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Iddo Gino credit: Eyal Izhar Nokia acquires Israeli API co Rapid

Valued at $1 billion two years ago, the company is mainly being bought for its $150 million in cash and less for its API platform.

Matanyahu Englman Photo: Yossi Zamir State Comptroller slams gov't for Israel's AI lag

Israel's decline in international AI rankings is blamed on low priority, under-funding, amateurish management, lack of control, and a surplus of political bodies.

Cyberattack credit: Shutterstock Financial cos briefed on thwarting imminent Iranian cyberattack

The Bank of Israel held a meeting yesterday to explain to financial service companies how to ward off the planned cyberattack by Iran's Anonymous for Justice group.

Nadav Shoval credit: Open Web Court rejects Nadav Shoval's petition against OpenWeb ouster

Tel Aviv District Court Judge Ariel Zimmerman: The petition complains of an infringement of rights that do not exist.

Plarium credit: Shutterstock Sweden's MTG buys Israeli gaming co Plarium for up to $820m

Australian company Aristocrat is selling Plarium after buying the company in 2017 for $700 million.

ScaleOps founders CEO Yodar Shafrir and CTO Guy Baron credit: ScaleOps Israeli cloud management co ScaleOps raises $58m

ScaleOps optimizes resources with its fully automated, real-time cloud resource management platform powered by AI.

Intel plant in Petah Tikva credit: Intel Over 1,000 Intel Israel employees leave the company

For the first time in a decade, Israel's biggest private employer has less than 10,000 employees. "Globes" talks to Intel Israel employees and former employees.

Eran Zinman and Roy Mann  credit: Netanel Tobias Monday.com plunges despite beating analysts, raising guidance

The assessment on the market is that the reason for the sell-off is profit taking, after a 73% rise in the share price in the year to date.

Supercomputer credit: Shutterstock Amazon, Google to compete for Israel's supercomputer tender

The budget for building the supercomputer is NIS 300 million, of which NIS 150 million will be allocated to the budget of the Innovation Authority administration and NIS 150 million in financing for the tech giant that wins the tender.

Dovi Frances with Donald Trump credit: Group 11 Dovi Frances to help set up Israel AI National Directorate

Although an AI directorate already exists in the Innovation Authority, Frances will act as advisor to a new directorate in the Prime Minister's Office, possibly with involvement of Elon Musk, "Globes" has learned.

Amiram Shachar credit: Upwind Israeli cybersecurity co Upwind raises $100m - report

Upwind, cofounded in 2022 by CEO Amiram Shachar, who previously founded cloud security management company Spot.io, which was sold to NetApp for $450 million in 2020, is raising the money at s $850-900 million valuation, "TechCrunch" reports.

Adaptive Shield team credit: Assaf Shushan CrowdStrike buys Israeli cloud security co Adaptive Shield

The acquisition price has not been disclosed, but it is estimated at $300 million, which represents a handsome return for investors in the Tel Aviv-based startup.

NextSilicon CEO Elad Raz credit: Allblocks NextSilicon welcomes rival Nvidia's Blackwell platform

Elad Raz, CEO of Israeli chip unicorn NextSilicon insists that the company's new Maverick chip beats Nvidia's chips in terms of performance-to-power-consumption ratio.

Amnon Shashua  credit: Yonatan Hefner Mobileye recognizes $2.7b goodwill loss

The company's share price is rising sharply on Wall Street despite the write down recorded in its third quarter results.

Verax AI founders Leonid Fainberg and Oren Gev credit: Maxim Golovnov Israeli AI software co Verax AI raises $7.6m

Verax AI develops enterprise-grade software solutions that provide visibility and control of AI in production.

MIND founders Hod Ben Nun, Eran Barak and Itay Schwartz credit: Ohad Kab Israeli data loss prevention co MIND raises $11m

MIND was cofounded in 2023 by CEO Eran Barak, who previously founded Hexadite which was acquired in 2017 by Microsoft for $100 million.

Granulate founders Asaf Ezra and Tal Saiag credit: Cadya Levy Intel closes Granulate, lays off dozens

Granulate joins many other of Intel's Israeli acquisitions which have been closed, including Replay, Oplus and DSPC.

Gil Shwed  credit: Cadya Levy Check Point plunges on Q3 results

Despite meeting the analysts' consensus in Gil Shwed's last full quarter as CEO, investors are concerned about the company's forecasts.

Armis Founders Yevgeny Dibrov and Nadir Izrael credit: Armis Israeli co Armis Security raises $200m at $4.3b valuation

The cybersecurity company's valuation has risen $900 million since its most recent financing round less than three years ago.

Intel and Nvidia offices in Israel credit: Intel and Nvidia In Israel Nvidia snaps up employees leaving Intel

Intel's layoffs coincide with major expansion in Israel by its rival Nvidia, which is taking advantage of the situation.

Granulate founders Asaf Ezra and Tal Saiag credit: Cadya Levy Intel weighs up future of $650m Israeli acquisition Granulate

Intel is mulling whether to downsize, sell or shut down the cloud optimization solutions company.

OneStep founders credit: PR Walk quality monitoring co OneStep raises $36m

The Israeli company aims to establish gait analysis as a mainstream tool in health monitoring and improvement.

Nadav Zafrir credit: Shlomi Yosef Check Point up 22% since new CEO announced

The cybersecurity company has consolidated its position as Israel's most valuable company since the announcement of Nadav Zafrir's appointment in late July.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp at Tel Aviv University  credit: Shachar Shachar, spokesperson, Tel Aviv University Norwegian firm disinvests from Palantir over Israel ties

Storebrand Asset Management said Palantir was aiding Israeli surveillance of Palestinians. Palantir's share price rose 3% on Friday.

Intel fab construction credit: Intel Intel Israel to lay off several hundred after holidays

Several hundred out of Intel's 11,000 employees in Haifa, Petah Tikva, Jerusalem and Kiryat Gat will receive dismissal notices in the coming month.

Trail Security founders credit: PR Cyera buys Israeli cybersecurity co Trail Security

The Israeli DSPM company will pay $162 million in cash and shares for Trail Security, which was only founded last year.

Laminar founders Amit Shaked and Oran Avraham credit: Laminar Rubrik unveils Israel-developed DSPM for Microsoft 365 Copilot

The technology integrated into Copilot was largely developed at Rubrik’s R&D center in Israel, which was established following the acquisition of Israeli startup Laminar.

Oracle credit: Sundry Photography Shutterstock Oracle shelves plans to build data center in Israel

The tech giant will likely build its AI data center in the UAE because of the war and lower costs, "Globes" has learned. Oracle: Israel’s second center will be built.

Adv. Vered Zlaikha and Adv. Gilad Semama credit: Dafna Cohen Privacy Protection chief: New regulations prevent cyberattacks

Adv. Vered Zlaikha, Partner and the Head of Cyber Affairs & AI Practice at Lipa Meir & Co: As part of preparations for the amendment coming into effect, organizations must already take a series of steps to ensure closing the gaps in relation to the requirements of the law.

Nessim-Sariel Gaon, Omer Adam, Maor Melul  credit: Idan Cohen, Europe-Israel Mizrahi Tefahot lends Omer Adam's server farm co NIS 410m

The loan will finance construction by Anan Data Centers of a server farm beside Kibbutz Tsor’a with an eventual output of 32 megawatts.

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