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Former Mossad chief Yossi Cohen joined Japanese investment fund SoftBank five years ago as the head of Israeli operations within the partnership established by Vision Fund 2. Now Cohen has been appointed by the fund’s founder, chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son as strategic advisor, “Globes” has learned. He now holds a more senior position that…

ChipAgents, a US-based provider of agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, has announced an additional USD 60 million in Series A2 financing, bringing the expanded round to USD 134 million just six months after its initial Series A close, with new investor B Capital joining Bessemer Venture Partners, Micron, MediaTek, Ericsson, ScOp, and…

Add to Google Preferred Sources AI data company Mercor has begun purchasing internal datasets from failed or acquired startups, including Slack chat logs, Google Drive files, emails, and Zoom meeting recordings, with individual offers reaching as high as $300,000. AI agent startup Warmly received an acquisition offer from Mercor just eight days after announcing its…