Meir Orbach / CTech:
Israeli startup Onyx Security, which helps secure and manage AI agents' operational risks, raised a $35M Series A led by Conviction, after a $5M seed in 2024  —  The Israeli startup develops a platform to secure and manage AI systems as they become integral to business operations.

Sofia Chierchio / Forbes:
Sources: after Google's $32B deal, each of Wiz's four co-founders is set to get $2B in post-tax cash; Index is set to net $4B, Insight $2.7B, and Sequoia $3B  —  Two years after rejecting a $23 billion offer, Israel-based Wiz secured the largest acquisition in Google's history …

Yazhou Sun / Bloomberg:
Israeli-Dutch startup Wonderful AI, which offers AI agents that can handle customer conversations across voice, chat, and more, raised $150M at a $2B valuation  —  Israeli startup Wonderful has raised $150 million in funding that will accelerate its deployment of artificial intelligence-powered customer support agents.

Tim Fernholz / TechCrunch:
Google Research launches Groundsource, a geo-tagged time series dataset created by using Gemini to extract 2.6M flood events from 5M historical news articles  —  Flash floods are among the deadliest weather events in the world, killing more than 5,000 people each year.  They're also among the most difficult to predict.

Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Sources: India plans to unveil a ~$10.8B fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking, including subsidizing chip design projects and manufacturing equipment  —  India plans to unveil a more than 1 trillion rupee ($10.8 billion) fund aimed at bolstering domestic chipmaking …