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20 stories about AI
משרדי אנבידיה NVIDIA ביוקנעם

Nvidia secures 29,000 sqm in Yokneam as Israeli build-out accelerates

05.02.26|Golan Hazani
The chipmaker signs a $73 million, 10-year lease with Melisron, expanding its local footprint in addition to the planned 10,000-employee campus in Kiryat Tivon.
Chaim Schiff, CEO of Elephant Secondary Market Platform.

“The UAV sector holds the highest potential for civilian adaptation and ultimately, the future of autonomous transportation”

05.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Chaim Schiff, CEO of Elephant Secondary Market Platform, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 

Ilya Sutskever’s Safe Superintelligence engineer walks away to fix what AI breaks

05.02.26|CTech
Shahar Papini left the $32 billion research lab to co-found Attestable, which has raised $18.5 million to verify AI models, prompts and outputs. 
A stick-figure worker at a desk, split between a muted corporate environment with a subtle surveillance eye on the left and a colorful, glowing AI interface on the right, representing the tension between workplace monitoring and the appeal of public AI tools.

Inside the struggle to control employees' AI use

04.02.26|Zachy Hennessey
The rise of Shadow AI pits corporate security against workplace reality.
Eyal Bino 97212

“Israeli tech post-October 7th could not be in a better position”

04.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Eyal Bino, Founding Partner at 97212 Ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
(From left): Frederic Landau, Aaron Applbaum and  Yoav Knoll.

“It may feel uneasy, but letting software act independently isn’t optional, it’s necessary for survival today”

04.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Frederic Landau, general partner at Kinetica, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Lior Segal (left) and Yaniv Jacobi, Managing partners at Horizon Capital.

“Almost anything proven under battlefield conditions can become a commercial product once it’s translated into civilian workflows”

03.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Yaniv Jacobi and Lior Segal, Managing Partners at Horizon Capital, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Daniel Roditi, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Meron Capital.

“Global LPs now assume Israeli founders can operate through geopolitical shocks, volatility, operational chaos, and even war”

02.02.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Daniel Roditi, Co-founder and Managing Partner at Meron Capital, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
עובדי הייטק Founder Mode עבודה מהבית

Innovation or exhaustion? The human cost of tech’s AI reset

02.02.26|Maayan Manela
As companies demand founder-level ownership and round-the-clock availability, AI is raising productivity, and the risk of burnout.
מולטבוק Moltbook רשת חברתית לסוכני AI

When the user is no longer human: The bot social network is the internet’s watershed moment

02.02.26|Yaniv Golan
The Moltbook phenomenon marks the transition from Generative AI to Agentic AI, and Israel’s opportunity is to become the responsible adult, in both infrastructure and governance. 
מנכ"ל אפל טים קוק מציג את משקפי אפל ויז'ן פרו באירוע הפתיחה של כנס המפתחים WWDC2023

What made Q.ai worth $1.5 billion to Apple

30.01.26|Omer Kabir
How a secretive deep-tech company fit precisely into Apple’s hardware and AI strategy.
לוגו אפל apple

Why Apple paid billions for a company with no revenue

30.01.26|Meir Orbach
Q.ai’s technology and talent explain the logic behind the deal.
מנכ"ל אפל טים קוק מחזיק אייפון 17 פרו ב אירוע ההשקה 9.9.25

Apple acquires secretive Israeli AI startup Q.ai for $1.5 billion

29.01.26|Omer Kabir
The little-known company, led by PrimeSense founder Aviad Maizels, has been working on whispered speech and advanced audio technologies for wearable devices.
טאואר אינטל

Tower Semiconductor surges to $15 billion valuation, tripling Intel’s abandoned bid

29.01.26|CTech
Shares are up more than 160% in six months as investors embrace the AI infrastructure story. 
Lior Prosor, General Partner at Deep33.

“If productivity and abundance reach sufficient scale, society will gradually redefine why we work, what work means, and how value is created”

29.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Lior Prosor, General Partner at Deep33, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Rowan Trollope, Redis CEO

Redis passes $300M in annualized recurring revenue

28.01.26|Corporate Service
Demand for AI infrastructure helping drive growth, momentum for the real-time data leader
Liran Grinberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Team8.

"Geopolitical shifts reinforce that Israeli tech is fundamentally resilient, and the innovation engine here is hard to replicate"

28.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Liran Grinberg, Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Team8, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Zack Fagan, Partner at Earth & Beyond Ventures.

"Israel’s competitive advantage has never been abstract creativity alone; it has been the ability to innovate under constraint and to overcome the status quo."

28.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Zack Fagan, Partner at Earth & Beyond Ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
יעקב ויינשטיין

“A Great Depression-scale recession is coming by the end of the decade”

28.01.26|Sophie Shulman
Veteran fund manager Yaakov Weinstein explains why markets are nearing the end of a long cycle and why today’s growth fuel will eventually run out.
צוות קמליו

AnyVision alumni return with $10 million Seed round for legal AI startup

27.01.26|Meir Orbach
Chamelio targets knowledge loss inside corporate legal departments and has already added approximately 100 customers across the U.S., Israel, and other markets, including the likes of Wiz, WSC Sports, Global-e, Lightricks, Fiverr and Cellebrite.