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Your Taxes: What to consider before any merger and acquisition deal

Mergers and acquisition deals tend to be 10% economic, 10% tax, 10% legal, and 70% psychological. The “smell of the money” affects people’s behavior in many deals.

 AS THE US and China battle it out over supply chains and global trade flows, Israel, also the subject of US tariffs, finds itself navigating particularly complex terrain. Here, a man looks at a screen showing Chinese stock market movements, as he uses his mobile phone in Beijing on Monday.
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Protecting journalists and public figures: WhatsApp launches new update

An antisemitism hashtag, illustrating online antisemitic hate speech.

Online antisemitism grows smarter, faster, and harder to stop, CyberWell report shows

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Google upgrades Chrome: Gemini will become a personal agent


DeepMind UK staff plan to unionize and challenge deals with Israel links

Media reports that suggest Google is selling its cloud services and AI technology to the Israeli defense ministry have caused disquiet among employees, according to the report.

DeepMind logo is seen in this illustration taken February 16, 2025.

Google tries to speak dolphin: New artificial intelligence may enable conversation with the marine

Google unveiled DolphinGemma, a unique AI model aiming to understand and mimic dolphin communication. It has already managed to generate dolphin-like acoustic sequences.

 The dolphin being studied is of the Stenella frontalis species. Complex communication signals

Google’s new brain open to all: The advanced Gemini 2.5 released to the public

With Gemini 2.5’s public release, Google promises major updates. Over the same weekend, OpenAI faced heavy server loads due to a new feature it launched, highlighting intense AI competition.

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Google launches Gemini 2.5: A “thinking” AI with advanced edge capabilities

Unveiled months after Gemini 2.0, the new model excels in code, math, and science. It handles vast data, works with discretion, and understands context and complexity.

 Google’s new technology – Gemini

Google announces new AI aimed at communicating with dolphins

The system, called DolphinGemma, has already managed to generate dolphin-like acoustic sequences and is based on data collected over four decades in the wild.

Stenella frontalis.

As Gemini 2.5 is released to the public, OpenAI struggles with server loads

While OpenAI servers buckled under massive demand for its new image animation tool, Google launched its most advanced AI brain yet to the public.

 With Gemini Live, the software gains a new ability: live video processing and screen sharing.

President Herzog congratulates WIZ CEO Assaf Rappaport: 'An unimaginable achievement'

The president congratulated Wiz CEO Assaf Rappaport on the largest acquisition of an Israeli company, a venture-backed startup, and by Google.

 Herzog congratulates WIZ CEO Rapaport

Why is Google paying so much for Wiz?

Google’s $32B Wiz acquisition raises questions on strategy, AI competition, and cloud dominance as investors react skeptically to the record deal.

 Wiz and Google company logos seen on the smartphone and laptop screens.

Alphabet to buy Wiz for $32 billion in its biggest deal to boost cloud security

The all-cash buyout comes after Wiz rejected a $23 billion bid from Alphabet last year due to concerns about antitrust approvals and its aim to focus on an initial public offering.

 The Wiz website on a laptop arranged in New York, US, on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. Google parent Alphabet Inc. is in talks to acquire cybersecurity startup Wiz Inc., according to a person familiar with the matter.

You won’t believe what your phone will do: Google makes history

Google’s artificial intelligence engine adds a development that can “see” the screen and respond with relevant information. Initially, the addition will only be available to Android users.

 With Gemini Live, the software gains a new ability: live video processing and screen sharing.