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James Spiro hosts The Spiro Circle, a news show with 82 episodes published.
Every boardroom in the world is having the same conversation right now. A vendor pitches an AI product. Someone on the executive team then asks the question that has become the most disruptive five words in enterprise so
Last week, I heard a number that should terrify every founder raising a Series A. Between 50% and 60% of Israeli tech startups that reach round A never make it to round B. Think of it: You’ve pitched, hustled, and convin
I’ll be honest: I entered into this most recent conversation for The Spiro Circle knowing almost nothing about quantum computing. I said as much to my guest, Itamar Sivan, co-founder and CEO of Quantum Machines, before w
Imagine the scene: A developer at a large financial institution merged a routine code update. Nothing alarming yet, just a minor change that, on its own, meant little. But Terra Security’s AI agents were watching. AI age
There’s a new security risk out there, and it’s come to be known as The Shadow AI Problem. It suggests that the next major corporate data breach may not come from a sophisticated nation-state actor or a phishing campaign
This isn’t the first time I’ve covered Israel’s foodtech sector. Back in 2022, reporting for CTech, I mapped the ecosystem at a moment of tension, when investment was holding up better than in any other tech vertical, bu
Datarails CRO Aviv Canaani has an unusual vantage point. He runs the full revenue engine of the financial planning and analysis platform for Microsoft Excel users — sales, marketing, partnerships — from New Jersey, while
Every few years, a new American administration arrives in the Middle East convinced it can start fresh. Trump’s team was no different. They came to the problem with a clean slate and nothing but the confidence of a New Y
As conflict dynamics shift across the Middle East, from disrupted shipping lanes to drone warfare, a new question is emerging: who controls the software behind autonomous systems? Military power used to depend on access
I know better than anyone that there’s a version of Startup Nation that the world is perfectly happy to celebrate. The record exits, the Wiz acquisition - $15.6 billion raised in 2025, with exits totalling $74 billion. T
There is a record being broken in America right now, and almost nobody is talking about it. According to U.S. Census Bureau data, 5.48 million new businesses were formed in 2023 — the highest annual total ever recorded.
The last two years in AI have been disorienting. Every week brought a new model, a new product launch announced on X, and a new reason to reconsider assumptions that felt settled only months before. For startups trying t
Lior Yogev says he’s barely been home in three months. The FundGuard CEO and co-founder has spent the better part of the year in client meetings, and the conversation at every stop has been a variation of the same thing.
When the US and Israel launched Operation Epic Fury, the opening moves were not B-2 bombers or Tomahawk missiles. Before the first strike aircraft crossed into Iranian airspace, Iran’s radars had already been blinded, it
We were told never to get into a stranger’s car. Yet millions of us do it every day. The rules most people grew up with (“don’t talk to strangers online”, “never open the door to someone you don’t know”) have been disman
I’ve written extensively about Europe and its tech sector for many years. For some, it seems slow, stagnant, and tied up in regulatory bureaucracy. For others, it is a champion in responsible data protection and privacy
The joint US-Israeli operation against Iran — the most significant military collaboration between the two countries in modern history — validated a thesis that Protego Ventures had been building since October 7, 2023. Th
Every time Anthropic drops a product update on X, a startup somewhere dies. That’s the sentiment across the startup world right now. Claude can do new things each week that were once considered core products of companies
When fans walk into Wembley Stadium or Wimbledon, they see the show - but what they don’t see is everything underneath it: An ‘invisible’ workforce working hard in unison, powering the global experience economy to make s
When Gal Elbaz decided to hack Instagram, he didn’t need much convincing. “We wanted to hack Instagram because they’re Instagram, right? We don’t need a lot of motivation,” the co-founder and CTO of Oligo Security told m
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