War as a Startup: Live-Fire Conflicts Are Now the Ultimate Tech Beta Test

From Kyiv datarooms to $50B VC bets — why “battle-proven” is now the ultimate valuation multiplier. In July 2025, a German drone startup didn’t send engineers to a desert proving ground. They uploaded code to a secure dataroom in Kyiv, watched their AI-guided platform fly a live mission, and pushed a software patch before the … Read more

Israel’s AI Revolution – Part 4 – The Architecture of Impunity

Israel’s AI Revolution — Part 4 NSO’s Reinvention In January 2026, NSO Group released a new transparency report. The company said it was entering “a new phase of accountability.” The document gave away almost nothing: fewer disclosures than in prior years, no customer numbers, no country names, no meaningful account of investigations into misuse. It … Read more

Israel’s AI Revolution – Part 2 – Rules of War in the Age of Algorithms

How International Law Fails to Govern AI Part 2 of Israel’s AI Revolution Introduction: When Machines Decide Who Dies In the fall of 2023, the Israel Defense Forces began running a targeting operation in Gaza unlike anything in the history of modern warfare. At the center of it were two artificial intelligence systems. The first, … Read more