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The dark side of AI revolution: water, power and waste on an unprecedented scale

Nearly four years after ChatGPT’s launch, a new UN study warns the AI boom could consume water equal to the basic needs of 1.5 billion people, generate millions of tons of e-waste and widen the gap between rich and poor nations

Daniela Ginzburg | 06.23.26

מנכ"ל מטא, מארק צוקרברג, בעת הצגת Meta AI

Meta’s AI employee surveillance backfires, exposing workers’ sensitive data

Internal system designed to record keystrokes, mouse clicks and screenshots of Meta employees to train AI models became a major security failure after a permissions flaw exposed personal, medical and financial data inside the company

Raphael Kahan | 06.23.26

Protecting the right to choose in the age of AI

Opinion: Coming out should always be a personal choice, but as AI gets better at connecting the dots, protecting that choice becomes more complicated

Ron De Jesus | 06.23.26

What are Israeli teenagers focused on during a prolonged war?

Israeli teens in Unistream’s Entrepreneur of the Year competition are developing AI tools to fight bullying, support mental health, enable remote rehab and save lives with an automatic tourniquet

ynet Global | 06.23.26

Turning the AI job disruption into a startup pipeline

The platform Tailor Brands says it helps laid-off workers, freelancers and creators handle business registration, tax IDs, compliance and other back-office tasks as more Americans turn to self-employment

ynet Global | 06.23.26

Stuck on the sidewalk: the delivery robot boom runs into potholes and politics

Once hailed as the future of urban logistics, autonomous delivery robots face growing bans and safety concerns from Chicago to Tel Aviv, even as analysts predict a comeback in controlled spaces like office towers

Israel Wullman | 06.22.26

Kalshi’s billion-dollar prediction market began with Kylie Jenner gossip

Co-founder Luana Lopes Lara says speculation over Jenner’s pregnancy helped inspire Kalshi, now a $22 billion platform facing scrutiny over politics, war and sports betting

Lital Semet, Calcalist | 06.21.26

Marvell’s Israeli CTO: ‘The AI market has reached the bottleneck we solve’

Noam Mizrahi says AI’s next leap depends not only on processors but on the networks connecting hundreds of thousands of them, as Marvell rides Nvidia’s endorsement, surging demand and Wall Street’s AI boom

Sophie Shulman/CTech | 06.21.26

The human skills AI still can’t replace

As AI reshapes work, experts say empathy, judgment, relationships, critical thinking and moral instincts remain essential advantages for human workers

Lital Samet, Calcalist | 06.21.26

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US move to restrict Anthropic models turns AI race into geopolitical test

Reported limits on Anthropic’s most advanced models have drawn warnings from tech and cyber experts that safety controls may disrupt research and slow US companies while global rivals move ahead

ynet Global | 06.20.26

Can AI help brands stop looking like AI?

As generative AI makes visual content easier to produce, companies face a new challenge: avoiding the generic look created by the same tools everyone else uses

ynet Global | 06.19.26

Participants attend the AI for Responsible Innovation and Shared Prosperity conference at Microsoft Reactor Tel Aviv, organized by the EU Delegation to Israel, the Embassy of Cyprus and Microsoft Israel

Responsible AI takes center stage at Tel Aviv summit

EU, Cyprus, Microsoft Israel and Generative AI for Good bring diplomats, investors and startups together to promote trusted AI partnerships between Israel and Europe

ynet Global | 06.17.26

Pentagon used Musk’s Grok AI to fire thousands of missiles at Iran, court filing says

Sworn testimony says xAI’s government AI model supported thousands of munitions in 96 hours, fueling new concern in Congress over military use of artificial intelligence

Israel Wullman | 06.17.26

Israel’s first AI prime minister

Opinion: Israel’s next election will center on war, diplomacy and living costs, but its winner may also decide whether the country treats AI, compute, energy and industry as national infrastructure—or falls behind in the race shaping its future

Lior Prosor | 06.17.26

Limitless Lab founders Shahaf Finder, David Priev and Assaf Peleg

Limitless Labs raises $20 million to expand AI platform for precision manufacturing

Tel Aviv-based company says its software is already used by Blue Origin, Cadillac Formula 1, Sandvik and Iscar to reduce CNC programming time and help manufacturers retain expertise as skilled workers retire

ynet Global | 06.16.26