Innovation

Q-Factor emerges as Israel’s latest quantum computing developer with $24 million seed investment

The investment, which included NFX, TPY Capital, and Intel Capital, aims to commercialize a quantum computing project developed by professors from the Technion and Weizmann Institute.

Q-Factor is led by professors from the Technion, the Weizmann Institute, and experts in the world of deep-tech startups.
Nvidia.

Nvidia doesn’t stop: Invests $2 billion in AI hardware giant

Robotic vacuum-mop.

Stepping forward with a mechanical leg: A leap in robotic vacuum-mop technology

WhatsApp users.

Finally: Artificial Intelligence arrives on WhatsApp in a new update


From scale to substance: Israeli tech’s 2025 turning point - analysis

How discipline, concentration, and execution replaced speed and hype – signalling a more mature, resilient era for the Start-Up Nation

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Israeli mathematician uses AI to decode human immune system

How an Israeli mathematician is using AI to decode the human immune system and transform patient treatment

Noam Solomon, CEO of Immunai, is using AI technology to map a key part of the human physiology – the immune system – and help discover and develop therapeutics that will ultimately save lives.

Google's new AI system personalizes search results based on users' emails, photos

The new core function enables AI Mode to analyse content in Gmail and Google Photos to provide more accurate results when the user searches on Google.

The Google logo is seen on the Google house at CES 2024, an annual consumer electronics trade show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, US, January 10, 2024.

Dr. Micha Breakstone: Entrepreneur who sold his AI company for $575m turns to decoding human cells

After selling his previous AI company for $575 million, Breakstone said he felt a responsibility to apply his experience to challenges with broader societal impact.

Dr. Micha Breakstone: An entrepreneur who sold his AI company for $575m turns to decoding human cells.

Experts warn of risks as next-generation AI moves toward autonomous decision-making

Leaders from Intel, Google, Rafael, and academia met in Haifa to discuss efficiency, regulation, and responsibility in advanced AI systems.

(From right): Rony Shalit, Dr. Nava Shaked, Professor Eduard Yakubov, and Samuel Goldberg

Montreal–Israel tech ties strengthen at cyber event

A growing Montreal–Israel tech network spotlights innovation and tackles rising cyber risks while building cross‑community ties

Handshake between the flags of Israel and Canada

Colorful logo and new font: Leumit Health Services launches a new communication language

The new communication language introduces a facelift with a shift from the traditional blue and green colors to shades of purple, combining attentiveness and care with strength and progress.

Leumit.

Your Investments: If you don’t understand it, don’t invest in it

If a belief, value, or investment cannot be explained clearly, it is unlikely to endure. A sound financial plan should be understandable.

New Israeli Shekel bills are seen in front of an upwards-trending graph (illustration)

80% lower costs: The Israeli innovation shaking up the cultured food market

An Israeli startup revealed a hydrogel-based platform that cuts cultured food production costs and could speed the shift to sustainable alternatives to animal-based products.

Cultured meat.

Israeli scientists create light-activated plastic for safer manufacturing

The Ben-Gurion team essentially embedded an on/off mechanism inside the plastic’s building blocks, eliminating the need for fragile or expensive catalyst systems.

Member of the study into  a new class of latent monomers.