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October 22, 2026 Weekly insights on Israeli tech, venture capital, and AI

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AI Musical Chairs

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Frontier AI labs are raising billions on the strength of elite teams, expensive compute and the promise of AGI, often before proving product-market fit or revenue. As founders and researchers move rapidly between rival labs, investors must ask whether they are funding durable companies or temporary collections of highly portable talent.

How AI’s impact on software is pushing VCs from Bits to Atoms

From bits to atoms VC Cafe

For more than a decade, the venture capital world revolved almost entirely around software, chasing SaaS efficiency, product-led growth, and asset-light digital scale. But today, the energy in the market is shifting. We are quietly navigating the “SaaS-pocalypse” (see my…