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Startup Nation Central has released a map showing 165 of the 350+ Israeli startups addressing some of the world’s most significant energy challenges. These include reducing carbon emissions, storing clean energy, and enhancing electricity efficiency. The 165 startups raised over $400 million in 2024.

The USA and Israel signed a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MOU), formalizing a powerful new alliance in the fields of artificial intelligence and energy infrastructure. It aims to fortify national energy grids and drive energy innovation across both countries.

Israel’s CarbonBlue (see previously) has developed technology to remove masses amounts of carbon dioxide from water. Its removal allows the oceans to re-absorb more CO2 from the atmosphere.  CarbonBlue’s Project Midway integrates the technology at a desalination plant.

The "Top 100 Drone Defense Companies in 2025," by Defense Post" website includes eight from Israel (second in the world after the US). Elbit Systems ranked in fifth place, further reinforcing Israel's role as a leading player in the international arena on drone technology.

Israel’s Carbyne (see previously) has joined with AT&T to launch APEX Continuity, a solution to keep 9-1-1 emergency call handling operational during network disruptions, cyberattack, or evacuation. APEX reroutes calls to continuity backup support facilities.

Israel’s Beamr Imaging (see previously) has developed high-performance, high-quality video compression. It is specifically designed for autonomous cars which produce terabytes of video data daily. Beamr’s Content-Adaptive Bitrate (CABR) technology reduces sizes up to 50%.

Israel’s Weavy (see previously) has launched a new AI-powered platform for image and video editing. NVIDIA, Wix, Taboola, eToro, etc., use Weavy’s browser-based workspace to integrate traditional editing tools with AI models, such as OpenAI, Runway, and Kling.

Israel’s ai.work provides companies with autonomous AI workers designed for internal operations - IT, HR, Procurement, Legal and beyond. These digital teammates automate all regular tasks across an enterprise, enforcing policies etc., but escalate to humans where necessary.

The AI-driven financial planning platform from Israel’s Quinn gives financial companies the ability to service more clients. Its military grade machine learning embeds directly into systems of banks, brokerages, and fintech platforms, generating detailed, self-checked, financial plans in seconds.

Hirundo is building a “machine unlearning” system, designed to surgically remove unwanted data and behaviors from already-trained AI models. These include hallucinations, plausible-sounding but wrong outputs, plus embedded biases and adversarial vulnerabilities.