AI safety has professional champions on every side, with funding, careers and commercial interests shaping the debate. From a venture investor’s perspective, how do we separate evidence from advocacy, assess the trade-offs and identify where Israeli startups can contribute?
AI now leads a quarter of Anthropic’s own R&D, and an independent review finds its progress running at nearly twice its earlier pace. What does that feedback loop mean for the speed of AI, for oversight, and for where startups can build?
YC’s Winter 2027 requests point towards the practical work of deploying AI. Alongside original publications from Pear, a16z, Menlo and QED, they offer a useful guide to investor interest and a starting point for founders’ customer research.
Israelis are flying home to vote while the tech community keeps building. This week’s #FIRGUN celebrates fresh funding, acquisitions and new funds, alongside AI mega-rounds, Anthropic’s IPO preparations and reminders that trust and security must keep pace with innovation.
Three years after October 7, this week’s #FIRGUN celebrates the people building forward - a lot has changed, but we should also appreciate what changed for the better
AI agents hacked government portals, broke into Hugging Face and tried to cover their tracks this year. A VC's guide to the startups building the brakes for rogue AI, why Israel's Irregular sits at the centre of the story, and why self-improving agents make the problem harder.
Courage at 30,000 feet, $13.2B raised by Israeli startups in nine months, and a week of agent security rounds, a 10-month exit to Nebius, and a new defence-tech fund.
Jev does not generate text. It turns unstructured state into typed, probabilistic decisions in milliseconds and at a fraction of the cost of frontier LLMs. Here is why TypeSafe’s first “System One” model could become a new decision layer for AI agents, automation and data analysis.
The model providers powering AI startups are increasingly competing for their customers. From Claude for Financial Services to ChatGPT for small businesses, the move into applications is testing the defensibility of vertical and agentic AI. For founders, the question is what customers will keep paying for when competitors, internal teams and infrastructure providers can deliver the same core capabilities.
A Rosh Hashanah edition of #FIRGUN celebrating Israeli startup funding and exits, alongside new AI models, mega-rounds and major acquisitions around the world. We also mark 25 years since September 11, holding remembrance alongside hope for a sweeter, more peaceful year.
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