Earlier this month, the payments company Stripe took a fifty-million-line codebase, the kind of sprawling, decades-deep software that a team of engineers would normally spend two months rewriting by hand, and migrated the entire thing in a single day. The tool that did it was an AI model called Claude Fable 5. It had been available to the public for three days.

Three days is also how long it lasted. On Friday, June 12, the United States government ordered the model switched off for every person on the planet who is not American. To understand why a piece of software gets recalled like a contaminated product, and why that should interest Israel in particular, it helps to start with how capable these systems have quietly become.

Because the headline here is not a grievance. It is a snapshot of where artificial intelligence now sits: powerful enough that governments have started treating it as a strategic asset, and distributed unevenly in a way that matters most to the countries that lean on it the hardest. No country leans harder, per person, than Israel.

Consider what these models can now do. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, disclosed this month that more than 80% of the code it merges into its own systems is now written by Claude, up from low single digits two years ago. On the company’s hardest internal engineering problems, the model’s success rate climbed from 26% to 76% in six months. Last year, general-purpose AI models reached gold-medal standard at the International Mathematical Olympiad and........

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