Journalist and Founder of The Spiro Circle | Seen on @Forbes | Formerly @Calcalistech | Written work: @JNS_org, @TimesofIsrael | TV: @i24News_EN, @ILTVNews
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‼️ Cyber Founders: Beware The “Poison Pill” Of High Valuations!
I speak to @Akamai's SVP and General Manager of Enterprise Security, Ofer Wolf, about Israel's cybersecurity M&A boom, and where sky-high valuations can become a strategic trap for young founders.
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James Spiro retweeted
Startup Genome ranked Tel Aviv fifth globally for AI-native startup activity, reflecting the growing role of artificial intelligence in the city’s innovation ecosystem and showing promising signs of the state-level bet to become a “Systems Nation” to build the national-scale infrastructure, compute and sovereign capabilities on which startups depend
by @JamesSpiro
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🇮🇱 Tel Aviv remains the world’s fourth-largest startup ecosystem despite wartime pressures.
It has a value of $250 BILLION and shows the Israeli city behind only Silicon Valley, New York, and London.
What this says about @Israel's future for @JNS_org > jns.org/news/israel-news/tel…
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Billionaire investor @BillAckman also praised @Israel’s ability to overcome challenges:
“This is a country that has proven itself extraordinarily over the last two years, both militarily and technologically,” he said.
jns.org/news/israel-news/tel…
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Tesla, Waymo, and the Self-Driving Race Nobody's Won Yet
@Autobrains_AI CEO Igal Raichelgauz breaks down why the real prize in autonomous driving isn't the robotaxi market, but rather the 1.5 billion regular cars on the road today that @Tesla, @Waymo, and Chinese players can't touch.
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Hitting my exercise and move goals early in the morning but failing to reach my stand targets because I’m too “locked in” afterwards 😐
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Fascinating read:
- New parents often have short-term loss of brain volume, but older parents tend to have larger and healthier brains than their childless retired friends.
- This might have something to do with the fact that caring for young children can be exhausting at first, but over time parenting is intensely social, and socialization tends to be neuroprotective in the long run.
- It is scientifically valid to argue that becoming a father is both a brain-shrinking and brain-expanding life choice.
More: derekthompson.org/p/why-do-r…
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Once again, projection.
Jun 16
Palestine didn’t “fail to qualify” for the World Cup.
Israel literally killed everyone on the team.
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And then what happened?
16 Jun 2015
Donald Trump just became the 12th Republican to enter the presidential race. That's pretty much all we've got.
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‼️ Cyber Founders: Beware The “Poison Pill” Of High Valuations!
I speak to @Akamai's SVP and General Manager of Enterprise Security, Ofer Wolf, about Israel's cybersecurity M&A boom, and where sky-high valuations can become a strategic trap for young founders.
thespirocircle.com/p/cyber-f…
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Raise too high, and you haven’t built a war chest, you’ve actually shrunk your buyer list to almost nobody.
“Your valuation decision has set the future of the company to be a different future,” he said. “[It’s] probably the most strategic decision that is overlooked.”
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Jun 16
Israel’s Likud party has reportedly scrapped a planned election campaign highlighting Netanyahu’s close ties to President Trump in wake of US-Iran deal.
Elections are in October. US Midterms are a week later 👀
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Jun 16
I love that animation is finally exploring different styles, but I believe old IP should be grandfathered in its original form.
Give new creative designs to new stories and characters!
Jun 16
The first trailer for ‘SHREK 5’ has been released.
In theaters on June 30, 2027.
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Jun 16
With the Strait of Hormuz back in the news, hear how AI could help sailors and governments navigate the wild west of deadly seas.
From March, when Iran firt started mining, and what USA did next:
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Iran's mines and GPS jamming are turning the Strait of Hormuz into a war zone.
Sailors are terrified. AI can help them.
Watch:
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Jun 16
From an episode in March: "Iran Mined the Strait of Hormuz. Now AI Has to Navigate It."
>> thespirocircle.com/p/iran-st…
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Jun 16
Let’s get this straight: In 2020/21, governments forced citizens to get COVID jabs lest they be shunned from public life.
If their effect was questioned, you would be deemed a conspiracy theorist.
Now governments are accused of not doing enough for those left disabled by them?
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Jun 16
"Like Talking to a London Cabbie": Building Trust Into Self-Driving Cars | @ForbesIsrael
Safety statistics just aren't enough. @Autobrains_AI founder and CEO Igal Raichelgauz joins me to discuss why *explainability* is key to getting people comfortable handing over the wheel to AI.
His vehicles, therefore, narrate their own decisions to build passenger trust. It's something I equate to a London cab driver who can explain why he chose the route he drove.
Full episode is live on The Spiro Circle: thespirocircle.com/p/robotax…
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Jun 15
Important to note that I just verified my age due to “length you have had an Apple account”.
No digital ID was uploaded to the government system to bypass this.
Do with that information what you will. 🤷♂️
Jun 15
🚨 SUMMARY: The UK's social media ban for children from early 2027:
- "User-to-user" apps where people create, share and interact with content (e.g. TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, YouTube, X, Facebook) will be banned for under-16s
- WhatsApp, Signal and YouTube Kids will be exempt
- Under-16s will also be banned from livestreaming, messaging strangers on gaming apps like Discord and using disappearing messages
- 16 and 17 year olds will face nightly social media curfews and limits on infinite scrolling with more details next month
- AI "romantic companion" chatbots will be banned for under-18s
- Adults can still access social media through age checks like facial recognition, digital IDs, passports and credit cards
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Jun 15
New for @ForbesIsrael: “Writing the code is only the first part,” Arito CEO Daniel Zahavi told me. “Maintenance is a way, way bigger part of creating it the first time... A lot of the actual challenge continues afterwards.”
This is the consideration in the ‘Build vs. Buy’ debate that goes ignored. The prototype is cheap, but maintenance is not. And unlike a purchased product, where maintenance, iteration, and accountability belong to the vendor, the self-built version belongs to whoever built it, permanently.
Learn more about AI's New "Build vs. Buy" Dilemma, here: forbes.co.il/e/inside-ais-ne…
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Jun 15
Preview: Zahavi makes a three-part argument for why the current wave of "we'll just build it ourselves" thinking in AI represents the top of the hype cycle.
youtube.com/watch?v=0-6kj65X…
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