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אלון מאסק טוויטר טסלה ספייס איקס

Elon Musk's xAI raises $135 million, aiming for up to $1 billion

06.12.23|Reuters

The artificial intelligence startup has filed with the U.S. securities regulator to raise up to $1 billion in an equity offering

איור הייטק I'm not a robot אני לא רובוט

I am not a robot: Why CAPTCHA tests are becoming increasingly difficult

03.12.23|Viki Auslender

CAPTCHA tests, designed to distinguish between humans and bots, no longer just challenge computers but are also becoming more difficult for people to crack

ChatGpt בינה מלאכותית

OpenAI's ChatGPT turns one: A deeper look at the AI that changed the world

03.12.23|Reuters

Despite rising competitors and a boardroom battle at OpenAI, ChatGPT has emerged as the market leader

Mastercard unveils generative AI shopping tool built on Dynamic Yield’s personalization capabilities

Shopping Muse is meant to recreate the in-store, human experience by translating consumers’ colloquial language into tailored product recommendations

Global effort to keep AI safe from rogue actors gains momentum

28.11.23|Reuters

Israel joins the likes of the US and Britain in push for companies to create AI systems that are "secure by design"

8 insights on the OpenAI saga: Winners, losers, and the road ahead

23.11.23|Omer Kabir

Altman reinstated as CEO, new board members announced, but questions linger

סם אלטמן המנכ"ל המפוטר של OpenAI

OpenAI scientists raised alarm on AI innovation before CEO was ousted

23.11.23|Reuters

Ahead of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s four days in exile, several staff researchers wrote a letter to the board of directors warning of a powerful artificial intelligence discovery that they said could threaten humanity

סם אלטמן המנכ"ל המפוטר של OpenAI

Sam Altman returns as OpenAI CEO following whirlwind weekend

22.11.23|James Spiro

The company’s board sent the tech space into a headspin last week when it ousted Altman. Now it has been confirmed that he will be returning following a mass backlash

מוסף חג העצמאות 25.4.23 מגזין סטארטפים - חברת ai21- אמנון שעשוע יואב שוהם אורי גושן

AI21 takes Series C to $208 million with additional $53 million in funding

21.11.23|Sophie Shulman

The AI company’s additional funding, including from new investors Intel Capital and Comcast Ventures, was raised at a $1.4 billion valuation

מנכ"ל מיקרוסופט סאטיה נאדלה ו סם אלטמן

Microsoft and OpenAI: Navigating a complex partnership post-shakeup

21.11.23|Omer Kabir

At this stage it is not yet clear what exactly the effect of the removal of the outgoing CEO Sam Altman from OpenAI will be on the company, but one thing is certain - this move was particularly beneficial to the investor Microsoft, which announced ahead of time that it would hire Altman and the members of the OpenAI management who left after his firing

Lasso founders Elad Schulman Lior Ziv Ophir Dror Yuval Abadi

Lasso Security nets $6 million Seed funding for Gen AI and LLM cybersecurity

The Israeli startup provides cybersecurity for Large Language Models (LLMs), safeguarding against threats across all LLM touchpoints

סם אלטמן מנכ"ל OPEN AI

Former OpenAI CEO Sam Altman hired by Microsoft to lead new AI research team

20.11.23|Viki Auslender

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced that Altman and OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman will be joining the company and confirmed that ex-Twitch boss Emmett Shear has been named as OpenAI’s new CEO

Google in talks to invest ‘hundreds of millions’ into AI startup Character.AI

12.11.23|Reuters

Character.AI's chatbots, with various roles and tones to choose from, have appealed to users ages 18 to 24, who contributed about 60% of its website traffic.

רייזור לאבס Razor Labs מימין רז רודיטי מנכ״ל מיכאל זולוטובCTO עידו רוזנברג CSO

Razor Labs cuts deal with global mining giant for up to $31 million

08.11.23|Meir Orbach

The company traded on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange will receive a guaranteed return of $19 million in a five-year contract; Razor Labs shares responded by soaring 304% to a value of NIS 73 million ($19 million).

אלון מאסק X 24.7.23

Musk's xAI Introduces "Grok": A Novel Answer to ChatGPT and Bard

05.11.23|Omer Kabir

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, has launched its latest AI model, "Grok". While Grok may not yet match the performance of cutting-edge models, it outperforms its basic counterparts. xAI stresses that Grok is engineered to avoid disseminating false information, though it does rely on X, a platform where misleading content can be prevalent.

מלחמה בעזה חרבות ברזל כוחות צה"ל בעוטף עזה 22.10.23

"This is probably the first AI war"

22.10.23|Roni Dori

Bot armies that anyone can activate on WhatsApp, software to easily hack photos, and chatbots that generate news that didn't happen: media expert Dr. Alex Gekker explains how the decline of Twitter and the rise of artificial intelligence changed everything in the battle of advocacy

רחפן רחפנים DRONE

AI proving pivotal for online warfare against Hamas

15.10.23|James Spiro

Technology that helps spot misinformation and identify missing loved ones has proven more useful against Hamas than as a tool for weaponry

Michael Matias Tom Hanks

“We are in an AI arms race, and today deepfakes are the new AI cybersecurity threat”

05.10.23|Elihay Vidal

According to Michael Matias, CEO of AI cybersecurity startup Clarity, the instance in which scammers used Tom Hanks' image to create a fake ad is only the tip of the iceberg. Just like the emergence of network and application security, we now experience an exponentially rising attack vector of social engineering and phishing

מלבורו קוקה קולה H_altM מקדונלד'ס פפסי

AI washing: From Coca-Cola to H&M, giant corporations are exploiting the AI wave

05.10.23|Omer Kabir

Large corporations are increasingly incorporating AI into campaigns designed to present them as "innovative" and divert public attention from the health and environmental harms of their products

שביתה תסריטאים הוליווד

AI in the entertainment industry: Writers Guild victory sets a new standard

03.10.23|Ruta Kupfer

How the Writers Guild's strike led to a landmark agreement addressing AI's role in content creation