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Silas Anastacio

Oct 2, 2026, 10:57 PM

Postdoctoral Fellowship for Brazilians at Weizmann Institute

Applications are now open for the Paulo Pinheiro de Andrade Fellowship, a postdoctoral scholarship offered by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel and dedicated to Brazilian researchers. Candidates may apply until October 20, 2026. Established by Marcos Pinheiro de...

Oct 1, 2026, 2:37 AM

Israel’s Next Tech Edge Is What Its Companies Know, Not What They Build

Look at the technology companies Israel has produced over the past two decades, and a pattern emerges. From cybersecurity and fintech to enterprise software and artificial intelligence, our founders have repeatedly taken complex technical problems and turned them into...

Sep 30, 2026, 1:13 PM

A country is not a startup. But like one, it needs a bold vision

I have spent much of my professional life in high-tech. When you pitch an idea, there is one rule: don’t build your pitch around how bad your competitors are. Explain what you will build. A good pitch starts with a...

Sep 28, 2026, 9:06 PM

The AI Race Meets Reality

“The AI war has already begun, which is both the problem and part of the solution.” That is how I opened an article about a year ago. I meant that competition would produce unexpected results and make it harder...

Sep 28, 2026, 1:13 PM

What if Israel is competing in the wrong AI race?

For the last few years, much of the AI race has been measured by models. Who has the smartest one? Who has the most compute? Who can spend the billions required to train the next generation? Much of that competition...

Sep 25, 2026, 11:49 PM

Other Waze Around

Waze was born in Israel, which makes sense to anyone who has driven there, including me. Around 2006, software engineer Ehud Shabtai started a community project called FreeMap Israel. The idea was that the country's drivers, stuck in some...

Sep 22, 2026, 3:14 AM

Indiana Came to Israel Ready to Work

Photo by Todd Scoggins.

Indiana came to Israel in June with a question. Not, What can Israel show us? Something more useful: What can Indiana and Israel actually build together? That distinction shaped the trip. A few weeks earlier, leaders from Indiana government, technology, cybersecurity, higher...

Sep 18, 2026, 5:22 AM

ChatGPT Won’t Hack Your Phone. An AI Agent Might.

Most people have encountered artificial intelligence through a conversation. You open ChatGPT on your phone, type a question, and receive an answer. Sometimes the answer is excellent. Sometimes it is wrong. Occasionally, the model may confidently invent something that...

Sep 17, 2026, 3:38 PM

What Europe can learn from Israel’s Startup Nation

Eran Westman said something to me during a much longer conversation we shared last week that stuck with me. "I think Europe has most of the ingredients of a world-class tech ecosystem. What has been missing is the ability...

Sep 16, 2026, 5:17 AM

Dario Amodei Understands Why the Internet Could Be AI’s Holy Grail

Dario Amodei has just made one of the most extraordinary predictions I have heard from the leader of a frontier AI company. In his essay We Must Pace the Frontier, the CEO of Anthropic warns that within just 6...

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