Looking at the Israeli startup scene, there is a huge surge in cybersecurity investments (especially agentic security) in the last couple of months, looks very abnormal.
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I think it's now more about gaining power as a nation and not being at the mercy of those who seek to destroy us.
Quite possible that people will come up with a solution eventually. Like Samizdat was a solution to censorship and a broken publishing system in USSR.
I'm more worried about AI electricity consumption than oil prices doubling. There is too much upside for this war. Once the ayatollahs are gone, Iranian oil will flow to the free markets and unfortunately, oil prices will crash (making electric vehicles not an attractive option).