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History was achieved on Israel’s Independence Day by the six members of Israel’s student delegation, all of whom won medals at the International Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad held in Moscow. The students were trained at the Schulich Faculty of Chemistry at the Technion.  

Israel’s Firewave is an AI-powered acoustic sensor that detects wildfires in under two minutes by listening for the sound of combustion, far outpacing traditional camera-based systems. Firewave says that it “listens to nature, to protect it”.  

At AI+ Expo in Washington DC, US ex-envoy Tom Nides and ex-IDF intel chief Amos Yadlin advanced the Technology Alliance - Strategic Technology Compact, in which the USA and Israel would invest $2 billion a year into joint tech projects.

A 4-kg CloudCT satellite, built through an international project involving the Weizmann Institute, Technion and Germany’s Center for Telematics, will test AI-based cloud tomography technology ahead of a planned 10-satellite constellation. It will advance research into clouds and their role in the climate.

Rescue teams need vital technical information about collapsed buildings in order to extract civilians trapped inside. Researchers from the Technion and the University of Haifa have developed an AI-based tool that rapidly retrieves the construction permit data from municipal databases.

Tel Aviv University scientists have discovered how a flowing liquid suddenly become a rigid, almost frozen material, without changing its structure. This phenomenon is known as the “glass transition,”. The precise changes in motion were studied in liquids with tiny solid particles floating inside them.

Israel’s XTEND (see previously) and ParaZero (see previously) are partnering to create a fully autonomous next generation autonomous counter‑UAS (C‑UAS) solution to detect, pursue, and capture hostile drones with minimal collateral damage.

Asio Technologies (see previously) is another Israeli startup  countering GPS and GNSS jamming (see previously). Its AeroCore and NavGuard systems use real-time optical matching whereby the drones navigate by comparing live camera feeds against pre-loaded satellite imagery.

Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof Jeffrey Rosenschein has received the prestigious IFAAMAS Influential Paper Award. He was selected for his seminal book, “Rules of Encounter: Designing Conventions for Automated Negotiation Among Computers (MIT Press, 1994).

A new national competition offers up to NIS 1 million to startups developing breakthrough solutions to secure critical minerals and strengthen Israel’s position in the global supply chain. It focuses on advanced mining tech, recycling materials, and mineral substitutes.