What's Your Number?

What Role Does Israel Play in the AI Arms Race?

Jun 26, 2025 · 27 min · Episode 8 · 26.3 MB
0:00-27:22

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📈Our WYNDEX update for today:

NASDAQ, S&P and WYNDEX were all in the green, with our WYNDEX trailing roughly 0.55% behind both with 1.67, 1.6 and 1.07% for the WYNDEX.

🎯Our Big Shorts for today:

  • Seven-year-old digital payment company Melio has been acquired by SMB giant XERO, a deal that was negotiated from the safe room during the Israel-Iran conflict. 
  • Spain is asking for “immediate” suspension of the EU “Association Agreement” with Israel + to impose an arms embargo on Israel, but this is unlikely to happen because of lack of support from other key EU countries like Italy and Germany. 

🔎And our Long Play today is an interview with AI expert and longtime entrepreneur Yoav Shoham, all about what Israel’s role is–and could be–in the global AI arms race. 

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What’s Your Number? is hosted from Tel Aviv and Silicon Valley by Yonatan Adiri — Israeli entrepreneur and former advisor to President Shimon Peres — and Michal Lev-Ram, Israeli-born Silicon Valley-based tech journalist and contributing editor at Fortune. Together, they unpack the headlines, trends, and data driving Israel’s  economy and its future. 

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