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While you were scrolling TikTok, its founder became Asia’s richest man

ByteDance and TikTok founder Zhang Yiming, 43, has seen his fortune soar from $13 billion in 2019 to over $105 billion today, driven by AI growth, TikTok’s success and the resolution of its US regulatory hurdle

Calcalist | 09.19.26

MIND CEO Eran Barak, CTO Itai Schwartz and VP of R&D Hod Ben Nun

Israeli cybersecurity startup MIND raises $72 million as AI fuels data-security drive

Crosspoint Capital led the Series B, bringing MIND’s total funding above $112 million as the company expands its AI-based platform for preventing sensitive corporate data leaks across apps, agents and endpoints

ynet Global | 09.18.26

China is building its own Nvidia: Huawei plans new AI chip every year

Chinese tech giant Huawei is set to unveil Ascend 960 chips in a push to close the gap with the US, with annual upgrades doubling computing power and systems linking up to 1 million AI processors

ynet | 09.17.26

When AI turns on the boss: Facebook chatbot tells customer to sue Meta

After eight days of failed attempts to fix an ad system glitch, Facebook’s support bot said it had exhausted its options — then drafted a pre-lawsuit letter to Meta, urged compensation and said the customer would likely win in court

Israel Wullman | 09.17.26

Beyond the breakthrough: inside the Technion labs shaping the technologies of tomorrow

From quantum computing and AI to nanoparticles designed to signal cancer cells to stop dividing, Technion researchers are building the science, engineering and talent needed for technologies whose full potential is still unknown

ynet Global | 09.17.26

OpenAI reveals six cases of ‘unexpected or concerning’ AI behavior as safety debate intensifies

Cases included a research model instructing itself to ignore constraints and an AI agent uploading files without permission, as OpenAI launches a new framework to track and disclose troubling behavior

Associated Press | 09.17.26

Israeli researchers use AI to explain why sinking particles can briefly move upward in liquids

University of Haifa and Tel Aviv University researchers analyzed 321 experiments and used an AI system to derive an equation describing how particles slow, linger and sometimes reverse direction when crossing liquid layers of different densities

ynet | 09.16.26

מימין מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן, מייסד ומנכ"ל אנתרופיק דריו אמודיי מייסד ומנכ"ל SpaceX אילון מאסק

Silicon Valley finally discovered that AI is dangerous just as it ran out of money

Analysis: After years of investing hundreds of billions in the AI race, industry leaders are now calling for a slowdown, increased oversight, tighter regulation; The dangers are real, but behind doomsday warnings lie something far less altruistic

Raphael Kahan | 09.16.26

Senior Google AI researcher quits, warns technology could ‘kill us all’

Bilal Chughtai says humanity may be running out of time to avert catastrophic AI risks, echoing warnings from other industry insiders, while cybersecurity experts argue such doomsday scenarios overlook basic security safeguards

Raphael Kahan | 09.16.26

דונלד טראמפ ושי ג'ינפינג במתחם הגנים ג'ונגננהאי בבייג'ינג, ודברי טראמפ על איראן

AI leaders fear losing control. Trump and China fear losing the global AI race even more

Anthropic’s Dario Amodei, Sam Altman, Elon Musk and Demis Hassabis are calling for stronger safeguards, but Beijing sees US-led restrictions as an attempt to lock in American dominance, while Trump says slowing down could hand China the future

Rephael Kahan | 09.15.26

Trump calls Nvidia’s Jensen Huang onstage, dismisses safety fears: ‘AI will not be taking over’

President tells Nvidia chief the US must beat China in AI, praises data centers and rejects warnings that the technology could threaten humanity

News Agencies | 09.15.26

Battle over AI escalates and Trump attacks those demanding restrictions: 'A sick conspiracy'

Fears about AI dangers are becoming a burning issue in the US midterm elections and, after the storm caused by Anthropic CEO's warning of catastrophe if there is no slowdown in race to 'superintelligence,' Trump sharply attacks him and other industry executives calling for regulation

News Agencies, Daniel Edelson, New York | 09.15.26

Buildots founders (left to right) Roy Danon, Yakir Sudry and Aviv Leibovici

Israeli AI construction startup Buildots raises $130 million to fuel global expansion

New funding values Buildots’ push to bring AI oversight to the $16 trillion construction industry as data center demand surges; its platform is already used by more than 100 major firms, including Intel and Digital Realty

ynet Global | 09.14.26

The technology at center of NAZA storm, and film’s unfounded claim: ‘No such thing as 500 killed in one strike’

Unit 8200 has integrated AI into facial recognition, Arabic-language analysis and target identification, with reservists from Google, Microsoft and Meta helping develop tools the IDF says still require human review before strikes

Elisha Ben Kimon | 09.14.26

Houthis accused of using AI to fake Yemeni general’s retreat order during Mocha offensive

UAE-backed Tareq Saleh’s forces say Houthis cloned his voice to tell troops to pull back as they overran Mocha in a lightning advance toward Bab al-Mandab; claim comes amid separate evidence of AI use by a weapons-development cell in northern Yemen

ynet Global | 09.13.26

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