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Alex Vainer

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

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Israel Wants 100,000 AI Chips. It Runs 1,000.

Israel Wants 100,000 AI Chips. It Runs 1,000.

The first phase of Israel’s national AI supercomputer went live in January: 1,000 Nvidia B200 chips that Israeli startups can rent in slices as...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alex Vainer

Israel Is Building a CT Scanner for Clouds

Sometime in the coming weeks, a satellite about the size of a shoebox and roughly four kilograms, the heft of a small housecat, is set to lift off...

30.06.2026 40

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alex Vainer

Israel’s AI Just Sped Up the MRI Cancer Scan

An MRI is one of medicine’s most powerful cameras, and one of its slowest. A single scan can run half an hour, often too slow for the machine to...

29.06.2026 50

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Alex Vainer

Why Google and Meta Spent $1B+ on Israeli Startup

Google, Meta, Unity, and Moloco spend their days trying to take advertising dollars away from each other. This week they did something that makes no...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alex Vainer

I Spent a Day Trying to Break the OU’s Torah AI

Every technology eventually finishes going mainstream and then, almost as an afterthought, arrives in Jewish life. Email did it, the smartphone did...

16.06.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alex Vainer

How Powerful Is AI Now? Ask Washington

Earlier this month, the payments company Stripe took a fifty-million-line codebase, the kind of sprawling, decades-deep software that a team of...

16.06.2026 60

The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alex Vainer

Israel’s AI Inventing Worlds Real-Time Gets $300M

There is a game you can play right now in which not one line of the game was ever written. No designer placed the trees. No programmer coded the...

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The Times of Israel (Blogs)

Alex vainer