Omer Kabir

20 stories about Omer Kabir
מטה אנבידיה Nvidia סנטה קלרה קליפורניה

Nvidia on track for blockbuster deal: to acquire Hugging Face for $12.9 billion

27.08.26|Omer Kabir
If completed, the acquisition of the AI developer platform would rank among the chip giant’s largest deals, further strengthening Nvidia’s dominance of the AI ecosystem beyond its control of the processors required to train and run AI models
מארק צוקרברג מדגים את משקפי ה־ AI של מטא

Meta got off easy, but the settlement it reached could be a game-changer

26.08.26|Omer Kabir
The fact that in its biggest trial and against the most formidable plaintiffs, Meta managed to secure a cushy settlement - offers a glimpse of what lies ahead in the other cases: token payouts, commitments to modest changes, and business as usual 
נוער נערות רשתות חברתיות סמארטפון

Meta in talks to settle addiction lawsuit, fine could reach $1.4 trillion

26.08.26|Omer Kabir
Testimony from senior company officials revealed that Meta presented data to the public that significantly underestimated the extent of youth exposure to offensive content, even though internal surveys showed data that was hundreds of times higher.
סקין קמפיין השפעה רוסית IBI

OpenAI exposes Russian campaign promoting fake Israeli “research institute"

26.08.26|Omer Kabir
The influence campaign used AI tools to promote IBI, a fictitious research institute that was presented as an Israeli entity. OpenAI estimates that the impact of the campaign was limited.
מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן מרץ 2026

Sam Altman admits he underestimated how slowly the economy would embrace AI

24.08.26|Omer Kabir
The OpenAI CEO says he expected much faster disruption from AI, but companies and consumers have proved far more resistant to changing established habits.
בניין אינטל ב חיפה

Intel expands Israeli R&D role as it unveils next-generation server architecture

24.08.26|Omer Kabir
Diamond Rapids will support up to 256 cores and use modular computing units.
סרטונים שהשתמשו ב־ AI של אושר שקלים משמאל ושל דבי ביטון מביחד-יש עתיד

1,097 AI posts and counting: How Israeli politicians are using AI to win votes

18.08.26|Omer Kabir
A new Open University project tracking political content found that 12.7% of posts published since July 28 used AI, often in ways that are difficult for voters to recognize.
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.