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Aug 28, 2026, 12:40 AM

Israel Is Building AI’s Safety Layer

On May 28, Anthropic published a 244-page technical report on its newest model and included a number no company has a commercial reason to print. Point a red team at Claude Opus 4.8 while it is driving a web...

David Rosh Pina

Aug 25, 2026, 5:58 PM

The Vision Revolution Israel Is Missing

Amanda Dalbjörn, unsplash

The human augmentation technology that Startup Nation invented and forgot. 1. How Far We Have Come In a previous piece for The Times of Israel, I wrote about how Israel became the world's most consequential computer vision ecosystem, examining breakthroughs, companies,...

Aug 21, 2026, 6:18 PM

Why Your Phone Still Can’t Prove Who You Are

The systems we use to prove who we are still lag behind the rest of our digital lives. Across Israel and the Middle East, people routinely move between government portals, banks, universities, hospitals and employers, each time reconstituting the...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Aug 21, 2026, 8:38 AM

What’s Missing in Policymaking and News Production: Complexity

Everyone knows (sort of) that we live in a “complex world.” But what does that demand of us? This is a double “us”: regarding political policymakers as well as individual citizens. Let’s start with legislators, bureaucrats and the like. Given...

George K. Stein

Aug 18, 2026, 7:31 PM

HaKatze: Velocity.io

Guy Kirschbaum, founding VP engineering @ Velocity.io, pictured in the Velocity offices.

On the ninth floor of the Hagag building on Tel Aviv’s Ha’arba’ah Street, the office of Velocity.io is surprisingly quiet. Only a sprinkle of desks and meeting rooms take up their sleek minimalist offices. A few years ago, a software...

Aug 18, 2026, 6:08 PM

Welcome to my blog

That's a photo of one of my solar projects.

Who am I and why do I want to write a blog now? For starters, I’ve been a writer for as long as I can remember, but always for myself, for school, or for work. Since October 7 hit...

Aug 18, 2026, 12:24 AM

$4 Billion Is Just One Data Point: The Next Wave of Israel-Texas Innovation

In a previous article about "The Two Lone Star States" I stated, "Texas is not just Saudi Arabia with cowboy hats," as a way of describing the diverse economic and industrial landscape beyond the energy sector. I would like...

Aug 11, 2026, 3:50 PM

Israel’s AI Ambitions Can Become a Strategic Asset for the United States

AI innovation - Image courtesy of Shutterstock

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming one of the defining measures of national power. The countries that control advanced computing, AI models, semiconductors, robotics, data infrastructure and the talent required to develop them will enjoy significant economic and military advantages...

Aug 3, 2026, 6:34 PM

How Israeli AI Is Redefining the Future of Sales

In recent pieces, I've explored how Israel has evolved from a cybersecurity and infrastructure powerhouse into a genuine AI leader across enterprise functions. This legacy of security dominance was recently highlighted by the remarkable exit of Wiz to Google. However,...

Aug 2, 2026, 9:41 AM

The Strategic Case for an India-Israel Industrial Partnership

India-Israel Beyond Defense - Realising the Next Phase of Strategic Partnership. An AI Illustration.

The India-Israel relationship is conventionally narrated through defense sales, intelligence sharing, and agricultural technology transfer. This framing, while accurate, is incomplete. It obscures a more consequential possibility: that the two countries’ most durable strategic convergence may lie in co-developing...

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