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Ilya Sutskever, Israeli-Canadian computer scientist and co-founder and then-chief scientist of OpenAI, speaks at a TED AI conference in San Francisco on October 17, 2023. (Glenn Chapman / AFP)
April 14, 2025, 6:26 pm
Google and Nvidia said to back OpenAI co-founder Sutskever’s safety startup
Safe Superintelligence, co-founded by Israel-raised Sutskever, raises $2b to hire top engineers in Tel Aviv and Palo Alto, and develop safe AI systems that are smarter than humans
By Sharon Wrobel
Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz from left to right: VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)
March 18, 2025, 11:17 am
Google agrees to buy Israel’s cyber unicorn Wiz for $32b, country’s biggest tech deal
Purchase is also largest by Google parent firm Alphabet; Google CEO: ‘Together, Google Cloud and Wiz will turbocharge improved cloud security’
By Sharon Wrobel
Composite image showing some of the ancient clay cylinders, thought to be engraved with what researchers say is the earliest known form of alphabetic writing. (courtesy John Hopkins University)
December 17, 2024, 4:46 am
A claim that the earliest alphabet was found in Syria sparks a media maelstrom – finally
A Johns Hopkins archaeologist recycles a 20-year-old hypothesis that small clay cylinders found in an ancient tomb reset the genesis of letters by 500 years. Why are people listening now?
By Gavriel Fiske
Founders of US-Israeli cyber unicorn Wiz from left to right: VP Product Yinon Costica, CEO Assaf Rappaport, CTO Ami Luttwak, and VP R&D Roy Reznik. (Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)
July 23, 2024, 11:33 am
Google’s $23b deal to buy Israeli cybersecurity startup Wiz reported to fall apart
Cloud security startup, which propelled its founders onto small list of Israeli billionaires, will seek IPO instead; deal may have collapsed over antitrust concerns, insiders say
By ToI Staff
This file photo taken on February 14, 2020, shows the US multinational technology and internet-related services company Google logo in Brussels. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)
January 18, 2024, 6:34 pm
Google said set to start laying off employees in Israel in coming days
The US tech giant employs about 2,000 people in Haifa and Tel Aviv, working across data mining and game theory teams, and other R&D activity, as well as sales and marketing
By Sharon Wrobel
File: Ruth Porat speaks onstage during the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center Groundbreaking Ceremony in New York City, on June 24, 2022. (Monica Schipper/Getty Images via AFP)
July 30, 2023, 11:54 pm
New Google president Ruth Porat has Israeli roots
Porat’s father immigrated to Mandatory Palestine from Ukraine and fought in Independence War; her mother was born en route and grew up in pre-state Israel
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Workers help set up the Google booth at the Las Vegas Convention Center before the start of the CES tech show, January 2, 2023, in Las Vegas. (AP/John Locher)
January 20, 2023, 3:57 pm
Google announces 12,000 job cuts as tech industry layoffs spread
Firings come day after Microsoft says it will reduce staff in next few months, similar decisions by other prominent firms, as sector faces economic downturn
By AFP
Colorful pipes sending and receiving water for cooling Google's data center in The Dalles, Oregon, in an undated photo. (AP/Google, Connie Zhou)
October 24, 2022, 10:57 pm
Google’s first local cloud region for Israel goes live
New network part of $1.2b Nimbus project to bring cloud-based regional data centers and services to government, public entities; expected to boost economic growth, employment
By Ricky Ben-David
A Google building at the company's campus in Mountain View, California, on Sept. 24, 2019. (AP/Jeff Chiu)
February 20, 2022, 6:40 pm
Google to fund $25m tech skills programs for underrepresented Israeli communities
Technology giant says initiative to help diversify workforce, encourage integration of Arab, ultra-Orthodox professionals into high-tech sector
By Ricky Ben-David
Salt Security co-founder Roey Eliyahu. (Courtesy)
February 10, 2022, 5:05 pm
Google investment fund leads $140m round in Israeli cybersecurity startup
Backing values Salt Security, an API security company, at $1.4 billion; new clients include innovation unit of oil giant BP
By Ricky Ben-David
Cybereason co-founders, left to right, Yonatan Striem Amit, Lior Div and Yossi Naar. (Cybereason)
February 1, 2022, 3:38 pm
Israel’s Cybereason, backed by Softbank and Alphabet, files for IPO at $5b valuation
American-Israeli company, also backed by former US treasurer Steve Mnuchin’s fund, expects to go public later in 2022
By Ricky Ben-David
The Orca Security team, March 2021 (Orca Security)
October 5, 2021, 4:22 pm
Israel’s Orca Security raises additional $340m at $1.8b valuation
Singapore-based firm Temasek leads extended Series C round in Israeli cybersecurity startup, founded just 2 years ago
By Ricky Ben-David
People walk by a Google sign on the campus in Mountain View, California, on September 24, 2019. (AP Photo/ Jeff Chiu, File)
August 8, 2021, 6:08 pm
New Google project in Israel aims to use AI to help detect colon cancer
Verily Life Sciences opens R&D center in Israel, will partner with Jerusalem hospital to prevent and manage disease
By Luke Tress
The Orca Security team, March 2021 (Orca Security)
March 24, 2021, 11:42 am
Orca Security raises $210 million, becomes ‘unicorn’ with $1.2 billion valuation
Google’s growth fund leads investment in the Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity firm set up 2 years ago by former execs of Check Point Software Technologies
By Shoshanna Solomon
Jorge Cuadros, left, gives a demonstration of a robotic retinal camera to a reporter at the Google I/O conference in Mountain View, California, on May 8, 2018 (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
September 24, 2018, 5:20 pm
At 20, Google looks to the future with AI, driverless cars and more
Tech giant has become ubiquitous in modern life with its search features, thought its dominance has also brought concerns by regulators
By Glenn Chapman
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