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Illustrative: A secure laptop. (Anyaberkut, iStock by Getty Images)
October 15, 2026, 7:56 pm
Israeli company used online ads to run vast spy operation, researchers say
Discover-Tech could reportedly track and identify users even if they didn’t click on ads, some of which were used to plant spyware from blacklisted Israeli firm Candiru
By Raphael Satter
Josh Woodward, vice president of Google Labs and Gemini, speaks about Gemini Spark at a Google I/O event in Mountain View, Calif., May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
September 19, 2026, 1:47 pm
Google says its Gemini AI broke out and hacked three companies during testing
Incident in which program guessed credentials to access three websites comes amid a wave of similar incidents of artificial intelligence agents going rogue
By Reuters
Arsen Ostrovsky, who was with his family at Bondi Beach in Sydney during the deadly December 14, 2025, terror shooting, describes the attack in an Australian TV interview. (Sky News Australia screenshot)
July 8, 2026, 6:47 am
YouTube defends video falsely claiming Bondi Beach massacre survivor is ‘crisis actor’
Google exec testifies before government panel probing antisemitism; says decision not to pull clip that called Arsen Ostrovsky an ‘intel asset’ was made at ‘quite senior levels’
By Agencies
AppsFlyer founders Reshef Mann, left, and Oren Kaniel. (Courtesy/Appsflyer PR)
June 23, 2026, 5:25 pm
Backed by Google and Meta, Israeli ad performance company raises over $1 billion
AppsFlyer gets capital injection from 4 top ad platforms to develop independent ad measurement tools for the AI era, designed to help firms gauge the success of marketing campaigns
By Sharon Wrobel
Left: 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); Google Cloud offices in Sunnyvale, California, on June 8, 2023. (JHVEPhoto/iStock)
March 11, 2026, 7:03 pm
In biggest exit in Israeli history, Google completes $32 billion deal to buy Wiz
With the Wiz purchase, Google wants to bolster its AI cyber offerings to compete in the cloud race against global tech giants; deal to inject an estimated $3.2b into state coffers
By Sharon Wrobel
A Google office building at the company's campus in Silicon Valley, June 2019. (Sundry Photography via iStock by Getty Images)
February 20, 2026, 5:24 pm
US charges 3 Silicon Valley engineers with sending Google trade secrets to Iran
Prosecutors say the Iranian nationals siphoned hundreds of files on Pixel smartphone processor security and accessed them during a 2023 trip to Iran
By AFP and ToI Staff
Left: 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); Google Cloud offices in Sunnyvale, California, on June 8, 2023. (JHVEPhoto/iStock)
February 10, 2026, 8:26 pm
EU okays Google’s $32 billion Wiz deal, in largest-ever buyout of Israeli-founded tech co
Acquisition will make founders of cybersecurity company multibillionaires, while national coffers are set to benefit from a tax windfall
By Sharon Wrobel
Construction workers, bottom right, atop the US Treasury, watch as work continues on a largely demolished part of the East Wing of the White House, October 23, 2025, in Washington, before construction of a new ballroom. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
November 13, 2025, 10:58 am
Trump’s $300m ballroom backed by tech, crypto giants — and two Israeli billionaires
White House donor list features US president’s Palm Beach neighbors, major US corporations, and high-profile figures including Miriam Adelson and Isaac Perlmutter
By AP and ToI Staff
In this March 12, 2016, photo Google co-founder Sergey Brin speaks during a press conference after finishing the third match of the Google DeepMind Challenge Match in Seoul, South Korea. (AP Photo/Lee Jin-man, File)
July 10, 2025, 1:01 pm
Google co-founder decries ‘antisemitic’ UN for report on tech aid to Gaza ‘genocide’
Sergey Brin said to tell employees they should ‘be careful citing transparently antisemitic’ UN, after report says company’s cloud support of Israel enables Gaza war crimes
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Anti-Israel demonstrators protest outside the Carrefour group's general meeting of shareholders in Aubervilliers, northern Paris, on May 24, 2024. (Mehdi FEDOUACH / AFP)
June 12, 2025, 10:52 am
Longshot shareholder proposals bring fight over Israel to corporate boardroom
ADL investor advocacy arm JLens, which has challenged Meta on hate speech, says major firms face a flood of anti-Israel measures — few of which succeed
By Zev Stub
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
The ChatGPT app is displayed on an iPhone in New York, May 18, 2023. (AP Photo/ Richard Drew, File)
March 25, 2025, 4:15 pm
Study: ChatGPT, Meta’s Llama and all other top AI models show anti-Jewish, anti-Israel bias
ADL report says Llama most problematic, providing unreliable and sometimes outright false responses to questions related to Jewish people and Israel; Gemini performed best in test
By Zev Stub
Left: 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); Google Cloud offices in Sunnyvale, California, on June 8, 2023. (JHVEPhoto/iStock)
March 18, 2025, 4:45 pm
In biggest exit in Israeli history, Google buys cyber unicorn Wiz for $32 billion
With the acquisition of Wiz, Google’s parent company wants to strengthen its cyber offerings to better compete in the cloud computing race against tech giants Amazon and Microsoft
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
A TikTok logo is shown on a phone in San Francisco, January 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
February 14, 2025, 9:23 am
TikTok returns to Apple and Google app stores in US, after Trump postpones ban
Move comes after US president, who originally supported banning Chinese app for national security reasons, delayed its enforcement after election win
By Zen Soo
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