Data

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.
Housing Market in Israel.

Contrary to reports: "Cancellation wave of less than half a percent"

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The strategy of uncertainty: How Amogh Garg plans for the future of AI and cloud compute

Left to right: Avinatan Hassidim, Prof. Tova Milo, Prof. Yossi Matias, Prof. Ariel Porat & Prof. Yishay Mansour

TAU and Google Israel launch three-year program to advance research in artificial intelligence 


Are millions of Elon Musk’s ‘X’ followers fake?

An analysis of Musk’s followers raises red flags about the actual size of his following.

 “Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom of Reach.” Twitter Owner Elon Musk

'Verified human': Worldcoin users queue up for iris scans

Worldcoin's data-collection is a "potential privacy nightmare," said the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a US privacy campaigner.

 A brown eye

AccYouRate to establish data analysis center in Israel

The company is the latest in a long list of companies trusting Israeli know-how with its data analysis.

Artificial intelligence

Databricks launches its LakehouseIQ engine

The move comes on the heels of $1.3 billion acquisition and Israel debut.

 Chatbots, powered by artificial intelligence, have become more widespread in recent years. Meta's AI chatbot, BlenderBot, has recently been saying antisemitic conspiracy theories (Illustrative).

NoTraffic raises $50 million in Series B funding to digitize mobility around the world

The Israeli start-up’s AI-powered solution retrofits onto existing infrastructure, offering traffic management, enhanced safety, and efficiency through a SaaS platform and smart sensor technology.

 The Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv is seen filled with traffic amid an emergency protest following Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's firing of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, on March 26, 2023.

NASA engineers create VR software to visualize a universe of data

Now, a piece of datum wasn't a mark on a screen. It's a thing that can be held, moved, and placed.

 A researcher examines a data cloud in a virtual world created by Virtualitics software. NASA scientists need to sift through massive amounts of data generated by deep space missions. Efforts at JPL into using virtual reality to assist in this analysis led to the creation of Virtualitics

US health department hit by suspected Russian hackers

Believed by researchers to be a Russian-speaking group of hackers, cl0p was recently able to gain access to a wide swathe of organizations' data by compromising MOVEit Transfer

Russian hacking underground newsletter is seen in this illustration taken December 19, 2022

Clalit Healthcare Services uses data scientists for proactive innovation for members

While Clalit’s relative membership has dropped in the last three decades, management is doing its utmost to become the country’s first innovation-driven HMO.

 PROF. RAN BALICER (left) at the inauguration of the Clalit-Harvard Berkowitz Living Lab in Jerusalem, with Prof. Isaac Kohane, chairman of the Department of Biomedical Informatics at Harvard Medical School.

Making social media a winning strategy for Israel - opinion

How do we deliver more Israel-related content to more people, especially those who don't typically see it?

 9 out of 10 Gen Z's spend more than an hour on social media each day, and yet report not seeing content about Israel over an entire year"

LinkedIn’s recruiting diversity filter may make it racist in the eyes of some