AI bet goes awry: Oracle fires 21,000 employees
Oracle laid off ~13% of its staff to fund a $300B computing deal with OpenAI. Now, a credit downgrade and $7B in required power grid guarantees put the massive project in jeopardy.
Tech & Start Ups
Who is eligible to be accepted into Sderot’s "tech neighborhood"?
Fig Grows platform to cover full SecOps engineering lifecycle, ensuring resilience at every stage
monday.com to cut 20% of global workforce, more than 600 employees to be laid off
Red Dot winner Yanice Yang pioneers AI-driven health technology through innovative research
Red Dot laureate Yanice Yang is leveraging AI-driven research and design to create new solutions for health monitoring, air quality awareness and human-computer interaction.
Israel on track to record year in public deals with 30 IPOs, $4.1 billion raised, report reveals
In total, 325 deals were made between public and private offerings, making 2026 the third-best year in the last decade, behind 2021 and 2022, according to a report by Grant Thornton Israel.
How the online customer journey changed in 2026 (and what eCommerce brands need to do about it)
From search engines to AI assistants, the customer journey is changing rapidly – and brands must adapt their strategies to stay discoverable.
Israeli PolyPid signs $320 million deal to sell drug preventing surgical infections in US, Canada
D-PLEX100 is designed to provide local, prolonged, and controlled antibacterial activity directly at the surgical site to prevent abdominal surgical site infections.
Relocate or resign: Samsung gives hundreds of US employees an ultimatum
Samsung is relocating its US headquarters from New Jersey to Texas, requiring hundreds of employees to either move more than 2,000 kilometers with the company or leave their jobs.
What investors are looking for in Israel's next generation of startups
Gil Ben-Artzi discusses how AI is changing startup investing, where Israel's competitive advantage lies, and why founders need more than a strong product to succeed in the US
AI and the threat to power grid stability: State freezes approvals for server farms
Israel’s Electricity Authority has frozen approvals for new server farms for 140 days, following an unprecedented surge in connection requests that threatens power grid stability.
Why start-ups are turning to localized social strategies to reach global customers in 2026
5 top rotating proxies: Top picks for reliable scraping
From e-commerce monitoring to AI development, rotating proxies are helping companies collect public web data faster, more reliably and at a global scale.
'Deals happen outside meetings': Hakibbutz unveils first Israeli startup home in New York City
"We didn't want to build just another office space. We wanted to create a place that people and companies genuinely want to be part of," said Amir Wolner, Founder and CEO of Hakibbutz.
