Opinion

20 stories about Opinion
Sivan Avihud

Before you automate a process with AI, ask whether it should still exist

04.08.26|Sivan Avihud
AI can accelerate almost any workflow. The larger opportunity begins when organizations reconsider the decisions, roles and approval chains that define how work gets done. 
Gil Ron

The AI post-hype era will be won below the model layer

02.08.26|Gil Ron
The winners of this era will be the organizations that look below the flashy model layer and focus on the plumbing.
Team8

Ownership is not a headcount

01.08.26|Asaf Azulay
The first marketing hires are usually made to solve one urgent quarter. They end up defining the function for years.
Kaltura

The World Cup showed we still want to watch together

01.08.26|Eynav “Navi” Azaria
The next era of media will preserve the shared live moment while adapting how each person enters, understands, and participates in it.
Yali Saar

AI is making small markets big enough

01.08.26|Yali Saar
As AI lowers the cost of building and operating a company, narrow professions, local problems and overlooked niches are becoming viable businesses again, this time without venture-scale markets. 
עו"ד יואב אלקלעי

The hidden risks of using AI in the invention process

31.07.26|Yoav Alkalay, Justin Halprin
AI can accelerate brainstorming, research and patent drafting, but unless inventors stay in control of the process and protect confidential information, the same technology can jeopardize novelty, patentability, and commercial value.
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Companies risk repeating the mistakes of the PC era by layering AI onto outdated processes.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.
Eyal Azoulay

Financial crime has industrialized. Investigation hasn't.

25.07.26|Eyal Azoulay
Criminal networks now operate at global scale with specialized teams, AI and digital infrastructure, while many financial institutions still investigate suspicious activity through fragmented, manual processes. 
Echo founders

AI defenders are fighting under rules their attackers don’t have

24.07.26|Eylam Milner and Mor Weinberger
One of the first major AI-versus-AI incidents showed how safeguards designed to prevent misuse can leave authorized defenders constrained during a live attack. 
Michael Gabay

AI agents need jobs, not just tasks

23.07.26|Michael Gabay
As agents move from isolated actions to continuing work across business systems, trust will depend on defined responsibility, clear boundaries and human oversight. 
Oshrat Ben-Avi Zabludovitz

Smart efficiency starts with infrastructure, not layoffs

22.07.26|Oshrat Ben-Avi Zabludovitz
Before making painful decisions about employees, it's worth checking whether some of the savings are hiding in the organization's cloud, data, and AI infrastructure. 
Emmanuel Levy

More data centers, same grid

21.07.26|Emmanuel Levy
Flexible grid connections and onsite power could unlock new AI infrastructure without waiting years for every network upgrade. 
Daniel Zehavi

Companies run on rules nobody ever wrote down

19.07.26|Daniel Zahavi
Revenue, churn and customer health often mean different things across the same company. As AI enters decision-making, those unwritten definitions can no longer remain informal.
Rachel Caplin

The brain drain nobody's talking about and what it means for the Start Up Nation story

18.07.26|Rachel Caplin
Israeli high tech is facing a dangerous brain drain. Not to Silicon Valley, but to AI.  
Shachar Efal

The enterprise AI paradox: The arms race slipping out of budgetary control

17.07.26|Shachar Efal
Marrying a skilled AI work culture with smart cost control is the key to transforming AI from an expensive trend into a stable, secure growth engine.
יהודה טאוב שותף כללי בקרן Hetz ventures

The wrong AI race

14.07.26|Judah Taub
Israel will never be the country with the largest number of data centers in the world. It will never have the largest number of chips either. But it can absolutely be the country where the most important AI companies are born.
Ezra Gardner Varana

The public market window is open. It is just less forgiving.

13.07.26|Ezra Gardner
For Israeli CEOs, Nasdaq is a trust-building exercise that begins years before the first trade.
Bar Refaeli Dr. Inbal Gat Dr. Shira Orr

You can't outspend an AI attacker

12.07.26|Ido Geffen
The winners of the AI era won't be the companies that spend the most on AI. They'll be the ones that own and continuously optimize the AI systems they depend on to deliver the best performance at the lowest sustainable cost.