
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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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