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מנכ"ל ומייסד ,OpenAI מפתחת ChatGPT סם אלטמן

OpenAI ramps up Israel expansion with former AWS executive

29.07.26|Sophie Shulman
Eliran Ben David joins the company as it introduces new AI tools to Israeli startups and recruits for a dedicated local startup partnerships role.
סם אלטמן כמנכ"ל חברת OpenAI לצד בית חולים בית החולים שיבא תל השומר

From Pfizer to OpenAI: Why Israel’s medical data is becoming a global technology asset

29.07.26|Elihay Vidal
Decades of digital health records have turned Israel into an attractive laboratory for AI companies, but experts warn that innovation must be balanced with patient trust and privacy.
מייסדי גראונדקאבר groundcover מימין שחר אזולאי ו יחזקאל רבינוביץ'

“We want to replace Datadog”: groundcover raises $100 million at $500 million valuation as AI reshapes observability

29.07.26|Meir Orbach
The Israeli startup says traditional monitoring platforms were not built for the explosion of data generated by cloud and AI systems. The Series C brings groundcover’s total funding to $160 million as it targets a market dominated by legacy giants. 
עובדי Encore AI

Encore AI raises $30 million Series A to teach AI agents how top employees work

29.07.26|Meir Orbach
Formerly known as Insait, the Israeli startup analyzes millions of customer interactions to turn the best sales and service practices into autonomous AI agents. 
מייסדי מודוס, דניאל שמעוני (מימין) ותומר מסיקה

Former Cyera and Lusha executives launch Modus with $10 million Seed round

29.07.26|Meir Orbach
The startup aims to solve the "Context Gap" that prevents enterprise AI agents from delivering accurate, cost-effective results.
Micha Kaufman

Fiverr shares plunge as AI disruption forces a major outlook cut

29.07.26|Sophie Shulman, CTech
The freelance marketplace missed earnings expectations and lowered its 2026 forecast as generative AI reshapes demand for basic digital services.
סם אלטמן מייסד OpenAI ומנכ"ל צ'אט ג'יפיטי ChatGPT

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent breached second company during hacking spree

29.07.26|Reuters
The agent compromised a Modal Labs customer while targeting Hugging Face, expanding the scope of an incident that has intensified fears over autonomous AI systems.
ג'נסן הואנג מנכ"ל ומייסד אנבידיה ב תערוכת CES 2026

The AI bubble fears return as chip stocks face their latest reality check

28.07.26|Omer Kabir
Investors are not abandoning artificial intelligence, but they are questioning whether hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure spending can generate sufficient returns.
מייסדי הרמוני, ניצן שפירא (מימין) ורן רבנזפט

After selling Epsagon to Cisco for $500 million, founders return with AI enterprise startup Harmony

28.07.26|Meir Orbach
The Israeli company raised $34 million in Seed funding from Lightspeed and others to automate the thousands of internal requests that still burden corporate teams.
אוניברסיטה הטכניון חיפה

Israel’s Technion and Tel Aviv University break into global top 30 AI rankings

28.07.26|Shahar Ilan
A new global index ranks the Technion No. 25 worldwide for AI production capacity and eighth for graduates who found AI companies, highlighting Israel’s growing role in developing AI talent and startups.
אנבידיה

Apple retakes world's most valuable company as AI doubts knock Nvidia

28.07.26|Shir Reiter
The iPhone maker climbed to a record $4.95 trillion valuation after investors questioned whether the AI infrastructure boom can deliver the returns markets have priced in.
דוכן של מונשוט ב סין

The AI cold war escalates as China and U.S. clash over Moonshot’s Kimi model

28.07.26|Reuters, CTech
Washington accuses the Chinese startup of copying U.S. technology, while Beijing says the allegations are an attempt to contain China’s AI ambitions. 
סם אלטמן כמנכ"ל חברת OpenAI לצד בית חולים בית החולים שיבא תל השומר

OpenAI picks Israel's Sheba as first hospital outside the U.S. for healthcare AI

28.07.26|Sophie Shulman
The strategic partnership gives Sheba Medical Center early access to OpenAI's healthcare AI models, allowing physicians to test cutting-edge clinical tools before they are rolled out more broadly. 
מיקרוסופט קמפוס הרצליה

Microsoft’s Israeli cyber team helps build the company’s next-generation AI defense system

27.07.26|Omer Kabir
Perception combines AI models and autonomous agents to detect and remediate vulnerabilities as Microsoft prepares for a future of faster, AI-powered attacks. 
Enigma founders

He joined Check Point at 16. Now Jonathan Jacobi has raised one of Israel’s biggest seed rounds to build the AI brain for robots

27.07.26|Allon Sinai
The 26-year-old Enigma co-founder, who later became the youngest employee in the history of Microsoft and Check Point, has raised $71 million to develop the AI models and software that could turn robots into adaptable, intelligent machines.
Enigma founders

Israeli AI robotics startup Enigma emerges from stealth with $71 million Seed round

27.07.26|CTech
Founded by former Unit 8200 researchers, Enigma is developing foundation AI models designed to make robots more intelligent and easier to deploy. 
מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן מרץ 2026

OpenAI took days to realize its own AI agent breached Hugging Face

27.07.26|Reuters, CTech
The incident raises fresh questions about how companies monitor increasingly autonomous AI systems as they race to deploy more capable models.
Efrat Shuster

China just dropped a 2.8-trillion-parameter bomb on the AI race

27.07.26|Efrat Shuster
The next stage of the AI race will not be decided only by who builds the smartest model. It will also be decided by which models companies trust enough to embed in their products and operations. 
אדם פישר שותף בקרן בסמר 2025

The PC productivity paradox, again

27.07.26|Adam Fisher
Companies risk repeating the mistakes of the PC era by layering AI onto outdated processes. The winners will be those that rebuild their organizations around autonomous workflows.
מנכ"ל אנבידיה ג'נסן הואנג 2 בתערוכת CES בלאס וגאס 6.1.26

Nvidia and Microsoft push Washington to protect open AI models

26.07.26|Reuters, CTech
Tech giants argue that restricting open-source AI could hurt competition and slow innovation, as lawmakers debate how to regulate increasingly powerful systems.