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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

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Mobileye co-founder and CEO Professor Amnon Shashua speaks at the Nasdaq exchange in New York after the Intel subsidiary went public, October 26, 2022. (Nasdaq)
Mobileye founder warns about how war, judicial overhaul hurt Israeli tech
By Sharon Wrobel
Prof. Amnon Shashua says that while Israelis are used to living in a routine of war, the uncertainty puts off foreign investors and clients, hurting the local tech environment
Illustrative image of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) (Phonlamai iStock by Getty Images)
Israel invests NIS 500m in R&D infrastructure to keep pace in global AI race
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative image of robots and artificial intelligence (AI) (Phonlamai iStock by Getty Images)
September 18, 2024, 2:50 pm
Israel invests NIS 500m in R&D infrastructure to keep pace in global AI race
Funds for the program will be allocated to create a national AI research institute, expand human capital, and integrate AI models across government services
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative. A criminal in handcuffs. (Yakobchuk Olena/ iStock, by Getty Images)
September 11, 2024, 7:43 pm
Tel Aviv teen detained for using AI to create explicit photos of underage girls
Police say a laptop, cellphone and iPad were seized during the arrest; boy reportedly took pictures of girls and used AI to edit them onto images of naked women
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Illustrative image of innovation, AI, machine learning and robots. (ipopba; iStock by Getty Images)
September 5, 2024, 8:07 pm
Israel signs global treaty to address risks of artificial intelligence
The treaty, spearheaded by the Council of Europe and signed by 57 states, including the US, is a legal framework to tackle harmful and discriminatory outcomes of AI systems
By Sharon Wrobel
Ilya Sutskever, Russian Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and then-chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv on June 5, 2023. (Jack Guez/AFP)
September 4, 2024, 10:15 pm
OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s new safety-focused AI startup SSI raises $1 billion
New company plans to focus on building a small, highly trusted team of researchers and engineers split between California’s Palo Alto and Tel Aviv
By Kenrick Cai, Krystal Hu and Anna Tong
Mobileye co-founder and CEO Professor Amnon Shashua speaks at the Nasdaq exchange in New York after the Intel subsidiary went public, October 26, 2022. (Nasdaq)
September 4, 2024, 9:08 pm
Mobileye founder warns about how war, judicial overhaul hurt Israeli tech
Prof. Amnon Shashua says that while Israelis are used to living in a routine of war, the uncertainty puts off foreign investors and clients, hurting the local tech environment
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative. Computer processors. Conventional computers process information, or bits, each of which can be either a zero or a one, in the binary language of computing. Quantum bits, however, used by quantum computers, can be both a zero and one simultaneously. (Rost-9D; iStock by Getty Images)
August 11, 2024, 6:39 pm
Amid ongoing war, Israel and the UK launch fund for joint tech research projects
$2.4 million fund will allocate grants to joint research on quantum technologies, AI in drug discovery, food tech
By Sharon Wrobel
Friend founder Avi Schiffmann (Cameron Quijada)
August 9, 2024, 11:31 am
Whiz kid Avi Schiffmann is back, this time with a new controversial AI ‘Friend’
Moving beyond website building and internet activism, the 21-year-old is in the process of launching a wearable AI device people can talk to, bond with, and lean on like a real pal
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Ariel Tankus conducts an experiment with a patient, who, his mouth closed, imagines saying a syllable, and the laptop 'says' it for him. (Courtesy, Tel Aviv University)
July 31, 2024, 9:54 am
Using AI, Tel Aviv University researcher hopes to turn patients’ thoughts into speech
Dr. Ariel Tankus says brain-computer interface could help paralyzed people communicate via the brain’s electron signals, offering optimism for those who lose speech capability
By Diana Bletter
Eden Golan, Israel's Eurovision participant, as she arrived home in Israel on May 12, 2024. (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
July 29, 2024, 6:55 pm
Eden Golan’s managers deploy AI to help writers produce hit songs
Session 42, the studio that brought Israel’s contestant to the 2024 Eurovision, is offering an innovative option for performing artists
By Jessica Steinberg
Jonathan Dekel-Chen, center, father of American hostage Sagui Dekel-Chen, along with other families of hostages in Gaza, speaks with reporters following their meeting with President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House in Washington, Thursday, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Stephanie Scarbrough)
July 26, 2024, 5:38 pm
Daily Briefing Jul 26: Day 294 – PM meets hostage families; Israel slams Harris on Gaza
US bureau chief Jacob Magid discusses Netanyahu’s meetings with Biden, VP Kamala Harris and hostage families as Tech Israel editor Sharon Wrobel looks at AI tech during war
By ToI Staff
Founders of Israeli startup Cyabra (from left to right): Yossef Daar, Dan Brahmy, and Ido Shraga, (Courtesy)
July 23, 2024, 11:42 pm
Israeli AI startup tracking fake news plans to list on Nasdaq at $70 million valuation
Tel Aviv-based Cyabra has built a platform driven by machine learning algorithms to uncover fake profiles and harmful narratives created by AI-generated fake content and GenAI tools
By Sharon Wrobel
Team at Israeli tech startup Planck, a developer of an artificial intelligence-based insurance data platform. (Courtesy)
July 23, 2024, 8:15 pm
Applied Systems buys Israeli AI insurtech startup to open a local R&D center
As part of the deal, the first in Israel for the US cloud-based insurance software provider, an AI development center will be created with all of Planck’s 65 employees
By Sharon Wrobel
Team at Israeli-founded startup Linx Security. (Netanel Tobias)
July 22, 2024, 10:22 pm
Backed by Wiz founders, Tel Aviv-founded startup emerges from stealth with $33m
Linx Security, founded by graduates of elite military intelligence unit 8200, has built a platform to help businesses manage and track identities across their digital assets
By Sharon Wrobel
CytoReason co-founders from right to left: David Harel, CEO, Professor Shai Shen-Orr, chief scientist, Elina Starosvetsky, VP biology, and Renaud Gaujoux, principal scientist and data science architect. (Fabian Koldorff)
July 17, 2024, 9:50 pm
Backed by Nvidia and Pfizer, Israeli AI medical startup raises $80m in fresh capital
Tel Aviv-based CytoReason, which uses machine learning to build computational models of human diseases to speed up treatment discoveries, plans to open a US office later this year
By Sharon Wrobel
People use their smartphones near the Olympic rings that are displayed on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, June 7, 2024 in Paris. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, File)
July 5, 2024, 3:01 pm
Insurers fret over possible terror attacks, AI hacks at upcoming Paris Olympics
Israeli delegation to Games considered potential flashpoint due to tension over war in Gaza and general risk of Islamic terrorism
By Reuters
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