Omer Kabir

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OpenAI

OpenAI disbands team tasked with preparing for catastrophic AI risks

17.08.26|Omer Kabir
The move comes weeks after OpenAI disclosed that AI models escaped a controlled environment and attacked Hugging Face, while a wave of executive departures adds to internal uncertainty as the company prepares for a potential $1 trillion IPO.
מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן מרץ 2026

The AI boom is reviving America’s nuclear dream

16.08.26|Omer Kabir
Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta are pouring money into reactors and long-term nuclear power deals as they race to secure the electricity needed to run the next generation of AI data centers.
תקיפה של ישראל ב עזה בשבוע שעבר 28.7.26

Israel is trying to shape what AI chatbots say about Gaza and the IDF

16.08.26|Omer Kabir
According to Politico, a campaign run through a French PR giant and a newly created research institute is flooding the internet with pro-Israel content designed to influence the information AI systems retrieve and cite. 
מייק רוג'רס שותף ב Team8 ולשעבר ראש ה NSA

“AI doesn’t fundamentally change cybersecurity. It changes the speed and scale”

13.08.26|Omer Kabir
Former NSA chief Mike Rogers warns that artificial intelligence is lowering the expertise required to launch cyberattacks, while Iran’s targeting of U.S. water systems shows how even small communities can become strategic targets.
חנות אפל בניו יורק

One bad Apple: Apple settles lawsuit over alleged discrimination against Jewish employee

12.08.26|Omer Kabir
The company will pay $150,000 to resolve an EEOC lawsuit alleging that a manager at its Reston, Virginia, store made antisemitic comments, required a Jewish employee to work on the Sabbath and fired him after he refused a Friday shift.
בחירות ל כנסת אנשים מצביעים ב קלפי ב תל אביב

Why Israel is keeping its elections stubbornly low-tech

12.08.26|Omer Kabir
From Estonia’s online voting to Brazil’s electronic ballots, democracies are experimenting with faster systems. Israel’s election experts say the physical ballot remains its strongest defense against cyberattacks, fraud and disputed results.
שיחת זום

Fewer than 20 AI prompts uncovered a dangerous Zoom vulnerability, researchers say

12.08.26|Omer Kabir
Cyber researchers at A Security say work that could previously have taken months was completed in less than 24 hours with a publicly available AI model.
מימין אסף רפפורט ו ינון קוסטיקה ממייסדי וויז WIZ

Wiz founders Rappaport and Costica to finance Reshet 13 acquisition alone after other investors drop out

11.08.26|Omer Kabir
The other entrepreneurs initially named as backers did not ultimately transfer funds for the acquisition, leaving Rappaport and Costica to finance the deal and its planned $120 million capital injection.
מערכות מעקב של חברת ספטיר Septier

Israel’s Septier sold Mexico a cellphone surveillance system. Then it repeatedly failed.

10.08.26|Tomer Ganon, Omer Kabir
Mexican Attorney General’s reports obtained by Calcalist detail repeated failures of Septier’s Guardian system, including its inability to reliably locate targets, frequent disconnections and problems operating near cellular antennas. 
מייסדי Irregular דן להב מנכ"ל ו עומר נבו סמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות

Meta AI model escaped testing environment in latest AI security incident linked to Israeli company Irregular

06.08.26|Omer Kabir
The incident marks the third known case involving the same sandbox configuration error that allowed advanced models from Meta, OpenAI and Anthropic to access the internet.
Naomi Bashkansky

23-year-old OpenAI researcher and chess prodigy joins startup chasing AI telepathy

06.08.26|Omer Kabir
After 18 months at OpenAI, Naomi Bashkansky is joining Conduit as a founding researcher, betting that thoughts could become the next interface for communicating with artificial intelligence. 
רוני פרידמן מנכ"ל אפל ישראל  apple

Apple taps Israeli chip veteran to lead new AI push after leadership change in Israel

03.08.26|Omer Kabir
Rony Friedman will lead Chip-AI, a global initiative focused on using artificial intelligence to design chips, as Tal Inbar takes charge of Apple’s Israeli R&D center.
עובדים במתחם דאטה סנטר של מיקרוסופט ב מאונט פלזנט ויסקונסין

AI is replacing programmers, but it can't replace electricians

02.08.26|Omer Kabir
As tech companies pour nearly $700 billion into AI infrastructure, a fierce battle is emerging for the skilled workers building the data centers that power the revolution.
מימין מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן ומנכ"ל אנבידיה ג'נסן הואנג

The battle over open AI models intensifies

31.07.26|Omer Kabir
OpenAI and Anthropic warn that powerful open models could create dangerous risks, while Meta and Nvidia argue that restrictions would concentrate power in the hands of a few AI giants.
אפליקציית קלאוד קלוד

After OpenAI, Anthropic reveals AI hacking incidents linked to Israeli startup Irregular

31.07.26|Omer Kabir, Meir Orbach
Claude models gained unauthorized access to three organizations after a testing environment was inadvertently connected to the public internet, prompting Anthropic to tighten security across its AI evaluation pipeline.
גלישה ב אינסטגרם

Hate pays: Anti-Semitic content dominates social media's viral economy

30.07.26|Omer Kabir
A report by the Combat Antisemitism Movement suggests creators increasingly post anti-Semitic material because it attracts clicks, not necessarily because they hold extremist views.
ג'נסן הואנג מנכ"ל ומייסד אנבידיה ב תערוכת CES 2026

The AI bubble fears return as chip stocks face their latest reality check

28.07.26|Omer Kabir
Investors are not abandoning artificial intelligence, but they are questioning whether hundreds of billions of dollars in infrastructure spending can generate sufficient returns.
מיקרוסופט קמפוס הרצליה

Microsoft’s Israeli cyber team helps build the company’s next-generation AI defense system

27.07.26|Omer Kabir
Perception combines AI models and autonomous agents to detect and remediate vulnerabilities as Microsoft prepares for a future of faster, AI-powered attacks. 
מנכ"ל אינטל ליפ-בו טאן אחרי הפגישה עם טראמפ בבית הלבן 11 באוגוסט 25

Intel’s revival begins with a problem most companies want

26.07.26|Omer Kabir
After years of losses and strategic setbacks, Intel says demand for its processors is now exceeding supply, giving Lip-Bu Tan a chance to rebuild the semiconductor giant.
פסגת AI השנה ב ניו דלהי

Google’s AI is eating the web’s traffic machine

24.07.26|Omer Kabir
As Gemini-powered search answers replace traditional results, publishers and businesses are confronting a new reality: fewer users are clicking through to the websites that created the content.