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“We are digital fighters”: Inside Israel’s elite security research teams

09.08.26|Amy Shapiro, Elihay Vidal
Israel’s cyber companies are relying on small, highly specialized teams trained to think like attackers, find vulnerabilities and stay ahead of a threat landscape increasingly accelerated by AI.
Didi Gurfinkel

AI can produce the answer. It can’t own the decision.

08.08.26|Didi Gurfinkel
As AI produces forecasts, reports and analysis in seconds, the critical skill is no longer generating the output. It is knowing which assumptions to challenge before the business acts on it. 
מוסף עצמאות מנהלים מייסדי Irregular דן להב ו עומר נבו

The Israeli startup testing the limits of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta’s models

07.08.26|Meir Orbach
Irregular’s experiments reveal a fundamental challenge: keeping increasingly capable AI systems inside their intended boundaries.
ערן זינמן ו רועי מן מייסדי מאנדיי

Monday shareholders back $14 million CEO pay packages despite layoffs

06.08.26|Sophie Shulman
Roy Mann and Eran Zinman secure a near doubling of compensation as the company faces slowing growth, a falling share price, and a 620-person workforce reduction.
פרוסת סיליקון נכנסת ל מכונת מדידה של נובה בתהליך ייצור שבבים

Nova tops $250 million in quarterly revenue for the first time as AI chip boom continues

06.08.26|Sophie Shulman
The semiconductor equipment maker posted record sales and forecast another quarter of growth as demand from leading chipmakers remains strong.
מייסדי IAIG, עופר בר-אור (מימין) ונימרוד להבי

Former Simplex founders raise $6 million to build dozens of AI-native software companies

06.08.26|Meir Orbach
IAIG believes artificial intelligence has rewritten the economics of software development, allowing startups to compete with established SaaS vendors in weeks rather than years. 
מייסדי Irregular דן להב מנכ"ל ו עומר נבו סמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות

Meta AI model escaped testing environment in latest AI security incident linked to Israeli company Irregular

06.08.26|Omer Kabir
The incident marks the third known case involving the same sandbox configuration error that allowed advanced models from Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to access the internet.
Naomi Bashkansky

23-year-old OpenAI researcher and chess prodigy joins startup chasing AI telepathy

06.08.26|Omer Kabir
After 18 months at OpenAI, Naomi Bashkansky is joining Conduit as a founding researcher, betting that thoughts could become the next interface for communicating with artificial intelligence. 
משה זילברשטיין שותף בקרן Next47

Founders keep asking me if this is a bubble. That's the wrong question.

05.08.26|Moshe Zilberstein
Market cycles rarely result in total collapse or complete stability. What fails is tolerance for unclear value propositions and unproven timelines. What endures is genuine utility, clear monetization, and teams with a precise understanding of the problems they address.
מייסדי Irregular דן להב מנכ"ל ו עומר נבו סמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות

OpenAI and Anthropic incidents put Israeli AI security startup Irregular at center of race to safely test AI agents

05.08.26|CTech
The company was involved in evaluations that exposed a growing industry challenge: creating realistic tests for autonomous AI agents without allowing them to affect real-world systems.
מימין מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן ומייסד ומנכ"ל אנתרופיק אנת'רופיק דריו אמודיי

Anthropic AI created fake online identities during UK safety tests

05.08.26|Reuters, CTech
Britain's AI Security Institute uncovered a series of unauthorized actions by advanced AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI, raising fresh questions about safeguards. 
Sivan Avihud

Before you automate a process with AI, ask whether it should still exist

04.08.26|Sivan Avihud
AI can accelerate almost any workflow. The larger opportunity begins when organizations reconsider the decisions, roles and approval chains that define how work gets done. 
ערן זינמן ו רועי מן מייסדי מאנדיי

Monday seeks to double CEO pay weeks after announcing 620 layoffs

04.08.26|Sophie Shulman
Shareholders will vote on raising compensation for founders Roy Mann and Eran Zinman to about $14 million each despite the company's workforce cuts and falling share price.
אפליקציית ChatGPT של OpenAI

Banks are handing your money to AI. The next question is whether you should trust it

03.08.26|Shaked Green Arava
One Zero, IBI and Fair are connecting customers’ financial data to ChatGPT as banks embrace a future of AI-powered personal finance. But cybersecurity experts warn that convenience could come with unprecedented privacy risks.
June AI founders

Salesforce veterans raise $20 million pre-Seed from Marc Benioff and Michael Dell to tackle AI’s enterprise bottleneck

03.08.26|Meir Orbach
June AI, founded by the team behind Bonobo AI after five years at Salesforce, is building AI agents to automate the costly software implementation work holding back enterprise AI adoption.
צ'אטבוט צ'אטבוטים בינה מלאכותית AI ChatGPT קלוד ג'מיני דיפסיק מיקרוסופט קופיילוט

China's AI competition intensifies as Alibaba unveils its biggest model and DeepSeek drives costs lower

03.08.26|CTech, Reuters
Alibaba is betting on scale with a 2.4-trillion-parameter model, while DeepSeek is focusing on dramatically lower costs as Chinese companies intensify competition with U.S. AI leaders.
אוניברסיטה הטכניון חיפה

Israel's universities produce unicorn founders at one of the highest rates in the world

03.08.26|CTech
New research by Stanford professor Ilya Strebulaev shows Israeli institutions dramatically outperform their size in educating founders of U.S. billion-dollar startups.
Gil Ron

The AI post-hype era will be won below the model layer

02.08.26|Gil Ron
The winners of this era will be the organizations that look below the flashy model layer and focus on the plumbing.
עובדים במתחם דאטה סנטר של מיקרוסופט ב מאונט פלזנט ויסקונסין

AI is replacing programmers, but it can't replace electricians

02.08.26|Omer Kabir
As tech companies pour nearly $700 billion into AI infrastructure, a fierce battle is emerging for the skilled workers building the data centers that power the revolution.