Episode 64 - OpenAI battles Meta, the Defense Tech fund, Claude's experiment and high-tech fundraising records
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…
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