
When Nvidia buys shares of Meta, which buys Nvidia's chips, that isn't confidence in the future. It's a loop. Tonight's results will test the question everyone avoids: who ends up paying.
Ori Gal, Columnist / 3 min read

According to The Wall Street Journal, the valuation is about $7 billion. According to Calcalist, the price is lower, about $5.5 billion, after Nvidia and Anthropic passed. The company, founded by 8200 veterans, was only founded in 2023.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

After their $32 billion exit to Google, Assaf Rappaport and his partners are negotiating for the franchise at a price far below the previous deal, and have approached Discount Bank about the credit card company.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

Investors will look for an answer to one question: is the enormous AI spending already producing revenue. Microsoft will show Azure revenue in dollars for the first time, and Google is expected to report about $128 billion in revenue.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

Nvidia will buy $3 billion of stock and AMD $1 billion, as part of a $25 billion offering that was about five times oversubscribed. Meta is also expanding its use of Vera Rubin chips.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

Cathedral reached the Claude maker's HR, sales and IT systems through third-party software, as part of a bug bounty program. According to Anthropic, user conversations, source code and model weights were not exposed.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

The valuation of the cloud security company founded by Israeli entrepreneur Amiram Shachar more than doubled in nine months. The round comes days after the disputed report of a Datadog takeover offer.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

Anthropic's security team revealed five attack chains built by an unreleased internal research model, including one-click remote code execution in Chrome. All the flaws were reported to vendors in advance and, according to reports, fixed.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

The new model understands what is on screen, acts across apps and is aimed at everyday work such as filling in forms and editing video. According to OpenAI, it halves the price of the previous generation.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

Boomi acquired Israel's Elementary Data for about $40 million to $45 million, and Rocket Software bought Geniez AI in a deal estimated at up to $100 million. A trend reshaping Israel's exit map.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

The Jerusalem-based autonomous driving technology company reports before the New York open. Last quarter revenue was nearly flat, and the company narrowed its annual forecast.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

Meta promised to verify everyone who runs investment ads in Israel. The scams keep running. Here is how to spot them, and why one-time verification is simply not enough
Moshe Levi, co-founder and CTO of LevinityCyber / 3 min read

The Israeli solar energy company is cutting about 10% of its workforce despite improved second-quarter results. The reasons: weak demand for residential solar in the US and excess distributor inventory in Europe.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

According to Bezeq CEO Nir David, private customers' use of chatbots, personal assistants and AI tools tripled in just three months. Data traffic used to double only every two and a half to three years.
Maya Dor, Products Correspondent / 3 min read

At Oracle AI World, the software giant announced four new AI products with OpenAI, and a deal that will make it the first major cloud provider outside Google to offer Google's chips.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

A data leak affecting about 38,000 Daishin customers, a breach of an internal system at crypto exchange Bithumb, and a regulator sending in inspectors. The top supervisor warns that with AI, attacks on several institutions at once could become the norm.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

The Korean memory chipmaker reported operating profit of 83 trillion won and an 80% margin, and said its output is almost sold out through 2029. Its shares jumped 8%.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

According to Tel Aviv University researchers, emigration from Israel has surged since 2023 and is especially pronounced among engineering and computer science graduates. The Innovation Authority reports the first drop in a decade in R&D employees.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

The company, formerly called Nagish, with about 32 employees, will train its models on Nvidia's supercomputers. The goal: real-time translation from sign language to text and speech.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

The Tel Aviv company, founded by Unit 8200 veterans, develops AI agents that investigate security alerts and filter out false positives. A $28 million Series A was led by Red Dot.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

According to The Information, Datadog offered nearly $4 billion for the cloud security company founded by Israeli entrepreneurs, which preferred to raise capital instead. Calcalist reports the offer was never made.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

The Israeli fintech company, valued at $8 billion in 2022, is cutting 60 to 70 employees. At the same time it denies an Axios report that Visa is in advanced talks to buy it for just $2.5 billion.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

About $480 billion of market value has been wiped from Shanghai's index of chip and AI companies. State funds are stepping in to buy, and analysts are split on whether it is an opportunity or just the beginning.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

GM will move its shares from the New York Stock Exchange to the tech-heavy exchange in November, a step that makes it eligible to join the Nasdaq-100 alongside the tech giants.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

The AI company's compute commitment to Elon Musk's company has grown almost threefold from early estimates. Most of the contracts can be cancelled on 90 days' notice, a key detail for IPO investors.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

CISA added the two critical PHP vulnerabilities to its list of actively exploited flaws and ordered federal agencies to patch by October 29. Those who cannot update are told to take their servers offline.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

Freedman, who led fundamental research in the science group of Verily, Alphabet's life sciences company, will be responsible at the Nasdaq-listed Israeli quantum company for bridging AI and quantum technologies.
Techwire staff / 3 min read

The three companies, which plan to spend up to $600 billion this year on infrastructure, report results in the coming days. Against a market selloff and rising financing costs, investors want proof the money is coming back.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

The company presents a proof of a 35-year-old mathematical conjecture, a disproof of a central conjecture in computer science and a result in quantum field theory. None of the claims has been peer-reviewed yet, and outside experts are now checking them.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

The new computers get Apple's next generation of chips, Wi-Fi 7 and faster storage, but no design changes. Orders open tomorrow, and according to reports, a MacBook Pro with an OLED touchscreen is expected to be unveiled at Wednesday's event.
Maya Dor, Products Correspondent / 3 min read

According to six sources, Israel's Discover-Tech was one of the world's largest bidders for ads shown to users of SpaceX's satellite internet. Security researchers believe the ads were used to locate and track users. The company did not respond.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

According to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Elon Musk's company will lease Nvidia Vera Rubin chips from an entity managed by Apollo. It is one of the largest compute financing deals signed to date.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

The FTC is widening its investigation into consumer harm from AI companies. Anthropic has already warned in its prospectus that the probe could be costly and force changes to its models.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

Enthusiasm over Anthropic's IPO filing keeps pushing chip stocks higher, and Bank of America expects memory to stay tight in 2027 and 2028. This week: earnings from SK Hynix and SanDisk.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

According to a Check Point report, attacks on Israeli government bodies jumped 82% during the election period. The National Cyber Directorate and the Central Elections Committee launched an operation to protect the vote. Here is how to spot a fake message.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

Bank of America, Citi, Morgan Stanley and Blackstone will fund a special-purpose company that buys the chips and leases them to the maker of Claude. Broadcom is guaranteeing part of the risk, and Moody's is already sounding a warning.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

The chip giant is buying the Tel Aviv quantum software company in a cash-and-stock deal, its first major acquisition in four years. Classiq will keep supporting rivals' hardware.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

The developer of Claude opened its books ahead of one of the largest IPOs in tech history. Revenue jumped about 14x, and net loss reached $80.7 billion, mainly due to the revaluation of convertible bonds.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

Apple released an update that gives Siri memory of earlier conversations and access to personal data across several apps. The features require an iPhone 16 or later or an iPhone 15 Pro, and there is a new setting to exclude apps.
Maya Dor, Products Correspondent / 3 min read

61% of marketers already use AI every day, but only 6.5% of organizations measure the return on that investment. As 2027 budgets take shape, it is time to ask what has really changed on the bottom line.
Ran Harel, founder of Ganbaru / 4 min read

The US hardware startup, valued at $4.5 billion, is buying the Caesarea-based chip company in a cash-and-stock deal. Market estimates put the deal at $150 million to $200 million, and about 40 employees will join the acquirer.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

An Israeli security researcher bought a domain the telecom company had let go, and began receiving customers' picture messages. According to TheMarker, his reports to the company and to the National Cyber Directorate went unanswered, and the gap was closed only after the newspaper got in touch.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

The software giant is cutting costs amid enormous AI spending. The offer applies to employees in the US, Canada, the UK and India, who must decide by early December. In Israel, about 50 Copilot Studio employees were called to pre-dismissal hearings.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

Many organizations do not know which PHP versions their servers run. A non-intrusive check that compares the version a server reports with the patched versions can give an initial picture. Moshe Levi of Levinity Cyber explains what it reveals, and what it does not.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

PHP2Shell proved that AI models are already excellent vulnerability hunters. The real security problem of 2026 is not finding flaws, but patching faster than the attackers.
Ori Gal, Columnist / 4 min read

Two severe PHP vulnerabilities allow remote code execution without authentication. Patches are out, exploitation attempts are already here, and there is no safe workaround.
Omer Levin, Cyber Correspondent / 3 min read

OpenAI expanded the GPT-6 family to all ChatGPT users and introduced Intelligent UI. What changed, who gets which model, and why healthy skepticism is in order.
Yael Barak, AI Correspondent / 3 min read

Tel Aviv-based doubleAI unveils Maxwell, a model that optimizes software while it runs. Investors include Lightspeed, Bessemer, Nvidia and Dell, and the business model is a share of the savings.
Noa Sagi, Startups Correspondent / 3 min read

After its first quarter of negative free cash flow in more than a decade, the social media giant turns to the capital markets. Nvidia, AMD and Broadcom signal interest in taking part.
Itai Rosen, Global Tech Correspondent / 3 min read

Google Cloud's new agent works inside Gmail, Docs and Sheets, but also in Microsoft 365 and Slack. It picks a model for each task, including Anthropic's Claude.
Maya Dor, Products Correspondent / 3 min read