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For all but a few nights of my first child’s life, her sleep has been recorded and analyzed by the Nanit Smart Baby Monitor System. A sleek white camera, bolted to the wall, points straight down at her body. High-definition footage is beamed to a server, where machine-learning algorithms log her movements and the precise […]
This op-ed is authored by Jenny Goldstein, chief development officer of the American Technion Society. In my last blog post, I wrote that philanthropy is most powerful when it is connected to meaning. As fundraisers and storytellers, our responsibility is not simply to celebrate Israel’s achievements. It is to help people understand why those achievements matter, how they improve lives, and why they deserve our collective support. That challenge feels especially urgent as we navigate one of the most transformative moments of our time: the rise of artificial intelligence. Not long ago, AI belonged mostly to the realm of science fiction….
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman claimed on Friday that the company is currently working with artificial intelligence models at “the singularity point,” which represents the moment when AI becomes better at generating results than humans can.And Altman’s claims might not be unfounded, as Technion-Israel Institute of Technology Professor Yaniv Romano told The Jerusalem Post that he believes the singularity might have been reached, citing recent studies showing that AI models can solve mathematical problems humans can’t.”We are now in the singularity; this is the moment,” Altman claimed during an interview with the Relentless podcast, adding that the idea of reaching this…
For decades, elementary students learned the same tale of the Solar System: first come rocky terrestrial planets such as Earth, followed by gas giants such as Jupiter and ice giants such as Neptune, with lovable Pluto bringing up the rear. Then 20 years ago, planetary scientists downgraded Pluto to a “dwarf planet.” And now, they say, it’s time to revisit our idea of Neptune and Uranus, too—for the so-called ice giants likely contain very little ice. The term is “a little bit misleading,” says Ravit Helled, a planetary scientist at the University of Zürich. “We really don’t know what these…
In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and Tel Aviv University present BetaDescribe, an AI system that translates protein sequences into natural-language descriptions, opening a new path toward understanding protein functions and accelerating drug development and material design. Protein analysis is essential in medicine and biotechnology, as demonstrated by breakthroughs such as Ozempic, a drug whose development was inspired by a peptide found in the saliva of a rare desert lizard and is used to treat obesity, diabetes and other conditions. However, experimental protein characterization remains…
As the FIFA World Cup kicks off this June, Israeli football fans will once again find themselves watching from the sidelines, cheering for foreign giants as the national team misses out on the big stage. Yet, while Israeli boots won’t be hitting the grass, Israeli innovation will be everywhere. Behind the scenes of the world’s most prestigious sporting event, a powerhouse of Israeli technology companies is working to shape the tournament’s global infrastructure, driving everything from real-time broadcasting and sports data to international ticket distribution. SeatPick, a global ticket resale price comparison platform, sees the FIFA World Cup as the…
For decades, the Energy Tower by Dan Zaslavsky was one of the most audacious clean-energy ideas never built. And it was the first story we covered when Green Prophet was founded in 2007! Conceived by Dr. Phillip Carlson and championed by Professor Dan Zaslavsky of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, the Energy Tower proposed something almost magical: spray seawater into the top of a giant desert tower, cool the hot air, let it plunge downward at high speed, and generate electricity through turbines at the base. The hotter and drier the desert, the better it would work. Zaslavsky…
Mexico City’s Topos Azteca search and rescue brigade has been using Israeli technology to access areas still too dangerous for humans to enter in search of victims buried under the rubble in Venezuela’s La Guaira earthquake sites. The death toll in Latin America’s largest natural disaster in decades has risen to over 2,600, and while hopes of finding more survivors diminish, search and rescue teams are not stopping. Dozens of countries have sent personnel to the disaster areas, including Syria’s White Helmets (the Syria Civil Defense humanitarian aid volunteer organization). Despite not having diplomatic relations with Caracas for 17 years,…
A first-of-its-kind treatment in Israel was recently performed at Rambam Health Care Campus, where specialists helped a man in his 40s detox from an extreme dependence on opioid painkillers, which had reached about 130 pills a day, in a procedure that lasted just 20 minutes. The treatment was carried out using unique Israeli technology developed by Insightec, as part of an international study underway at a small number of medical centers in the United States, and now also in Israel. “This is a new therapeutic platform that allows us to offer a range of noninvasive treatments for many problems affecting…
“The global construction industry is facing a multi-dimensional crisis: rising demand for infrastructure and housing, severe skilled labor shortages, increasing material costs, and heavy environmental pressure,” says Eran Carmi, Founder and CEO of Shahaf PY. Born out of the development department of veteran firm Shahaf Stone & Marble, the Israeli startup is building a new generation of 3D concrete printing systems designed to propel the industry toward smarter, highly scalable manufacturing. “My career began working with my father in a basalt quarry in Tiberias. Both he and his father were stonemasons and taught me the value of craftsmanship,” Carmi explains….
Some of Israel’s most impactful technology stories begin not in boardrooms, but in the shared intensity of military service and the collaborative halls of the Technion. Armis is one such story. Founded in 2015, Armis has grown into one of the world’s leading cybersecurity companies. In December 2025, it was acquired by the American software […]
Researchers have developed a set of tools that look inside large language models to detect when they go wrong, including hallucinations, memorization of training data and other forms of unreliable output. Rather than relying only on a model’s final answer, the approach analyzes internal signals produced during computation, including activation patterns, attention maps and output probability distributions. The goal is to identify signs of failure as the model generates text. These challenges are a major focus of the research group led by Dr. Haggai Maron from the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Technion…