{"id":618258,"date":"2026-04-21T06:37:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618258\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T06:37:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T06:37:11","slug":"big-tech-is-powering-israels-ai-war-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/618258\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Tech Is Powering Israel&#8217;s AI War Machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/$s_!_NK7!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74370f9c-ec27-472e-a7e0-7e799f6e0cb0_3192x2128.jpeg\" data-component-name=\"Image2ToDOM\" class=\"image-link image2 is-viewable-img\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/74370f9c-ec27-472e-a7e0-7e799f6e0cb0_3192.jpeg\" width=\"1456\" height=\"971\" data-attrs=\"{&quot;src&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/substack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com\/public\/images\/74370f9c-ec27-472e-a7e0-7e799f6e0cb0_3192x2128.jpeg&quot;,&quot;srcNoWatermark&quot;:null,&quot;fullscreen&quot;:null,&quot;imageSize&quot;:null,&quot;height&quot;:971,&quot;width&quot;:1456,&quot;resizeWidth&quot;:null,&quot;bytes&quot;:6637405,&quot;alt&quot;:null,&quot;title&quot;:null,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;image\/jpeg&quot;,&quot;href&quot;:null,&quot;belowTheFold&quot;:false,&quot;topImage&quot;:true,&quot;internalRedirect&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/zeteo.com\/i\/194841978?img=https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74370f9c-ec27-472e-a7e0-7e799f6e0cb0_3192x2128.jpeg&quot;,&quot;isProcessing&quot;:false,&quot;align&quot;:null,&quot;offset&quot;:false}\" alt=\"\"   fetchpriority=\"high\" class=\"sizing-normal\"\/><\/a>Workers clear the rubble from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in the southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre as a ceasefire took effect on April 17, 2026. Photo by Kawnat Haju\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Israel\u2019s genocide in Gaza exposed how AI is changing warfare in terrifying and deadly ways. With the help of Big Tech, Israel, along with the US, is now expanding its use of AI in Iran and Lebanon, widening its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology \u2013 with more deadly consequences.<\/p>\n<p>Israel has long been one of the world\u2019s leading hubs for AI development. As of 2024, there were about 2,300 AI startups active in Israel, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/rise-il.org\/insight\/israels-position-in-the-artificial-intelligence-race\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a report by Google Israel and RISE Israel<\/a>, a technology think tank. Since then, that number has likely only risen as venture capitalists pour money into the industry. Roughly one quarter of all technology startups in Israel are AI companies, supported by billions of dollars in funding.<\/p>\n<p>Tech giants have also deepened their relationships with Israel, tapping into their tech ecosystem to recruit talent and grow their businesses. Nvidia recently announced plans to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.israelhayom.com\/2025\/07\/06\/nvidia-plans-massive-tech-campus-in-israel-boosting-ai-innovation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">build a massive tech campus<\/a> in northern Israel that will be home to AI research and development projects, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has described Israel as the company\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.boycat.io\/posts\/everything-you-need-to-know-nvidia-israel-ai-investment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second home<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All of this has happened as Israel assaults civilian populations in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran. <\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iiss.org\/online-analysis\/charting-middle-east\/2026\/04\/the-proliferation-of-ai-enabled-military-technology-in-the-middle-east\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new report<\/a> from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS), a think tank and leading authority on global security and military conflict, details exactly how heavily integrated AI is in Israel\u2019s weapons systems and military operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Israel has made significant investments to embed AI across its military tools and systems. These efforts range from the creation of an AI and Autonomy Administration within the Ministry of Defense\u2019s Directorate of Defense Research &amp; Development, to empowering the elite intelligence Unit 8200 to build out the Israeli military\u2019s own AI capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Workers clear the rubble from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighborhood in the southern&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":618259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[62,276,277,49,48,61],"class_list":["post-618258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/618259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}