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20 stories about AI
אפליקציית ג'מיני של גוגל

Google’s Gemini hacked real companies during a cyber test linked to Israeli startup Irregular

19.09.26|CTech
The model accessed three systems after finding or guessing credentials, exposing the same testing-environment flaw behind incidents involving Anthropic, OpenAI and Meta. 
Factify Chief Revenue Officer Gal Har-Zvi.

Factify builds an audit trail for enterprise AI agents making high-stakes decisions

19.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Tel Aviv company already runs live design partners in banking, insurance and the public sector, and is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
Brandlight founder Imri Marcus.

Brandlight helps enterprise marketers manage how AI recommends their brand

18.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
The Series A company already serves 100+ enterprise customers and is one of 23 startups selected for ScaleUp House's inaugural cohort.
ועידת Mind the Tech ניו יורק אדם סינגולדה

Taboola to acquire Dianomi for up to £27 million as it pushes deeper into finance advertising

18.09.26|CTech
The deal comes as Taboola faces weaker revenue growth but rising profitability, with part of the purchase price tied to Dianomi publishers adopting its commercial terms.
Roy Itzhaky, Yuval Barak, Idan Revivo

As AI takes over the grunt work, security researchers face a higher bar

18.09.26|Amy Shapiro
CTech’s “Security Researchers: Digital Fighters” series surveyed 30 security researchers from Startup Nation’s cyber landscape, revealing how AI is changing their work and reshaping how these teams approach security to stay ahead of the curve.
צוות של סוכני AI עם אנליסטים אנושיים ליכולות מתקדמות

Israel’s Bar Association sets strict rules for lawyers using AI agents

17.09.26|Lital Dobrovitzky, Amir Kurz
Lawyers must supervise autonomous systems closely, protect confidential client information and verify AI-generated legal work before relying on it. 
עומר נבו מייסד שותף וסמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות ב אירגולר Irregular

An AI agent retrained itself without being told to

17.09.26|Omer Kabir
An experiment by Israeli cybersecurity company Irregular found that an autonomous coding agent identified a model problem, fine-tuned the model and deployed the modified version on its own.
גיא טיטונוביץ', מייסד ומנכ"ל CHEQ, לצד קלפי בבחירות הקודמות

CHEQ CEO warns AI-powered bots could distort Israel’s next election

17.09.26|Omer Kabir
Guy Tytunovich says the combination of AI-generated content and increasingly sophisticated bots could make foreign and domestic influence campaigns significantly more powerful than in previous elections. 
Noetive founders

Five months old, Noetive raises $41 million Seed to build AI for the physical economy

16.09.26|Allon Sinai
Israeli founders Amir Frenkel and Dan Barak are betting that AI’s next major frontier lies in factories, logistics operations and other physical businesses. 
מייסדי לורה, רועי מור (משמאל) ויונתן (יונתי) לוין

Sayeret Matkal veterans raise $22 million to teach the world English with AI

16.09.26|Sophie Shulman
Loora says its app has more than 15 million users and annual recurring revenue in the tens of millions of dollars. 
Chris Jones, chief trust & security officer at Axonius.

“AI has not changed what good engineering looks like”

16.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Chris Jones, chief trust & security officer at Axonius, joined CTech to share his thoughts on agentic AI security, and why he thinks agentic AI's biggest risk is exposing which engineering teams already had discipline, not creating some new kind of threat.
מגזין 100 משפיעים ומשפיעות 2025 מארק צוקרברג מנכ"ל מטא

Zuckerberg rejects calls for AI industry-wide slowdown

16.09.26|Reuters
The Meta CEO says individual companies have both the responsibility and incentive to make their models safer without coordinating development.
Galit Levin

Kaltura appoints Galit Levin as SVP Agentic AI Platform

16.09.26|CTech
Levin will lead Kaltura’s shared AI platform for its product teams and for customers building through its services and APIs. 
אורקל Oracle

Oracle is expanding layoffs but its new CFO says “don’t do more with less”

16.09.26|CTech
Hilary Maxson told employees to simplify processes and make clearer choices about where to spend their time and money as Oracle dramatically increases investment in AI infrastructure.
Einat Shimoni, Chief Information Security Officer at Lusha.

“The risk isn't malice, it's specification failure at scale”

15.09.26|Zachy Hennessey
Einat Shimoni, Chief Information Security Officer at Lusha, joined CTech to share her thoughts on agentic AI security, and why she thinks the real danger in agentic AI is agents doing exactly what they were told and not what anyone meant.
מגזין 100 משפיעים 2026 - 3 בינה מלאכותית

AI’s biggest players are calling for safety rules. They could also be building a moat

15.09.26|Omer Kabir
Anthropic, OpenAI and Google are discussing an industry standards body as their leaders warn about the dangers of advanced AI. The push may reflect genuine concerns, but regulation designed by the market leaders could make competition even harder.
מימין סם אלטמן OpenAI דריו אמודיי אנתרופיק אלון מאסק גרוק

Why are AI’s biggest winners suddenly warning about the dangers of winning?

15.09.26|Sophie Shulman
Dario Amodei, Sam Altman and Elon Musk have all called for a slower pace of AI development, leaving investors to weigh genuine safety concerns against the enormous costs and valuations built into the AI boom. 
מנכ"ל אנבידיה ג'נסן הואנג

Trump calls Nvidia CEO on stage, puts AI fears on speakerphone and calls them a "hoax"

15.09.26|CTech
Trump called Jensen Huang during the All-In Summit in Los Angeles and was put on speakerphone, using the surprise exchange to dismiss concerns about AI risks and argue that slowing the industry could play into China’s hands.
Yuval Barak Astelia

Astelia: “Vulnerability does not exist on a server alone”

15.09.26|Amy Shapiro
Yuval Barak, Founding Research Engineer at Astelia, discusses how AI is solving the historical challenge of knowledge transfer as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.
Idan Revivo Island

Island: “AI made it cheap to produce an answer and expensive to trust one”

15.09.26|Amy Shapiro
Idan Revivo, Head of Security Research at Island, explains why human researchers must evolve into research engineers as part of CTech’s Security Researchers series.