Artificial intelligence
Digital Pharaohs: Egypt’s AI sovereignty drive - opinion
By localizing AI training and autonomy, Egypt is reducing Western dependence and challenging Israel’s ability to predict its military evolution.
Israeli security firm SenAI raises $6.2 million in seed round to expand into US market, B2B model
Nvidia CEO: 'The implications of building AI infrastructure in Israel are profound'
Google upgrades Chrome: Gemini will become a personal agent
AI, defense tech, and cyber: How safe is the future of dual-use defense? - opinion
Artificial intelligence is transforming defense - AI expands the attack surface in unprecedented ways. Models can be manipulated through poisoned training data or adversarial inputs
OpenAI’s Altman downplays Moltbook hype, touts autonomous AI future
Altman spoke at the Cisco AI Summit in San Francisco as tech leaders weighed in on Moltbook, a Reddit-like site where AI bots swap code and gossip about their human owners.
SpaceX acquires xAI for $250 billions, positioning itself for potential IPO worth $1.5 trillion
The deal, worth $250 billion according to The Information, aims to improve SpaceX's position in its reportedly future IPO, which is being described as potentially the biggest in history.
Israeli startup ORION raises $32 million in Series A round, with investments from IBM, Norwest
PICO Venture Partners, Lama Partners, and others who had already invested in the company during the seeding round participated in this Series A round alongside IBM and Norwest.
OpenAI ditches Nvidia for faster AI inference chips, threatening chipmaker's dominance
Nvidia remains dominant in chips for training large AI models, while inference has become a new front in the competition.
Ex-employee alleges Google helped IDF contractor with AI, breached ethics policy - report
The complaint was filed with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and alleged that Google breached its own “AI principles" in a customer support response.
UAE made secret $500 million investment in Trump-linked crypto firm - WSJ
The $500 million investment granted the Emiratis 49% of World Liberty Financial, a fledgling cryptocurrency venture owned by the Trump family.
AI swarms could invade social media, threaten democracy, study warns
“Humans, generally speaking, are conformist. That's something that can relatively easily be hijacked by these swarms," said Kunst.
The ground loyal wingman and the future of manned-unmanned combat - opinion
If the skies have become dangerous, the ground battlefield has become a truly lethal trap. So instead of adding more and more soldiers or additional manned combat platforms, we add robots.
How AI is bringing the dead back and what that means for the living
A new study by Tom Divon, a media and cultural researcher from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, explores the use of generative AI to recreate deceased individuals' likenesses.
