Listen "Episode 64 - OpenAI battles Meta, the Defense Tech fund, Claude's experiment and high-tech fundraising records"
Episode Synopsis
In Israeli tech, the first half of 2025 saw record fundraising, alongside the establishment of a new defense tech investment fund by former intelligence and Air Force veterans. Separately, Shlomo Kramer's Cato Networks raised $359 million at a $4.8 billion valuation. In the AI sector, OpenAI is fighting talent poaching attempts by Meta, while Anthropic tested its AI, Claude, by having it manage a store. Hollywood is also grappling with the technology, facing a "prompting problem" in its pivot to generative AI video. In other tech news, Adobe launched a new computational photography camera app for iPhones, and a "post-hype" review of Android 16 was published.https://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/rye7gzyreghttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/by01t21rxehttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/b1jeoajblghttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/rjfbwokrlghttps://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/06/android-16-review-post-hypehttps://www.calcalist.co.il/calcalistech/article/hkjh7w1rgghttps://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/694687/asteria-bryn-mooser-uncanny-valley-gen-aihttps://www.theverge.com/news/690115/adobe-project-indigo-camera-app-marc-levoy
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