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Emirates has wired a privacy screen into premium economy. The harder sell is the hub underneath it.

Emirates has launched a premium economy seat with a full-height privacy divider that raises and locks at the touch of a button, on newly delivered Airbus A350s. The airline described it in a statement on Thursday as the world’s first electrically powered premium economy seat, and the divider as the first of its kind in the cabin […]

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Nvidia stopped funding the AI boom alone, Saudi banks cannot fund theirs, and 500 US towns have banned the buildings

  Nvidia said on Monday it would partner with six of the largest names in private capital to finance AI infrastructure through vehicles worth more than $500 billion. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR are all in. The company has spent recent months lending its own balance sheet to customers so they could […]

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The danger isn’t the AI model. It’s the agent acting on its own, and Zenity raised $125m to watch it.

Most of the money spent guarding AI has gone to the model and the prompt. Zenity has just raised $125m on a different argument: both miss the real danger. That danger is the AI agent that acts on its own. The Israeli startup secures what agents do once a company lets them loose inside its […]

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The chips that wire GPUs together are the new prize. Xsight raised $300m to sell an open one.

The AI boom made GPUs famous. The dull chips that wire thousands of those GPUs together are quietly becoming just as valuable. Xsight Labs, an Israeli chipmaker, has raised more than $300 million at a $2.8 billion valuation, it said on Thursday. Fidelity led the round. That is more than five times what the company […]

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PwC sells advice on using AI responsibly. Its own reports were written by a careless one.

The world’s biggest consultancies are selling companies expensive advice on how to adopt AI without getting burned. Their own reports keep getting burned. PwC is the latest to be caught. Four of its Middle East “thought leadership” reports were a mess, the Financial Times reported. The reports, on AI and electric vehicles, carried fake footnotes, […]

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AI agents don’t log in like people. That problem just sold for $1bn.

Every AI agent a company switches on needs an identity to log in and reach data. Enterprises now run millions of them, with almost no way to keep track. That gap just sold for $1bn. The data-security firm Cyera has agreed to buy Oasis Security for around $1bn, the Wall Street Journal first reported. It […]

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AI broke the patch. This $60m startup is betting on not patching.

A new Israeli security startup has emerged from stealth with $60m. It arrives with an argument the industry has resisted for decades. You cannot patch your way to safety any more, so stop trying. Act Security launched on Tuesday, Calcalist reported. It was founded in 2025 by the team that sold Medigate to Claroty for […]

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Oak raised $60M to give every user, machine, and AI agent one identity system

Most companies still cannot say who, or what, has access to their systems at any given moment. Oak, an Israeli startup, has raised $60M to fix that, and it is betting AI agents make the problem urgent. The company came out of stealth with the seed round, it said. Its aim is an “identity operating […]

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A Face ID pioneer raised $52M to read the brain like a blood test

One of the minds behind Apple’s Face ID wants to point AI at something harder than a face. He wants it to read the brain. His startup, Hemispheric, has come out of stealth with $52M. The Tel Aviv firm calls itself a NeuroAI company, and its pitch is simple. It wants a brain test to […]

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Aikido buys Israel’s Root to patch open source with AI

A Belgian cybersecurity unicorn has bought an Israeli startup with an unusual trick. Its AI agents fix an open-source flaw without breaking the app that depends on it, something most security tools cannot do. Aikido Security, based in Ghent, became Europe’s fastest cybersecurity company to reach a $1bn valuation in January. It has now acquired […]

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