Artificial intelligence

Trump administration works to strengthen defenses against potential AI bioattacks - report

The Trump administration is reviving biosecurity efforts years after slashing related government departments amid growing fears that AI could enable biological attacks.

Employees of the Research Institute for Protective Technologies, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection (WIS) inspect a dummy sample which is contaminated with a substance similar to the chemical weapon Sarin, during a demonstration in Munster October 15, 2013.
MK Tally Gotliv attends a hearing on petitions against the government’s dismissal of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, December 1, 2025.

The Likud primary: Trolling as a way to gain support – opinion

Keren Granit, Head of Business Transformation, Claims and Service, Phoenix Financial

The next generation of financial services will be built with AI, not replaced by it

 Traffic light displaying green.

National Transport Infrastructure Company deploys AI-based adaptive traffic lights across Israel


AI and the threat to power grid stability: State freezes approvals for server farms

Israel’s Electricity Authority has frozen approvals for new server farms for 140 days, following an unprecedented surge in connection requests that threatens power grid stability.

Electricity poles

Elon Musk: "SpaceX will be worth more than the rest of Earth"

The world's richest man presents a future where robots and AI produce everything and money loses meaning. Analysts remain skeptical.

Elon Musk

The robot I never won is finally showing up - opinion

A childhood raffle promised a wristwatch that turned into a robot. Decades later, physical AI is delivering something far bigger, and far more complicated.

Robot on a phone call.

Israeli startup ASIO raises $15 million to boost worldwide deployment of its tactical platforms

The funding announcement comes shortly after it was announced that Israeli defense-tech start-ups working with the Defense Ministry raised nearly $3 billion in the first six months of 2026.

An Orion tactical awareness system, made by Israeli firm ASIO.

'Cyber attack can be like Hiroshima nuke': A key man behind Shin Bet becoming serious on cyber

From gas pipelines to rail systems, Shin Bet cyber pioneer Harel Menashri warns that digital attacks can cause mass casualties and leave Israel exposed.

A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him in this illustration picture.

Tisha B'Av reminds us that rebuilding Israel begins with education - opinion

Perhaps the rebuilding of Jerusalem begins when we become what Isaiah called repairers of the breach, and every act of education becomes another stone in that rebuilding.

  A MODEL OF the Second Temple of Jerusalem.

Meta sued: AI helped choose whom to lay off, but missed an important detail

A total of 26 employees claim that AI systems were utilized by Meta to rank staff ahead of a wave of layoffs, failing to distinguish between a lack of productivity and an approved absence.

Mark Zuckerberg

CIA operative helped UAE secure access to advanced US AI technology amid China links fears - report

Jonny Gannon, a former CIA operative working on the UAE, went from probing G42's links with China to a role helping Abu Dhabi meet Washington’s security demands, The Wall Street Journal reported.

 AT CIA headquarters in Langley.

Can Israel finally stub out smoking? Experts turn to AI, brain stimulation, and new drugs

While smoking is declining in many countries around the world, it is growing in Israel, rising in the last few years from one in five adults to one in four.

CBT can break down the connection between thought and the desire to smoke by using mindfulness.

US rewards UAE's military aid in Iran war with expanded access to AI chips - report

In recognition of the UAE's support for US national security interests, the US has granted UAE AI companies free access to buy chips from companies such as Nvidia.

An AI-generated image of an Nvidia chip.