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The Technion opened its 101st academic year on Nov 10 with approximately 3,100 new students: 2,100 in undergraduate programs and 1,000 in graduate programs. In total, some 15,000 students are enrolled at the Technion, of which about 1,000 are currently serving as reservists in the IDF.

The AI features of Meeting Insights from Israel’s AutoCodes (see previously) were previously only available to Microsoft Teams users. Now the solution will support Zoom meetings. If selected, Meeting Insights will automatically take notes, produce summaries and much more.

As Israel’s largest desalination plant Soreq II nears completion, this article highlights that 100% of Israel’s drinking water is desalinated. 55% of all Israeli water is desalinated. Israel even uses desalinated water to top up the Kinneret and exports water to Jordan and Egypt.

At Israel's 2024 Infrastructure, Energy, and Transportation Conference, Israel’s Gadfin (see previously) exhibited its hydrogen-powered long-range UAVs / drones which transports medical supplies up to 150kg to hospitals. In Croatia, Gadfin’s delivery network connects the country’s 50 islands.

Israel’s Sentrycs & Israel’s Third Eye are jointly developing a next-generation drone identification solution. It combines Sentrycs’ cutting-edge passive drone detection technology with Third Eye’s advanced Electro-Optic imaging systems. It can also detect if a drone has a payload..

After Oct 7, Israel’s National Drone Initiative had to change direction and start registering active drones on a live network. The 11 drone companies involved have run more than 24,000 test flights in experiments of increasing difficulty to learn how a drone delivery network could be feasible.

US rideshare firm Lyft is teaming up with Jerusalem-based self-driving tech Mobileye, and Israeli smart dashcam startup Nexar (see previously) to pilot Toyota Sienna robotaxis in Atlanta in 2025. Nexar’s video telematics aims to detect dangers on the road in real time.

Scientists at Israel’s Technion Institute have developed a software package that enables computers to perform processing operations directly in memory, bypassing the CPU.

Intel has just launched its Israeli-developed Arrow Lake –codename for Intel’s 15th generation Core Ultra Series 2 microprocessors.  They are successors to Lunar Lake (see previously), Meteor Lake, and Raptor Lake (13th & 14th generations). Desktop AI computers are now planned.  (Deep tech review of Arrow Lake)

NASA is to integrate cameras from Israel’s Odysight.ai (see previously) into its hypersonic aerospace vehicles. Odysight’s systems will monitor any damage to the aerospace vehicles parts during flight trials. E.g. the Mach 5 X-43A hypersonic research aircraft.