreement with Siemens to use its Precision FPGA Synthesis tool for FPGA development.