<ul><li>Israeli culture continues to celebrate 'Firgun', which describes genuine, unselfish delight or pride in the accomplishment of the other person.</li><li>Yahya Sinwar, responsible for the massacre of over 1,200 Israelis, is dead and 101 hostages remain a priority.</li><li>Israeli startups have raised $7.4B in 330 deals in the first 9 months of 2024.</li><li>Six new Israeli unicorns were created in Q1-Q3/2024.</li><li>M&A in the first 9 months of 2024 reached $12.9B, despite the war.</li><li>Elon Musk's SpaceX accomplished a historic feat, catching a 19-story tall rocket booster in mid-air.</li><li>NVIDIA launched a new open-source 70B model that beats GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet.</li><li>Adobe launched its Firefly AI video model, Google launched new features for its increasingly popular NotebookLM.</li><li>Voice AI remains dominant with Crunchbase reporting the continued demonstrated ascent of AI.</li><li>The Israeli trail data loss prevention tech was acquired by unicorn Cyera for $162M.</li></ul>

Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – October 18 2024

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