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HP has selected the 10H AI accelerator from Israel’s Hailo (see previously) to power its all-new HP AI Accelerator M.2 Card which will be the basis for HP’s next generation point-of-sale solutions. It brings high-performance AI directly to the point of transaction and interaction.

Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a genetic editing method suitable for crop plants, enabling them to influence a wide range of traits in tomatoes. It can help develop new plant varieties with improved resistance to drought and disease, better taste, and more nutrients.

Mor Peretz, an injured IDF veteran-turned professor, has founded CaPow and developed a way to power robots “en route” eliminating the need to stop for recharging. It eliminates charging processes and downtime, plus backup robots, while ensuring constant 100% throughput.

Weizmann Institute researchers have developed a device to recognize people’s unique respiration, enabling scientists to determine physical health, depression & anxiety. How you breathe is almost as individual as your fingerprint, similar to voice recognition.

Israel’s Unibeam has launched a SIM-based identity verification method that works with both physical SIM cards and eSIMs. Unibeam uses the secure chip in SIM or eSIM cards to cryptographically verify users’ identities. It can prevent AI impersonation scams and fake frauds.

A first-of-its-kind initiative, the National Institute for Energy and Electrochemical Storage, was inaugurated at Bar-Ilan University in partnership with Israel’s Technion Institute. It aims to develop energy and climate solutions in batteries, hydrogen, carbon capture, and beyond.

Notable Capital’s “Rising in Cyber 2025” list of the 30 most promising global cyber startups includes eleven Israeli companies. The list is drawn from a pool of 275 firms nominated by top cybersecurity investors, together with the New York Stock Exchange and Morgan Stanley.

Blueberries usually grow in cold climates. But Israeli farmer Amichai planted over 1,000 blueberry trees in Hamra in the hot Jordan Valley - a region where blueberries don’t naturally grow. And with determination and innovation, they’re thriving.

Israel’s Mind.io (see previously) is marketed as the first-ever data security platform that puts data loss prevention (DLP) and insider risk management (IRM) programs on autopilot, so a company can automatically identify, detect and prevent data leaks at machine speed.

Israel’s Better Place went bankrupt in 2010 as its car battery swap concept was too novel an idea to catch on.  Now Chinese carmaker NIO is setting up a battery switching station network in Israel, expanding the 3,400 it operates in China and 250 others worldwide, mainly in Europe.