Monthly Archives: July 2024

AI to protect the vulnerable

Israel’s EyeKnow.AI has developed a safety platform with cameras and artificial intelligence to predict hazardous and violent incidents such as falls, slips and physical violence, in hospitals and care facilities. It can raise an alert before a situation spirals into … Continue reading

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Using AI to monitor legal compliance

Israel’s Shield has developed a generative AI (GenAI) platform to help financial services companies maintain legal compliance and avoid issues such as misconduct and market manipulation by their employees. Shield analyzes communications from emails, messages and voice calls. https://nocamels.com/2024/06/ai-monitoring-lets-financial-firms-stay-ethical-and-law-abiding/

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Detecting fakes from true content

Israel’s TrueMedia.org helps people discern real from fake content. TrueMedia has developed about 15 models to identify AI-created audio, video, and images, achieving around 90% accuracy. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/8rum93gp9   https://www.truemedia.org/

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AI to check AI fraud

Israel’s Corsound (a subsidiary of Israel’s Cortica – see here previously) has developed AI technology to detect a cloned voice – if a recording of your voice was digitally manipulated to impersonate you. It can also check that a voice … Continue reading

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A video-based lie-detector

Israel’s Revealense Technology has unveiled illuminator – an AI platform to identify the behavioral DNA of individuals using video analysis. It could transform decision-making processes for managers, investigators, psychologists, researchers, and more. Useful for recruitment, banking, doctors, etc. https://revealense.com/

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Replacing the court stenographer

Israel’s Verbit (see here previously) provides automated captioning and transcription services to over 2,000 businesses worldwide. It is now launching Legal Real-Time, providing reliable real-time transcriptions for legal proceedings at a fraction of the cost of traditional stenography. https://www.israel21c.org/new-ai-app-aims-to-replace-traditional-court-reporters/

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A combat unit for religious women

The IDF is creating a new all-female combat unit for religious women soldiers. The unit will be part of the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps and the women enrolled will receive spiritual support and guidance. Rabbi Ohad Teharlev, head of Midreshet … Continue reading

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Germany’s new citizenship law

The country’s new citizenship law goes into effect, requiring those applying for a passport to affirm they believe that Israel has a right to exist. It is part of an overhaul to emphasize German values and protect Jewish life in … Continue reading

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Israeli universities receive redirected $5 million donation

US donor David Magerman is giving $1 million to five Israeli institutions, including Israel’s Technion Institute, Bar-Ilan University, and the Jerusalem College of Technology. He halted his donations to the University of Pennsylvania due to its handling of antisemitism. https://www.jns.org/american-donor-giving-5m-to-israeli-colleges-after-spurning-penn/

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Argentinian ambassador is a Rabbi

Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz welcomed Argentina’s incoming ambassador, Rabbi Shimon “Axel” Wahnish, to Jerusalem. He noted that under the leadership of Argentina’s President Javier Milei, the relationship between the two nations will reach new heights. https://www.jns.org/katz-welcomes-incoming-argentinian-ambassador-to-jerusalem/

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