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אורקל רדווד סיטי קליפורניה

Oracle’s co-CEOs got $350 million in equity awards. A year later, the stock had lost half its value

26.09.26|CTech
A year into the new leadership structure and the appointment of Clayton Magouyrk and Michael Sicilia, Oracle has sharply increased AI spending and cut more than 20,000 jobs as its shares fell about 58%.
Joseph (Sefi) Gertz

Trump wants to create an “AI Force”: Gemini incident shows why security must change

26.09.26|Joseph (Sefi) Gertz
"Gemini stopped before significant damage was done," writes Zeroport CEO Joseph (Sefi) Gertz. "Next time, the system on the other side of the boundary could be a production line, a power plant or a defense system with consequences to human safety."
BiblioTech Guy Amar

CTech's Book Review: Value is moving from producing output to validating it

25.09.26|Guy Amar
Guy Amar, Co-Founder & CTO at Group 107, shares insights after reading “The Age of AI: And Our Human Future”, by Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher.
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What happens to Google and Amazon when AI agents become the customers?

25.09.26|Elihay Vidal
"The next phase of the internet could reward companies that control infrastructure, supply and attention," writes CTech Editor-in-Chief Elihay Vidal, "all while putting pressure on businesses built around intermediation."
groundcover on Nasdaq

Groundcover acquires Israeli startup Wand for tens of millions of dollars

24.09.26|Sophie Shulman
The company’s first acquisition combines groundcover’s production visibility with Wand’s technology for automatically optimizing Kubernetes resources.
מטה אורקל רדווד קליפורניה

Oracle co-CEO sells $3.4 million in shares as stock falls 56% one year after his appointment

24.09.26|CTech
Mike Sicilia's sale comes almost exactly one year after he and Clay Magouyrk replaced Safra Catz, as Oracle cuts thousands of jobs while dramatically increasing spending on AI infrastructure.
מוסף עצמאות מנהלים מייסדי Irregular דן להב ו עומר נבו

After AI models escaped testing environments, Irregular seeks $1.5 billion valuation

23.09.26|Allon Sinai
The Israeli security startup is in talks to raise more than $100 million from Thrive Capital and Greenoaks in a round that has yet to be finalized.
אורקל Oracle

Oracle’s layoff package puts a hard limit on severance and cuts off unvested stock

23.09.26|CTech
The company’s terms also end eligibility for future corporate bonuses and participation in its employee stock purchase plan.
פרופ' נועה לביא דקאנית בית הספר לממשל וחברה במכללה האקדמית תל־אביב יפו

“The world of work is a zombie concept”

23.09.26|Maya Nahum Shahal
Prof. Noa Lavie argues that the institutions and assumptions built around 20th-century employment are struggling to survive in the age of AI.
מימין מיכאל כגן ג'נסן הואנג נתי דניאל

Nvidia establishes Israeli research group focused on AI for medicine and science

23.09.26|Sophie Shulman
The Applied AI Architecture group has begun recruiting researchers in Israel and will work on AI applications ranging from genomics and drug discovery to new materials. 
אורקל רדווד סיטי קליפורניה

New Oracle layoff data reveals heavy cuts among cloud workers

22.09.26|CTech
The layoffs include developers, engineers and senior managers and come as Oracle raises its restructuring costs to $2.8 billion and dramatically expands AI infrastructure spending.
מטה פאלו אלטו בקליפורניה 3

Palo Alto Networks launches AI service to hunt for cyber vulnerabilities

22.09.26|CTech
The new service uses Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6-Cyber to continuously test corporate systems.
אור הדר, מנהל צוות Growth Marketing במאנדיי, ספי צרפתי, מנהל שותפויות עסקיות ב- Google ישראל

Strategy planning in the age of AI

22.09.26|Seffi Tsarfati
Moving fast is easier than ever in the AI era, but the companies scaling into giants are the ones that didn't skip the strategy work. 
Chamelio founders

Chamelio raises $26 million Series A to replace legacy legal software with AI agents

22.09.26|CTech
Backed by Entrée Capital, the startup is building software designed to execute routine legal workflows and escalate only the cases that require human judgment.
מימין מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן ומייסד ומנכ"ל אנתרופיק אנת'רופיק דריו אמודיי

AI’s biggest labs confront a problem of their own making

21.09.26|Reuters, CTech
As systems become more autonomous, researchers are warning that the companies developing them may not be able to oversee them at the pace of progress.
Tevel Aerobotics Technologies founder Yaniv Maor.

Tevel's flying robots pick fruit that's too high or too risky for people

21.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Series C AgriTech company, tackling a $100B global harvesting problem, is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
Singit founder Michael Peled.

Singit teaches English through the songs people already love

20.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Seed-stage EdTech company is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
Rogue Security co-founder Ariel Dan.

Rogue Security catches malicious AI coding agents in milliseconds

20.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Seed-stage AI security company is one of 21 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
Avital Leshem, Alex Mor, Uri Katz

AI is transforming the hunt for vulnerabilities as the attack surface grows

20.09.26|Amy Shapiro
CTech’s “Security Researchers: Digital Fighters” series surveyed 30 security researchers from Startup Nation’s cyber landscape, revealing how AI is compressing the time and cost of security research but expanding the attack surface.
קלוד אנתרופיק אנת'רופיק 22.8.25

Anthropic considers new model to counter OpenAI’s latest AI push

19.09.26|CTech
The deliberations come days after CEO Dario Amodei called for the industry to slow the development of increasingly capable AI systems.