Google's purchase of the the firm Wiz tightens the embrace between Silicon Valley and the Israeli military.
In mid-March, Google announced that it was paying the staggering sum of $32 billion for the acquisition of the Israeli cloud-computing security company Wiz. The acquisition, pending regulatory approval, will be the largest ever of an Israeli firm.
“Organizations of all sizes—from start-ups and large enterprises to governments and public sector organizations—can use Wiz to protect everything they build and run in the cloud,” Google said in a statement announcing the acquisition. The statement added that Wiz would join Google Cloud, but that the Tel Aviv-based company’s security services would still be available across other cloud platforms used by major firms, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud.
What was left unsaid in Google’s announcement, however, were the personal backgrounds of its four founders. The co-founders of Wiz—Yinon Costica, Assaf Rappaport, Ami Luttwak, and Roy Reznik—are all veterans of Unit 8200, the signals intelligence division of the Israeli military, which is playing a key role in helping to carry out Israel’s wars in Gaza and Lebanon.
For my job I get to recommend an LLM supplier and I want to pick the least pro-Israel one. Though Deepseek probably is not going to get a pass because China.
It is looking like they all at least have partial ties but does anyone know which would be the least bad option?
You could go with having a supplier host DeepSeek for you. You may be able to find a least bad option, but the unfortunate reality is, and an issue I have with BDS in general, is that there are nearly zero high tech companies without ties to the Israeli economy–even moreso when it comes to medicine/health.
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For my job I get to recommend an LLM supplier and I want to pick the least pro-Israel one. Though Deepseek probably is not going to get a pass because China.
It is looking like they all at least have partial ties but does anyone know which would be the least bad option?
You could go with having a supplier host DeepSeek for you. You may be able to find a least bad option, but the unfortunate reality is, and an issue I have with BDS in general, is that there are nearly zero high tech companies without ties to the Israeli economy–even moreso when it comes to medicine/health.
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