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עירא בלסקי ו איציק אלבז

Unicorn Artlist to cut 200 jobs, 40% of workforce, despite surpassing $300 million ARR

16.06.26|Meir Orbach

Israeli creative-tech company says it is restructuring around an AI-native operating model despite rapid growth.

כנס גוגל AI - נגה יעקבי , דורה סולוביי

"I no longer grade tests late into the night. I have AI agents that do it for me"

16.06.26|Hagay Gilboa

Dora Solovey, an artificial intelligence teacher and AI implementer at the ORT school system, spoke at a panel held as part of Google's AI Week and Calcalist. According to her, "homework is not dead, it's just changed its face." Noga Jacobi, English teacher at the RAG: "In the future, there will be AI tools that function like a private tutor who personally accompanies each student."

כנס גוגל AI - שחר בנזרף , שלי קנייב וידאו

"You should arrive at the exam properly prepared, not the AI"

16.06.26|Tomer Hadar

Sheli Kanaev‏, a business administration student at Reichman University, said at Calcalist and Google's AI Week that AI tools can summarize lessons, build presentations and create podcasts, but not replace critical thinking. Shachar Ben-Zeref, a data engineering student at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU): "In the test, we will be on the edge alone"

Mobileye robotaxi illustration

Mobileye enters robotaxi race with independent service plan

16.06.26|Sophie Shulman

Shashua moves beyond partnerships to compete directly with Waymo, Tesla, and Amazon.

Mapping the hidden job market of Startup Nation

16.06.26|Amy Shapiro

After watching his talented friends lose their jobs and struggle over next steps, Nir Kosover and his ScaleFox co-founders bootstrapped a side project to create a first-of-its-kind, comprehensively indexed view of the Israeli high-tech job market to counteract the anxious narrative surrounding the state of Startup Nation.

כנס גוגל AI - שירן פרן , אדם פישר , עומר קפלן וידאו

"AI gives Israeli chutzpah superpowers"

16.06.26|Maya Nahum Shahal

Shiran Faran, Director of Product Solutions & Partners at Google Israel, was speaking during a panel on leadership in the AI era held as part of Google and Calcalist's AI Week. Adam Fisher, a partner at Bessemer, argued that Israelis' advantage lies in their tendency to "act and keep moving forward" even in times of crisis, while Omer Kaplan, co-founder and CEO of ZyG and co-founder of ironSource, said the most successful companies in the AI era are those that deliver customers "an outcome, not just software."

כנס AI גוגל - יונתן אידלסהיים מנכ״ל Natural Intelligence

"Consumers today expect more information, more engagement with platforms, and are less satisfied with traditional links"

15.06.26|Tomer Hadar

Jonathan Edelshaim, CEO of Natural Intelligence, said at Calcalist and Google’s AI Week that AI is changing consumers’ decision-making process: “The user comes to us more informed, after being exposed to more information.”

כנס גוגל AI עדינה אקשטיין

"Only an insurance product built with AI can truly insure AI"

15.06.26|Tomer Hadar

Adina Eckstein, COO of Lemonade, said at Calcalist and Google’s AI Week that 98% of the company’s policies are sold using artificial intelligence and more than 60% of claims are handled by it. On the collaboration with Tesla: “Usually, insurance is about a person. Here, I insure software.”

כנס AI גוגל - סתיו לוי נוימרק מייסדת משותפת ומנכל"ית Alta, רפאל בראשי מייסד משותף ומנכ"ל Notch ספי צרפתי ראש תחום שותפויות סטארטאפים וקרנות Google ישראל וידאו

"If your pitch doesn't work when you take the word AI out of it, your product isn't good"

15.06.26|Maya Nahum Shahal

At Calcalist and Google’s AI Week, Notch co-founder and CEO Rafael Broshi argued that the strongest AI startups will build their moats around regulation, domain expertise, and solving the “last-mile” challenges of enterprise adoption. Alta co-founder and CEO Stav Levi Neumark said: “This is both the best and the worst time to start a startup.”

פרופ ינאי עופרן מוסף

"In biotechnology, it's billions of dollars, or zero"

15.06.26|Diana Bahur-Nir

Professor Yanay Ofran on the high-stakes race to develop AI-designed medicines for peanut allergies, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.

כנס גוגל AI - אלית בן בסט נוריאל

“52% of organizations already using generative AI have implemented AI agents in their day-to-day operations”

14.06.26|Maya Nahum Shahal

Speaking at Google and Calcalist's AI Week, Elit Ben Basat Nuriel, Head of Cloud Marketing at Google Israel, added that "we are at the most dramatic turning point since generative artificial intelligence entered our lives."

מייסד ומנכ"ל אנתרופיק דריו אמודיי

Why did the White House pull Anthropic's most powerful AI model?

14.06.26|Omer Kabir

The administration cites national security. Critics see a troubling mix of politics, AI rivalry, and government power.

Jedify founders

Jedify raises $24 million Series A to build context layer for enterprise AI

The startup says fragmented business data is blocking deployment of agentic AI systems.

מגזין נדל"ן 9.9.24 מצלמות מעקב שהוצבו במוסקבה במסגרת פרויקט העיר הבטוחה

How Israel’s AI surveillance breakthrough in Iran is reshaping global intelligence

From Conntour to Airis, Israeli startups are driving a shift in how governments analyze vast video networks.

צוות עובדי מרכז הפיתוח של היילו HAILO ב תל אביב

Former unicorn Hailo cuts 50% of workforce amid funding pressure and strategic reset

08.06.26|Meir Orbach

Israeli semiconductor company lays off 110 employees while shifting focus toward drones, robotics, and Physical AI.

The next great opportunity for Israeli startups is hidden inside the AI supply chain

08.06.26|Lian Swirsky

The race to build frontier AI models is increasingly concentrated among a handful of giants. The race to remove the bottlenecks holding AI back is far more open.

שוטר עם מצלמת מהירות

AI startup fighting traffic fines faces shutdown by Israel’s bar association

LoFrayer has been given 72 hours to shut down its AI platform or face a court injunction over claims it is practicing law without a license.

BiblioTech Nir Kozlovsky

CTech’s Book Review: How the AI revolution is bringing the price of human knowledge close to zero (and what to do about it)

07.06.26|Nir Kozlovsky

Nir Kozlovsky, a HealthTech co-founder, audio industry specialist and freelance consultant, shares insights after reading “Decoupling Intelligence”, by David Solomon.

מייסדי willow מימין שלו שליט עידן שטרית אייל בן עזרא

Wix CEO backs Willow as startup raises $7 million for AI agent control layer

04.06.26|Meir Orbach

Platform aims to bring visibility and governance to enterprise AI deployments.

מימין מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן ומייסד ומנכ"ל אנתרופיק אנת'רופיק דריו אמודיי

The trillion-dollar AI buildout is creating a cash crunch

04.06.26|Omer Kabir

From Anthropic's IPO plans to Google's $80 billion share sale, even the world's richest tech companies are scrambling to finance the AI race.