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מייסדי הרמוני, ניצן שפירא (מימין) ורן רבנזפט

After selling Epsagon to Cisco for $500 million, founders return with AI enterprise startup Harmony

28.07.26|Meir Orbach
The Israeli company raised $34 million in Seed funding from Lightspeed and others to automate the thousands of internal requests that still burden corporate teams.
אוניברסיטה הטכניון חיפה

Israel’s Technion and Tel Aviv University break into global top 30 AI rankings

28.07.26|Shahar Ilan
A new global index ranks the Technion No. 25 worldwide for AI production capacity and eighth for graduates who found AI companies, highlighting Israel’s growing role in developing AI talent and startups.
אנבידיה

Apple retakes world's most valuable company as AI doubts knock Nvidia

28.07.26|Shir Reiter
The iPhone maker climbed to a record $4.95 trillion valuation after investors questioned whether the AI infrastructure boom can deliver the returns markets have priced in.
דוכן של מונשוט ב סין

The AI cold war escalates as China and U.S. clash over Moonshot’s Kimi model

28.07.26|Reuters, CTech
Washington accuses the Chinese startup of copying U.S. technology, while Beijing says the allegations are an attempt to contain China’s AI ambitions. 
סם אלטמן כמנכ"ל חברת OpenAI לצד בית חולים בית החולים שיבא תל השומר

OpenAI picks Israel's Sheba as first hospital outside the U.S. for healthcare AI

28.07.26|Sophie Shulman
The strategic partnership gives Sheba Medical Center early access to OpenAI's healthcare AI models, allowing physicians to test cutting-edge clinical tools before they are rolled out more broadly. 
מיקרוסופט קמפוס הרצליה

Microsoft’s Israeli cyber team helps build the company’s next-generation AI defense system

27.07.26|Omer Kabir
Perception combines AI models and autonomous agents to detect and remediate vulnerabilities as Microsoft prepares for a future of faster, AI-powered attacks. 
Enigma founders

He joined Check Point at 16. Now Jonathan Jacobi has raised one of Israel’s biggest seed rounds to build the AI brain for robots

27.07.26|Allon Sinai
The 26-year-old Enigma co-founder, who later became the youngest employee in the history of Microsoft and Check Point, has raised $71 million to develop the AI models and software that could turn robots into adaptable, intelligent machines.
Enigma founders

Israeli AI robotics startup Enigma emerges from stealth with $71 million Seed round

27.07.26|CTech
Founded by former Unit 8200 researchers, Enigma is developing foundation AI models designed to make robots more intelligent and easier to deploy. 
מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן מרץ 2026

OpenAI took days to realize its own AI agent breached Hugging Face

27.07.26|Reuters, CTech
The incident raises fresh questions about how companies monitor increasingly autonomous AI systems as they race to deploy more capable models.
Efrat Shuster

China just dropped a 2.8-trillion-parameter bomb on the AI race

27.07.26|Efrat Shuster
The next stage of the AI race will not be decided only by who builds the smartest model. It will also be decided by which models companies trust enough to embed in their products and operations. 
אדם פישר שותף בקרן בסמר 2025

The PC productivity paradox, again

27.07.26|Adam Fisher
Companies risk repeating the mistakes of the PC era by layering AI onto outdated processes. The winners will be those that rebuild their organizations around autonomous workflows.
מנכ"ל אנבידיה ג'נסן הואנג 2 בתערוכת CES בלאס וגאס 6.1.26

Nvidia and Microsoft push Washington to protect open AI models

26.07.26|Reuters, CTech
Tech giants argue that restricting open-source AI could hurt competition and slow innovation, as lawmakers debate how to regulate increasingly powerful systems. 
אמנון שעשוע

From Mobileye to doubleAI and beyond, Amnon Shashua is preparing for his next act

26.07.26|Meir Orbach
As he steps away from day-to-day management, the entrepreneur behind Israel’s largest technology deals may turn more attention toward his latest AI venture, doubleAI.
עודד טהורי , עינבל נמיר ו דור אטיאס

“A single employee generated a $38,000 AI bill in three hours”

26.07.26|Maya Nahum Shahal
As AI spreads across the enterprise, organizations are scrambling to control token costs without slowing adoption.
מנכ"ל אינטל ליפ-בו טאן אחרי הפגישה עם טראמפ בבית הלבן 11 באוגוסט 25

Intel’s revival begins with a problem most companies want

26.07.26|Omer Kabir
After years of losses and strategic setbacks, Intel says demand for its processors is now exceeding supply, giving Lip-Bu Tan a chance to rebuild the semiconductor giant.
רכב רובוטקסי של וויימו ב ניו יורק

Tesla's once-bullish tone on robotaxis shifts

25.07.26|Reuters, CTech
Elon Musk once promised a nationwide robotaxi network by the end of 2025. Fast forward, and Tesla's stock is facing its largest percentage drop in more than a year.
דאטה סנטר חוות שרתים ב טירת הכרמל של חברת Med אלי מטרה

U.S. sanctions threat against Moonshot AI clouds planned China safety talks

25.07.26|Reuters, CTech
Analysts warn the latest dispute over AI model distillation and export controls could derail efforts to establish common safeguards for increasingly powerful AI systems while deepening the technology rivalry between Washington and Beijing.
מנכ"ל גוגל סונדאר פיצ'אי

Can Big Tech afford the AI race? Alphabet just raised the question

25.07.26|Reuters, CTech
Google's first cash burn despite booming cloud demand puts fresh pressure on Microsoft, Amazon, and Meta to prove AI investments will eventually pay off.
הבית הלבן וושינגטון DC

OpenAI incident fuels calls for a government ‘kill switch’ for AI models

25.07.26|Reuters, CTech
A security test in which an AI agent escaped containment and compromised a startup’s infrastructure has drawn attention from the White House and renewed debate over AI oversight.