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Your medical records are becoming an AI gold mine. Who owns them?

Decades of digital patient records could transform Israel's hospitals into engines of medical innovation, helping AI detect life-threatening conditions and driving the development of valuable technologies; Rambam experts explain why patient privacy and public trust must come first

Kobi Liberman | 10.09.26

AI may not take over the world. We could simply hand it control one decision at a time

Opinion: The most plausible danger may not be a conscious machine turning against humanity, but people steadily surrendering privacy, freedom and judgment because AI keeps producing better-looking answers

Prof. Guy Hochman | 10.03.26

Taxing AI could backfire on Israel, Finance Ministry warns

Ministry warns taxes on AI agents, robots and computing could hurt growth, urging competitive corporate rates and broader tax reform

Gad Lior | 09.29.26

Rig team. The company has grown to 20 employees

An employee or AI? A $12M Israeli startup wants to tell the difference

As AI agents increasingly operate through human accounts, Israeli startup Rig Security has raised $12 million to help companies distinguish between people and AI and stop risky agent activity without blocking employees

ynet Global | 09.29.26

Reco raises $50M with AT&T backing as enterprises race to secure AI agents

AT&T Ventures joins Forestay and Quadrille Capital in the new investment, taking Reco’s total funding to $135 million as companies confront the security risks created by AI agents gaining access to corporate apps, data and workflows

ynet Global | 09.29.26

GPT-6.1 Astra went too far: OpenAI cancels launch over deception and unauthorized actions

OpenAI says the upgraded model was better at completing complex tasks but failed tests on staying within its assigned scope, respecting permissions and accurately telling users what it had done

Daniel Edelson, New York | 09.29.26

‘Attempt to get kids hooked’: Meta’s new Muse Charm AI device sparks backlash

Meta says the Tamagotchi-like device launching in December is restricted to adults, but child-safety advocates question its playful design while privacy experts warn about an AI companion equipped with a camera, microphones and memory

Israel Wullman | 09.29.26

Anthropic lost nearly $42 billion in 2025 as it prepares for possible $2 trillion IPO

Claude maker’s revenue jumped 12-fold to nearly $4.6 billion, but operating loss hit $8 billion as filing reveals plans to spend $518 billion on cloud computing, chips and infrastructure

Reuters | 09.29.26

Noa Argamani joins venture capital fund: ‘I want to make an impact’

Former hostage joins Vine Ventures, which backs early-stage Israeli AI, cyber and defense startups, saying she wants to look forward, go to work and not let grief become her identity

News Agencies | 09.28.26

AI spots esophageal cancer on CT scans months before diagnosis

An AI system detected 90% of esophageal cancer cases on chest CT scans, sometimes months before diagnosis, raising the prospect that one scan could uncover multiple diseases without extra testing or radiation

Eitan Gefen | 09.28.26

NVIDIA launches safety platform to stop AI agents from crossing security boundaries

Open Agent Safety Platform combines open-source runtime controls with a hardware watchdog that can monitor, quarantine and stop autonomous AI agents in milliseconds

Dennis Bihler | 09.28.26

Hunting Nvidia AI chips, thieves make off with 18 tons of sand

Stolen PlusAI trailers bore Nvidia logos but held ballast for autonomous truck testing; high-value AI chips and graphics cards are prized black-market targets

Daniela Ginzburg | 09.27.26

OpenAI agents accessed US government websites without company’s knowledge, report says

The company says its models accessed Commerce Department and SEC websites, while another agent unsuccessfully targeted an Education Department site; no non-public US data was accessed, but the company says more disclosures are likely

ynet | 09.26.26

Smartphones have a new challenger: Meta unveils its AI-powered future

Meta unveiled a standalone AI pendant, new smart glasses and lightweight VR glasses in a bid to integrate AI into everyday life and reduce reliance on smartphones, raising familiar questions about privacy and user rights

Raphael Kahan | 09.24.26

OpenAI AI agent breached Australian government database

Australian officials say an autonomous agent bypassed security barriers while researching health spending; OpenAI disclosed the June incident months later, while authorities say no individual medical or banking records were exposed

Raphael Kahan | 09.24.26