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Tal Abuloff Alon Cinnamon

Project Glasswing by Anthropic didn't just find the bugs. It also found the real vulnerability in cybersecurity.

24.05.26|Alon Cinamon
By the end of last week, Anthropic published an update on Project Glasswing that most people missed. I think it's one of the most consequential signals in cybersecurity in years - and the headline numbers are only half the story. 
Yair Snir and Barrel Kfir

The giant models threaten to wipe out classic cybersecurity companies. Who will survive the revolution?

24.05.26|Yair Snir, Barrel Kfir
The cybersecurity-model announcements from OpenAI and Anthropic are not merely a threat to existing startups. They are the opening shot of a critical shift, from a world of vulnerability detection to one of autonomous remediation and prevention. 
Lisya Bahar Manoah Elron Ventures

From the automotive industry to the battlefield: Why automotive startups are turning to defense

21.05.26|Lisya Bahar Manoah
As funding slows and autonomy timelines slip, automotive startups are increasingly turning to defense markets as a parallel path to growth, reshaping the future of mobility and deep-tech investment.
Yaffa Abadi

Stop building AI apps on the weekend. Start becoming an AI conductor in your field.

18.05.26|Yaffa Abadi
Everyone now needs to be a manager. Not of people, but of AI. And the space between those who've internalized that shift and those who haven't will be the defining career gap of the next five years.
דורין בניאל מנהלת אזורית בקרן נייטדרגון

The new tech moat: Why startups must grow with AI, not chase it

17.05.26|Dorin Baniel
The next generation of winning startups will look different. The companies that win won't necessarily create the best initial product. They'll be the ones whose architecture lets them improve continuously, automatically, structurally, and at scale.
Guy & Yael

Why transparency is a negotiation strategy, not just a principle

10.05.26|Yael Chayu, Guy Milhalter
According to Yael Chayu and Guy Milhalter, as long as humans, not algorithms, sit at the table, deal success depends less on contracts and more on how negotiations are framed and managed
חיים שיף מנכ"ל קבוצת הסקנדרי The Elephant

The IPO window isn't open. Here's what that means for your shares

10.05.26|Chaim Schiff
While the market is focused on potential mega-IPOs, Chaim Schiff, CEO of The Elephant Secondary Group, explains why this does not necessarily translate into broader liquidity for startup employees
Tali Rosenwaks Next Gear Ventures

Physical AI is breaking the hyperscale model - not because of compute, but because of where compute can exist

06.05.26|Tali Rosenwaks
Physical AI is shifting computation toward the real world. Robotics, autonomous logistics, manufacturing systems, and sensor-dense environments require inference at the point of action.
Jeremy Levin

Innovation made Israel strong. Voting will keep it that way

29.04.26|Dr. Jeremy M. Levin
“Fly & Vote” is not a slogan. It is a decision to remain part of the system that helped shape you—and to take responsibility for where it goes next.
ד"ר לירן ענתבי

Cheap drones, expensive lessons

28.04.26|Liran Antebi
The rise of cheap, rapidly evolving drone warfare - from fiber-optic control to mass production - is reshaping the battlefield faster than traditional militaries can adapt, forcing a rethink of how advantage is built and sustained.
Aviram Givoni

The iron gateway to Europe: The connection between German engineering and Israeli audacity

28.04.26|Aviram Givoni
The "5-Point Plan," the new agreement between Germany and Israel, could prove to be a tool for anchoring a broad strategic partnership and long-term projects that will strengthen and deepen the cooperation between the two nations.
Israel's defense tech ecosystem (2026)

The only country iterating DefenseTech under fire - Israel celebrates 78 years of independence

23.04.26|Alex Shmulovich
"Traditional militaries learn between wars. Israel is learning between iterations of the same war. Systems here do not just reach product-market fit. They reach battle-fit," writes Alex Shmulovich, a Partner at Viola Ventures.
Ambassador Xiao Junzheng

Innovation as an engine: Driving Chinese modernization and China-Israel tech cooperation

23.04.26|Xiao Junzheng
"Israel is globally renowned as “Startup Nation”, and innovation has become a shared pathway for China and Israel to address development challenges," writes Chinese Ambassador to Israel, Xiao Junzheng.
יהודה טאוב שותף כללי בקרן Hetz ventures

The AI company worth more than Israel's GDP - what it means for us

20.04.26|Judah Taub
Anthropic’s surge exposes a deeper truth: Israel is early in AI adoption, but late in strategic planning.
Gal Peretz

The real test of AI is not the chatbot. It’s the emergency call center

20.04.26|Gal Peretz
Most people judge AI by convenience. In emergency communications, the question is different: can it reduce uncertainty, shorten time to action, and support human judgment when panic is part of the signal?
Eilon Elhadad

The AI cybersecurity boom may be creating a bigger problem than it solves

19.04.26|Eilon Elhadad
"The gap between when a vulnerability is understood and when you can actually eliminate it from your systems is about to become more visible, more frequent, and more operationally expensive," writes Eilon Elhadad, co-founder and CEO at Echo.
יניב גולן שותף בקרן הון סיכון lool ventures

Anthropic’s revolution is a wake-up call for Israeli cyber

16.04.26|Yaniv Golan
The Israeli market remains strong, but the question of whether cyber is still an "excellent" investment now yields a complex answer.
Ronnen Armon

The next investigator: From collecting evidence to understanding it with AI

16.04.26|Ronnen Armon
As AI systems become more powerful, the importance of human judgment only increases.
הקברניט לייזר נשק אנרגיה אור איתן

Low-cost interception systems and spectrum control are reshaping the battlefield

14.04.26|Evan Renov, Lisya Bahar Manoah
The economic efficiency of defense systems is becoming an integral part of military strategy, driving investors and companies in the defense and deep tech sectors to focus on technologies that can rebalance the equation.
ערן ברק שותף מייסד ומנכ"ל חברת הסייבר MIND

90% of companies have already adopted AI - so why do only 20% manage to extract real value?

13.04.26|Eran Barak
"AI has effectively become a “stress test” for organizational data infrastructure. Ultimately, the challenge organizations face today is not an excess of AI, but a lack of readiness for it," writes Eran Barak, co-founder and CEO of MIND.