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Endless Thread AI and Relationships, Part 1: Into the Woods Amir Mizroch spent years deconstructing fairy tales for his children — and thinking that maybe, he could create something out of his analysis and storytelling for a wider audience. In the first episode of our two-part series on AI and relationships, we hear what Amir finally created, and explore the questions it raises about connection in the digital age.
Credits: This episode was produced by Grace Tatter, and edited by Meg Cramer. It was co-hosted by Amory Sivertson and Ben Brock Johnson. Mix and sound design by Emily Jankowski.
2025-08-1528 min
The DejargonizerAI has a glitch: it can't stop won't stop hallucinatingSend us a textThe AI revolution has a glitch. Despite reaching nearly a billion users, today's large language models suffer from a fundamental flaw: they hallucinate. With alarming confidence, chatbots make up information that is entirely fictitious—recommending non-existent products, inventing medical treatments, and even selling luxury cars for $1. This is not a bug, insist the experts, but an inherent property of systems designed to predict plausible text rather than retrieve verified facts.The cost of these fabrications is mounting. Air Canada was successfully sued after its chatbot promised free bereavement fares that violated co...
2025-05-2743 min
The AdditionThe Truth About Israel Tech and Media – with Amir MizrochAmir Mizroch has worked at The Jerusalem Post, The Wall Street Journal, among other high-profile gigs. He joins the show to discuss all things Israeli tech and media, as well as the reasoning behind his new publication Israel Tech Insider.
During the conversation, we dive into how the war against Hamas has affected coverage inside and outside of Israel as well its impact on the country's tech sector. There are now swathes of the industry that had to stop as people were sent to fight. We also wonder why nobody else is doing the in-depth journalism of this thriving space.
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2025-04-3036 min
The DejargonizerInside Addionic's Quest To Remake Battery TechnologySend us a textAdvancing Battery Technology: An Interview with Addionics CEO Moshiel BitonIn this episode, Moshiel Biton, CEO and co-founder of Addionics, shares his journey from material science to pioneering battery technology, addressing the critical need for more efficient and longer-lasting batteries in today's energy-dependent world. He explains Addionics' innovative approach to improving lithium-ion batteries by replacing the traditional 2D metal foil current collectors with 3D porous structures, resulting in enhanced efficiency, longer life, and faster charging. Biton discusses the impact on the automotive industry, the role of strategic versus financial investors, and...
2025-04-2843 min
The DejargonizerHow Unlikely Food Innovators Are Making Cheese and Meat Veggie-FriendlySend us a textRevolutionizing Plant-Based Foods with Alfred's Food TechIn this episode, I speak with the team behind Alfred's Food Tech, a company innovating in the plant-based food industry. Alfred's is adapting film coating technology from the pharmaceutical industry to create high-quality, plant-based proteins that overcome traditional barriers such as taste, texture, and nutritional content. CEO Gofna Liss-Rubin discusses the company's technology platform and market strategy, while CTO Marina Kirjner Matana explains the technological processes and challenges. The team highlights the importance of consumer acceptance and details...
2025-04-1840 min
The DejargonizerTrump's 2025 is the New 1870: Dan Shapiro on the Return of the 19th Century World OrderSend us a text2025 is the New 1870: Dan Shapiro on how Trump Is Taking Us Back to the 19th Century In this episode of The Dejargonizer, host Amir Mizroch sits down with former US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro to unpack a provocative thesis: that Trump's foreign policy instincts are reverting global politics to a 19th-century model of competing imperial powers. Shapiro explains how Trump's real estate developer mindset of "ownership," his deal-making impulses, and conflict aversion could lead to a world divided into three spheres dominated by the US, Russia, and China. From Ukraine t...
2025-03-0642 min
The DejargonizerAn Honest Conversation About Misinformation, Disinformation, and Narrative WarSend us a textWhy does the World Economic Forum think misinformation is scarier than nukes and climate change? Why are we more polarized than ever before? How do foreign powers mess with our minds? On this episode we are joined by Daniel Ravner, co-founder and CEO of Brinker, a misinformation threat management platform. Daniel pulls back the curtain on the wild world of digital influence operations, from Iranian sleeper accounts lurking in your WhatsApp groups to AI-powered narrative warfare. This episode reveals how modern propaganda spreads and seeps into polarized societies. A mind-bending journey under the...
2025-01-3138 minThe DejargonizerInvisible and Deadly: How Drones are Rewriting the Rules of WarSend us a textWe’re diving into a game-changing shift in modern warfare. From mysterious drones over the UK and US to swarms reshaping battlefields in Ukraine, Gaza, and beyond, drones are rewriting the rules of conflict. These cheap flying machines can destroy multi-million-dollar tanks with pinpoint precision, and their stealth makes them almost impossible to track.Joining us is Dr. Yiftach Richter, founder of R2 Wireless, an Israeli startup that’s cracking the code on detecting wireless-emitting devices—like drones—before they wreak havoc. We’ll explore how drones work, how they’re controlled...
2025-01-1221 minThe DejargonizerBashar's Breaking Bad: Inside Syria's State-Sponsored Narco Terrorism IndustrySend us a textIn this episode of The Dejargonizer Podcast, leading Syria and Lebanon expert Carmit Valensi, head of the Northern Arena Program at Israel's Tel Aviv University Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) and former IDF intelligence analyst, takes us on a wild road trip through the sinister world of Captagon, the dangerous drug fueling terrorism in the Middle East. Valensi is the perfect guide to explore Captagon's role in funding terrorist activities, the Assad regime's involvement, and the potential global spillover of this dangerous substance.Support the show
2024-04-0919 minThe DejargonizerStartup Mourns Its Fallen Founder, and Moves OnSend us a text"He'd Be So Pissed If We Shut Down"- How a Mission-Driven Startup Deals With Its Founder's Sudden DeathThis episode of The Dejargonizer Podcast is dedicated to the memory of Adam Bismuth, the founder and CEO of SightBit, an AI-powered anti-drowning startup that's hoping to "bring Baywatch into the 21st Century". Adam, who served as an advanced master sergeant in the reserves, died in battle inside the Gaza Strip on 22 January, 2024. He was 35 years old. Founded in 2018 after Adam witnessed a drowning in 2019, SightBit us...
2024-03-2227 minThe DejargonizerWho Let The Bots Out? Who? Who??Send us a textDoesn't it seem that some people, many people in fact, will believe anything these days? How do seemingly normal and intelligent people fall for ridiculous conspiracy theories without question? What's happening to our ability to discern between the plausible and the preposterous?Guy Tytunovich, co-founder and CEO of bot-mitigation company Cheq, takes us into a shadowy and automated underworld where authoritarian regimes deploy armies of robotic avatars (bots) on social media platforms, especially around elections. Their aim: tear Western societies from within, peddle and amplify conspiracy theories b...
2024-02-0220 minThe DejargonizerIsraeli Intelligence Hired a Clinical Psychologist. They Didn't Listen To HimSend us a textIn this episode we focus on the story of Dr. Ofer Grosbard, a clinical psychologist who was hired by Israel's military intelligence to enhance its understanding in enemy profiling. Tasked with incorporating psychological insights, Dr. Grosbard aimed to reshape the unit's analytical approach. Despite initial optimism, he faced resistance and a lack of actionable response to his recommendations. After six months of trying to implement change and encourage open discussions, Dr. Grosbard left the unit, citing a failure to break through the entrenched analytical and cultural biases. His journey highlights the challenges of...
2024-01-0528 minThe DejargonizerTikTok is Fueling a Zombie Generation of Israel HatersSend us a text32% of those aged 18-29 get their news from TikTok, per Pew Research.Spending at least 30 minutes a day on TikTok increases the chances a user will hold antisemitic or anti-Israel views by 17% (compared with 6% for Instagram and 2% for X).For every TikTok video view with a pro-Israel hashtag in the US, there are 54 views with pro-Palestinian hashtags.5 of the top 6 hashtags on TikTok relating to the conflict are all pro-Palestinian. Israel is getting slaughtered in the TikTok War. This episode dives into how and why. Our guide into TikTok's o...
2023-12-0926 minThe DejargonizerWar By Other Memes: How Terrorists and Rogue Regimes Weaponize TelegramSend us a textWhat if a popular messaging app is reshaping warfare? We're about to take you on a journey into the nexus of technology, warfare, and propaganda, with our insightful guest, Ari Ben-Am, Co-founder of Telemetry Data Labs, a startup that's building a search engine for Telegram.Ari is an expert in "memetic warfare," the strategic use of memes, viral images, and culturally resonant symbols to influence public opinion or disrupt an adversary's narrative in the modern digital battlefield. We'll unpack the role of Telegram, a tool for 800 million users worldwide...
2023-11-1638 minThe DejargonizerAI Safety: How to Build Artificial Intelligence Without Destroying HumanitySend us a textAI expert Rebecca Gorman from AlignedAI simplifies AI concepts like alignment and existential risk. She explains how her company Aligned AI helps AIs learn faster, identify unknowns, and act cautiously - just like a parent teaches a toddler. Support the showListenApple Podcasts, Spotify, or anywhere you get podcasts.ConnectLinkedInTwitterNewsletter Email: amir@orangegrovecomms.com
2023-09-2021 minThe DejargonizerReusable Sewage Startup Steps In Where Govt's FailSend us a textWe need to talk about what happens after we flush our toilets. For many of us listening to this podcast, our wastewater just magically disappears. But for around 80% of the world's population that isn't the case. Around the world, sanitation and sewage treatment is patchy, if it exists at all. This causes disease as wastewater is dumped into rivers and waterways. Clive Lipchin, founder of Laguna Innovation, explains how his decentralized, solar-powered wastewater treatment system could save lives by turning sewage into clean, reusable water for...
2023-09-1319 minThe DejargonizerA Startup is "Unmuting" the World's Food Crops. Here's What They're Saying About Climate ChangeSend us a textFor thousands of years, farming has thrived on the predictability of seasons. But as the Earth warms, that predictability is vanishing, leading to extreme weather events that stress crops and jeopardize livelihoods. What if there was a way to communicate directly with plants, to understand their needs in real-time?Enter Supplant, a startup that's putting the equivalent of an Apple Watch on plants. Using AI and sensors, Supplant has created a "Plant Stress Index," offering a real-time pulse check on global crops. With sensors deployed from Mexico to the UAE, this...
2023-09-0319 minThe DejargonizerAuto Insurance Is Stuck In The Past. Here's How AI Can Fix ItSend us a textHow can data and AI make auto insurance fairer and roads safer? We talk with Yonatan Matus of insurtech startup Fairmatic about using mobile sensors to measure driving risk and incentivize fleets to drive more carefully.Yonatan explains how traditional auto insurance companies use proxies like demographics and credit scores to determine premiums. This can lead to unfair overcharging of safe drivers. It also fails to incentivize risky drivers to improve. Fairmatic aims to change this by using mobile sensors and AI to directly measure driving behavior. Their tech a...
2023-08-3125 minThe DejargonizerWhy Are Public Works Projects Always Over Budget and Never On Time?Send us a textA public works construction project on your street for 10 years is not fun.Highways, tunnels, metros, light rail systems, electric car infrastructure, power lines, new electric stations --these projects are great once they're done --if they're ever done-- and if they haven't cost taxpayers an absolute King's Ransom. Unfortunately, almost all of them do. Every single one. They're never on time and never on budget, never.One of the biggest culprits: inadequate mapping of what's underground. Unexpected underground issues where you discover way too late that what's...
2023-08-0126 minThe DejargonizerFeeling Helpless About Climate Change? There's an App For ThatSend us a textIf you've ever felt helpless about climate change, this episode is for you.In this episode, we're joined by Edo Perry, CEO & Co-Founder ELEMENTS, a company that's aiming to turn the tide on corporate climate commitments by empowering employees to track and reduce their carbon footprint and get Climate Benefits from their companies in return.Elements (named from the Periodic Table of Elements) is about empowering each of us to make a tangible difference in our carbon footprints.Edo and I get into how Elements gamifies the...
2023-07-1831 minThe DejargonizerA World With Less Sugar Would Taste Just As Sweet!Send us a textA conversation with Ari Melamud, the CEO of Incredo Sugar, a company that's figured out a way to deliver the same sweet taste to sugary food like chocolate, with half the sugar. That's important because obesity is killing millions of people every year. 6.5 million people are dying every year globally with heart problems, blood pressure problems, all kinds of diseases mainly derived out of excessive use of sugar. The sugar industry is a $90 billion industry, one of the biggest industries in the world. Sugar is in almost everything we eat. Incredo i...
2023-07-0427 min2023-07-0228 min2023-06-1101 minThe DejargonizerDon't Throw the Blockchain Baby Out With the Crypto BathwaterSend us a textLeave your preconceptions about cryptocurrency at the door, because this conversation focuses on telling the story of the potential underpinning the blockchain technology itself.In this episode we're joined by Adi Ben Ari, founder and CEO of Applied Blockchain. As a veteran who has been part of the blockchain journey since for the past decade, Adi is our guide through the complex landscape of blockchain technology. Adi has been a part of the blockchain journey for the past ten years, making him an experienced guide to navigate the complex world of bl...
2023-05-1923 minThe DejargonizerCrypto's Lost Control. Now You Can Take It BackSend us a textIn this episode, Ouriel Ohayon, CEO of ZenGo, a crypto wallet company, takes us on an easy-to-follow journey into the complex world of cryptocurrency. Using simple analogies and real-world examples, Ouriel makes complex crypto concepts understandable. He paints a vivid picture of how crypto can help people in economically challenged countries, using the situation in Turkey as an example, where the local currency has plummeted. Ouriel explains ZenGo's security architecture called multi-party computation (MPC) in simple terms, likening it to a vault that needs multiple keys to ope...
2023-05-1917 minThe DejargonizerHow Small Businesses Can Get Big Cyber ProtectionSend us a textIn this episode, we dive into the world of cybersecurity with Cynomi, a startup that fills the gap between big companies with big security budgets, and small and medium- sized companies with small and medium-sized security budgets. Cyber security is expensive. In fact, a top Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) can earn between $200K--$400K/year, so that prices out most SMBs. But cybersecurity is also absolutely necessary, because it's not only companies that can afford $400K/year CISOs who are being hacked and exploited. Far from it. Small...
2023-05-1919 minThe DejargonizerA Former Secret Agent On How to Uncover Hidden HackersSend us a textWelcome to Cyber Intelligence, where cloak-and-dagger meets AI to unmask covert hackers lurking unseen in our servers for years. This is not your grandfather's game of cops and robbers. In this episode we talk to Noam Jolles-Ichner from Opora. Opora is like a cyber intelligence agency on demand. Jolles is no stranger to the world of clandestine operations, having served in Israel's secret intelligence agency, the Shin Bet. There, in the dark forums of the Dark Net, she would take on personas of hackers to outwit terrorists and spies....
2023-05-1918 minThe DejargonizerTiny Space Startup Has a Galaxy-Size Vision, Starting With EarthSend us a textIn this episode, I speak to Alice Miller, VP Space at Helios, a startup that is working on decarbonizing the steel industry, and also plans to make liquid Oxygen propellant on the moon. Small startup, huge ambitions. Helios could one day be the like BP or Shell of the New Space Age, building a network of liquid oxygen production and distribution to all the space ships and human colonies that need to refuel as they head into deep space. In the meantime, it's working on ma...
2023-05-1917 minThe DejargonizerTrailer: Welcome to The DejargonizerSend us a textWhen the tech economy was booming--remember those days-- a startup's ability to tell a powerful story was a nice-to-have. Nowadays, budgets are under review, profitability has replaced growth, and telling a compelling and differentiated story is a must-have for survival.Companies can’t get away with just explaining what their products are and why they’re great. They have to tell a story that makes people notice and care. But many startups don't even get close. That’s mostly because they rely on content instead of story...
2023-05-1501 min
Israel Policy PodStart-Up Nation RevoltsAmir Mizroch, tech journalist and consultant, joins Neri Zilber, policy advisor at Israel Policy Forum and Tel Aviv-based journalist, to discuss the Israeli tech sector's role in the protest movement against the Netanyahu government's judicial overhaul. Amir also provides an overview of the origins of Israel as the "start-up nation," the tech sector’s concerns if the judicial plans go through, and the impact on the industry so far after two months of upheaval. Support the showFollow us on Instagram, Twitter/X, and Bluesky, and subscribe to our email list here.
2023-03-0659 min
Böll.MitschnittKonferenz: "Fremde Freunde?" Die Zukunft der Demokratie in beiden Staaten und das Verhältnis zueinanderGesprächsrunde mit:
Nitzan Horowitz – Knesset-Abgeordneter (Meretz), Tel Aviv
Amir Mizroch – Journalist, Tel Aviv
Marieluise Beck – MdB, Bündnis 90/Die Grünen, Berlin
U.K. Preuß – Staatsrechtler, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Moderation: Ralf Fücks – Vorstand, Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
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