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20 stories about AI
Guy Stern, Global CISO at Alice.

“Staying current is most of the job, along with understanding how the AI models actually reason”

08.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Guy Stern, Global CISO at Alice, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why he sees AI's real value as amplifying human judgment, not replacing it.
מייסד משותף ו מנכ"ל מיסטרל AI ארתור מנש 2.11.23

Mistral raises $3.5 billion at $24 billion valuation in Europe’s biggest private tech funding round

08.09.26|CTech
The French company says it is on track for $1 billion in annual recurring revenue and is seeing growth in Asia and North America. The new capital will fund models and frontier research as Mistral competes with much larger American rivals. 
מייסדי דקארט דין לייטרסדורף ו משה שלו

Anthropic drops plans to acquire Israeli AI startup Decart

08.09.26|CTech
The companies had discussed a transaction worth roughly $6 billion, but the Claude maker ultimately decided against buying the company after reviewing its business and technology.
Noam Brosh, CISO at UVeye.

“Security cannot simply act as a roadblock, because that stops the momentum that leadership demands”

07.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Noam Brosh, CISO at UVeye, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why the risk he's most focused on isn't technical anymore, it's how fast non-technical teams are deploying agents of their own. 
תל אביב מגדל עזריאלי מרכז עזריאלי

Israel’s AI industry captures 89% of high-tech investment as funding surges to $11.8 billion

07.09.26|Meir Orbach
Nearly 3,000 AI companies are now operating in Israel, with late-stage funding accounting for more than half of the capital raised in 2025, according to a new report.
Nir Mishal, CISO at Orca Security.

"Agentic AI is about to recreate the identity sprawl problem a hundredfold"

06.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Nir Mishal, CISO at Orca Security, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why identity sprawl, not a rogue model, is the failure mode he’s most worried about.
Amir Shavit Zafran

Zafran: “AI is the biggest force multiplier security researchers have ever had”

06.09.26|Amy Shapiro
Amir Shavitt, Head of Research at Zafran, explains how the balance of power between attackers and defenders is changing as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.
מייסדי וונדרפול בר וינקלר ו רועי ללזר

Wonderful is growing like Wiz, but its business is very different

06.09.26|Sophie Shulman
The Israeli AI startup has reached a $5 billion valuation and a $70 million revenue run rate in less than two years, but its economics look far less like those of a traditional software company.
OpenAI

OpenAI admits its AI agents used a wiki as a springboard for rogue behavior

05.09.26|CTech
The disclosure follows a Reuters report that OpenAI agents took over a German wiki and used it for cheating during tests and other unintended behavior. The company says the industry still lacks clear standards for disclosing AI misalignment.
מייסד ומנכ"ל אנתרופיק דריו אמודיי

Anthropic pushes back IPO as investors await one of AI’s biggest public-market tests

05.09.26|CTech
The company is now expected to file its prospectus in late September and begin marketing the offering no earlier than mid-October, with investors discussing a potential valuation of up to $2 trillion.
Yehuda Niv

The biggest opportunity is not in AI infrastructure. It's in applications.

05.09.26|Yehuda Niv
The next generation of AI winners may be companies that use the new infrastructure not just to sell software, but to rebuild entire service industries with software-like economics. 
Arick Goomanovsky

More AI agents can mean more work for humans

05.09.26|Arick Goomanovsky
As companies add more autonomous tools, employees are increasingly becoming the ones who move context, coordinate handoffs and keep disconnected AI systems working together. 
משרדי לייבפרסון ב רעננה

LivePerson, once worth $4.7 billion, agrees to $43 million sale to SoundHound

03.09.26|Almog Azar
The digital customer service pioneer is ending its run as an independent company after a 99% collapse in its market value. SoundHound will acquire the company and its remaining customers while gaining access to its digital voice technology.
Tamir Ishay Sharbat Zenity

Zenity: “The threat AI creates is not about what AI models say, but about what agents do”

03.09.26|Amy Shapiro
Tamir Ishay Sharbat, Director of Security Research at Zenity, explores what constitutes true innovation in AI security as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.
Eli Hakimov, CISO at Immunai.

“This is a shadow workforce, autonomous, fast, and invisible, and it scales in a way shadow IT never did”

03.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Eli Hakimov, CISO at Immunai, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why the agents that worry him most aren't the ones his team adopted, but the ones nobody vetted.
Ido Shtrauch Conifers AI

Conifers: “The attacker can walk away, and that’s what we’re least ready for”

02.09.26|Amy Shapiro
Ido Shtrauch, Security Research Team Lead at Conifers AI, details how threat actors are adapting to a world where companies use AI to analyze their security alerts, as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.