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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 624

AI artificial intelligence

Six-month old Israeli startup is bought up by website builder Wix for $80 million
By Sharon Wrobel
Bootstrapped startup Base44 is the developer of an AI-based platform that lets users build apps with no coding experience, by writing a text prompt, similar to ChatGPT interface
Illustrative image of a Wix-made app. (Courtesy/Wix)
Illustrative. Cybersecurity technology. (Stock Depot via iStock by Getty Images)
11 Israeli startups dominate list of most promising global cybersecurity firms
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative image of a Wix-made app. (Courtesy/Wix)
June 19, 2025, 4:24 pm
Six-month old Israeli startup is bought up by website builder Wix for $80 million
Bootstrapped startup Base44 is the developer of an AI-based platform that lets users build apps with no coding experience, by writing a text prompt, similar to ChatGPT interface
By Sharon Wrobel
Isaiah Scroll from the IAA's Dead Sea Scrolls collection. (Shai Halevi, Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority)
June 6, 2025, 4:45 pm
New study revolutionizes Dead Sea Scrolls dating, might rewrite Israel’s history
Trailblazing interdisciplinary system, combining AI and radiocarbon dating, indicates the precious artifacts may have been written decades – or even centuries – earlier than previously believed
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative. Cybersecurity technology. (Stock Depot via iStock by Getty Images)
June 4, 2025, 8:57 pm
11 Israeli startups dominate list of most promising global cybersecurity firms
The startups make up more than one-third of Notable Capital’s ‘Rising in Cyber 2025’ list of 30 companies solving the most urgent challenges facing security teams
By Sharon Wrobel
People visit the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, a former Nazi German concentration and extermination camp, in Oswiecim, Poland, Sunday, Jan. 26, 2025. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)
May 24, 2025, 6:04 pm
Auschwitz museum sounds alarm over ‘harmful’ AI images of Holocaust victims
Museum officials warn that fake AI-generated bios, photos of victims shared on social media are ‘falsifying history,’ could lead to denial of Nazi atrocities
By Agencies
A pro-Palestinian protester against Israel is escorted away by security while interrupting Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman during a presentation of the company's AI assistant, Copilot, ahead of a 50th Anniversary presentation at Microsoft headquarters, April 4, 2025, in Redmond, Washington. (AP Photo/Jason Redmond)
May 18, 2025, 11:21 pm
Microsoft denies claim its AI tech was used by IDF during war to target Gazans
Tech giant says that after a thorough review, in response to protests from workers, it found no evidence that its Azure and AI tech have been used to plan strikes in Gaza
By Sharon Wrobel
UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (R) welcomes his US counterpart Donald Trump upon arrival at the presidential terminal in Abu Dhabi on May 15, 2025. (Giuseppe Cacae/AFP)
May 15, 2025, 6:46 pm
Trump lands in UAE for last leg of Middle East tour as Emiratis seek AI cooperation
US leader meets with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, announces $10 billion Qatari investment in US military base southwest of Doha
By Reuters and ToI Staff
The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/ Richard Drew, File)
May 13, 2025, 2:44 pm
Judge slams police for using AI to write legal argument, citing nonexistent laws
‘I thought I had seen everything,’ says judge after defense says police investigators used AI to write bogus legal justification for keeping defendant’s seized phone
By ToI Staff
Pope Leo XIV meets the College of Cardinals in the New Synod Hall at the Vatican, Saturday, May 10, 2025. (Vatican Media via AP)
May 10, 2025, 7:41 pm
Pope Leo XIV lays out his vision and identifies AI as a main challenge for humanity
Leo indicates intent to maintain some of the core priorities of Pope Francis while also charting his own path
By Nicole Winfield
Otzma Yehudit MK Almog Cohen in the Knesset, January 20, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 6, 2025, 12:17 pm
Netanyahu said seeking to give ‘unemployed’ deputy minister role in forming AI policy
Far-right former lawmaker Almog Cohen was appointed to the cabinet last month to help solve a coalition spat, but it has proved tricky to find him suitable work
By ToI Staff
Israeli singer Ofra Haza, 1987. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90)
April 28, 2025, 10:35 am
AI to revive Ofra Haza, other deceased singers for Independence Day
Artists who passed away years ago, including Shoshana Damari, Uzi Hitman and Jo Amar, will posthumously participate in torch-lighting ceremony
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A soldier from the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate works at a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 26, 2025, 10:57 am
Israel using AI to pinpoint Hamas leaders, find hostages in Gaza tunnels — report
AI programs, including chatbot and audio-based location tool, reportedly developed by Unit 8200 soldiers and reservists from big tech firms, said to have raised ethical concerns
By ToI Staff
Dr. Alan Bekker, co-founder and CEO of Israeli AI startup eSelf. (Courtesy)
April 24, 2025, 3:51 am
Israel rolls out pilot for students to learn with conversational avatar companions
eSelf partners with the Center for Educational Technology for every student to have access to a private AI tutor that can respond to questions by using images and videos in lessons
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: An Israel-based think tank analyzed the sermons given by American rabbis and how they changed after October 7, 2023. (Wikimedia Commons via JTA)
April 23, 2025, 11:31 am
Think tank analysis of US synagogue sermons finds politics in Israel top topic
Israel-based Jewish People Policy Institute uses AI to review 4,400 speeches from range of dominations, finds content after Oct. 7 Hamas attacks spiked to focus on war situation
By JTA and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A Boeing 787 aircraft seen during final assembly production in Charleston, South Carolina, August 4, 2022. (BOEING / AFP)
April 22, 2025, 9:01 pm
Israeli startup sues ex-CEO for fraud, and allegedly forging contracts using ChatGPT
Promai accuses Erez Ben-Eshay of fabricating fake contracts with giants like Boeing and Tesla, posing as a pilot and romancing the founder to defraud the company
By Sharon Wrobel
Dor Sarig (right) and Ziv Karliner, co-founders of Israeli AI security startup Pillar Security. (Courtesy)
April 16, 2025, 8:12 pm
Israeli startup nabs funds to build defense layer against evolving AI cyber threats
Pillar Security raises $9 million in seed funding to triple its workforce and expand its R&D operations to help businesses build secure AI systems
By Sharon Wrobel
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