AI

20 stories about AI
Shahar Mann, CEO, Backslash Duns & Bradstreet

Your AI Agent Activates Capabilities Without Your Knowledge, Thereby Endangering the Organization Even Without a Malicious Attack

19.10.26|In collaboration with Dun's 100
Every employee today enjoys access to AI tools, particularly those that enable code generation. However, this exposes the organization to severe cyber threats and may even cause AI agents to perform tasks other than those defined for them
ערן זינמן ו רועי מן מייסדי מאנדיי

Monday’s AI makeover is pushing managers toward the exit

19.10.26|Sophie Shulman
Five senior executives are leaving as the software company reshapes its organization and seeks to cut management layers. The restructuring comes as monday.com tries to convince investors that its AI strategy can reverse a 37% share-price decline this year.
Itai Margalit

Salesforce says AI agents generated $88 million in sales pipeline by reaching leads its staff could not handle

18.10.26|CTech
The company says its agents helped contact potential customers who had previously gone unanswered.
כנס ג'רני - גיגי לוי וויס שותף מייסד בקרן ההון סיכון NFX

“Your org chart is your problem today”: NFX’s Gigi Levy-Weiss on re-founding companies for AI

16.10.26|Zachy Hennessey
Using AI tools isn’t the same as being an AI-native company, the NFX co-founding partner told founders and executives, and their own thinking may be the biggest constraint.
כנס ג'רני - פאנל נתי גינור  אלי ברדה  איתי בן זאב ד"ר עדי הורוויץ לביא  חגי שרייבר עו"ד גלעד זוהרי שותף

AI budgets are tripling, and executives are changing how they measure success

16.10.26|Zachy Hennessey
Executives from EY, Bank Hapoalim, HiBob, Check Point and Qumra Capital described soaring AI spend, a shift to business KPIs, and why the people side of transformation is the hard part.
מייקל אייזנברג על הפודיום ואז מימין: ג׳רמי סוארד, אורן זאב, יהלי רוטנברג, מאי וולטר, דרור נחומי, ליאת נדאי ערד, נתי גינור, דורית דור

“We will see Bitcoin disappear within five to ten years due to quantum computing”

16.10.26|Meir Orbach
Qbeat Ventures co-founder Dorit Dor made the prediction at EY’s Journey conference, where Israeli tech and investment executives also forecast AI judges, a new wave of technology giants and major changes to healthcare and financial markets.
גיל שויד מנועי הכסף צק פוינט

Gil Shwed: “I don’t see the economic models that justify AI investments on this scale”

15.10.26|Shay Salinas
The Check Point executive chairman questions the economics behind the hundreds of billions of dollars flowing into AI infrastructure, even as he sees enormous potential in the technology.
Geneiz founders

One-year-old Israeli AI startup with six employees acquired for estimated $100 million

13.10.26|Elihay Vidal
Rocket Software has acquired Geniez AI, whose technology uses AI agents to help enterprises manage and modernize mainframe systems.
EPIC Center

Applied Materials opens a $5 billion center to help build the next generation of AI chips

13.10.26|CTech
The EPIC Center is designed to bring chipmakers, equipment suppliers and university researchers together to develop manufacturing technologies in parallel, rather than through the traditional sequence of research and production handoffs. 
מיקרוסופט קמפוס הרצליה

Microsoft Israel cuts hit AI agent team, with 50 Copilot Studio employees summoned to pre-dismissal hearings

12.10.26|Meir Orbach
The move is part of a global organizational shift affecting the Israeli R&D center. About half of the employees are expected to remain in roles within the center.
מגזין 100 משפיעים ומשפיעות 2025 ליפ בו טאן מנכ"ל אינטל

Intel’s Lip-Bu Tan says AI companies will have to prove the returns justify the spending

12.10.26|CTech
The Intel chief expects AI demand to remain strong over the next two to three years, but says financing costs and return on investment are key challenges. Meanwhile, cheaper Chinese models are finding users, adding pressure to an industry built around increasingly expensive systems.
מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן בכנס המפתחים של החברה

The $20 billion gap that shook AI stocks reveals a problem with the industry’s numbers

11.10.26|Omer Kabir
OpenAI says its annualized revenue run rate is about $50 billion, not the $70 billion cited in earlier reports. The dispute highlights how a widely followed metric can shape investor sentiment even when the underlying figures are difficult to compare.