AI

20 stories about AI
Judah Taub, Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures.

“When Taiwan gets tense, every AI chip gets expensive. Companies building around that constraint will own the next decade.”

27.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Judah Taub, Managing Partner at Hetz Ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.
יאן לקון Yann LeCun לשעבר מדען ה-AI הראשי של מטא

AI pioneer Yann LeCun joins Nexar board as mobility artificial intelligence scales

22.01.26|CTech
LeCun, former chief AI scientist at Meta, launched Advanced Machine Intelligence two months ago to build AI systems grounded in real-world understanding rather than abstract models or simulations.
חדר שרתים ב דאטה סנטר של Nvidia בלונדון

ChatGPT is about to show ads, and the future of OpenAI hangs in the balance

21.01.26|Omer Kabir
A last-resort move could either secure the company’s dominance or hand an advantage to rivals.
מייסדות לגאטו דנה רוכמן ו שלומית טננבאום

Legato raises $7 million to bring AI app creation inside enterprise software

20.01.26|CTech
The startup is betting that business users, not developers, will shape the next phase of SaaS customization.
הכירו את סט הכלים המתקדם לשמירה על העסק מאיומי סייבר

“The long-awaited era of sophisticated AI-generated malware has likely begun”

20.01.26|Omer Kabir
Check Point warns that VoidLink may be only the first glimpse of a far larger, largely invisible threat.
פאגאיה הנפקה נאסד"ק

Pagaya’s AI real estate bet has cost investors nearly $300 million

20.01.26|Almog Azar
The SmartResi fund continues to slide even as broader US property markets post gains.
Nadav Shimoni, Managing Director at A² Ventures.

“The winners won’t be the loudest or the most ambitious but the most focused, efficient, and boringly profitable”

20.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Nadav Shimoni, Managing Director at A² Ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.  
EndoCure Team

EndoCure out to address the misdiagnosis crisis for cancer and endometriosis

20.01.26|CTech
Led by a repeat founder and a world-renowned robotics pioneer, the Israeli startup has developed a robotic platform capable of producing 3D images with 10 times the density of an MRI.
דמות האווטאר של מארק צוקרברג בהכרזה ב 2021 על המטאוורס

Meta’s pivot to AI closes the chapter on the metaverse experiment

19.01.26|Omer Kabir
What was meant to define the next internet instead became a costly detour.
Lee Ben-Gal and Haim Bachar, Investors at lool ventures.

“AI is making output per person the real scaling metric; headcount growth is now often a lagging indicator.”

19.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Lee Ben-Gal and Haim Bachar, Investors at lool ventures, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.  
סם אלטמן מנכ"ל OpenAI פברואר 2025

OpenAI’s revenue hits $20 billion, but the cost of growth looms large

19.01.26|Omer Kabir
A 233% surge in sales masks the immense expense of powering the AI boom. 
Tzahi Weisfeld, co-founder & chairman at Ignite DeepTech.

“Israel’s best companies will still be global, but not hostage to any single platform or jurisdiction.”

18.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Tzahi Weisfeld, co-founder & chairman at Ignite DeepTech, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey.  
Noam Solomon Immunai

Immunai and Bristol Myers Squibb turn to AI to decode immune responses in clinical trials

15.01.26|CTech
The collaboration aims to improve understanding of patient biology in clinical trials.
דריו אמודיי ו סם אלטמן

From Watson to ChatGPT Health: Why AI’s medical moment looks different now

15.01.26|Maayan Cohen-Rozen
Better models, clearer use cases, and a fight over how AI enters the system.
Ran Levitzky, general partner at Magenta Venture Partners.

“Most investors still treat AI and crypto as separate worlds. The real opportunity lies in the infrastructure layer that connects them.”

15.01.26|Zachy Hennessey, Elihay Vidal
Ran Levitzky, general partner at Magenta Venture Partners, joined CTech for its 2026 VC Survey. 
Prof. Lior Zalmanson, Coller School of Management at TAU.

"Israel would become a global AI powerhouse if it moved from inventing to owning and scaling"

14.01.26|Zachy Hennessey
What would it take to make Israel the world’s third AI power? 
רויאל הנסן סגן נשיא ב גוגל מוביל את תחומי הגנת הסייבר הפרטיות והבטיחות בענקית הטכנולוגיה

Google VP: “The only way to win cyberwarfare is to let defenders fix vulnerabilities as fast as attackers exploit them”

13.01.26|Omer Kabir
Royal Hansen says AI is forcing Google to fight hackers with the same tools they use - autonomous agents that find and patch flaws at machine speed.
סיכום שנה ב-AI

A Chinese wake-up call and a Google comeback: AI’s road into 2026

13.01.26|Rani Ben Shaul
Competition intensifies as the industry enters a more fragmented era.
משרדי מאנדיי

From quantum computing to the ‘revenge of the blue collar’: The job market trends shaping 2026

12.01.26|Maayan Manela
Why emotional intelligence, skilled trades and quantum know-how are becoming career-defining assets.
מנכ״ל אנבידיה הואנג ג׳נסן עם רובוטים

An Israeli-Iranian founding team, $107 million, and a bet on the future of Physical AI

12.01.26|CTech
Former Apple engineers from Israel and Iran reunite at Lyte to tackle one of robotics’ hardest problems.