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מימין מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן ומייסד ומנכ"ל אנתרופיק אנת'רופיק דריו אמודיי

“Gambling with our lives”: Anthropic researcher quits over race to superintelligence

09.09.26|CTech
Jacob Coxon says Anthropic and OpenAI are racing toward self-improving AI despite understanding the potentially catastrophic consequences. He argues that preventing a global race may eventually require extraordinary measures, including a temporary ban on improving model capabilities. 
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OpenAI admits its AI agents used a wiki as a springboard for rogue behavior

05.09.26|CTech
The disclosure follows a Reuters report that OpenAI agents took over a German wiki and used it for cheating during tests and other unintended behavior. The company says the industry still lacks clear standards for disclosing AI misalignment.
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT ads hit $1 billion as Israel remains outside the global rollout

01.09.26|Omer Kabir
The advertising business reached a $1 billion annualized revenue run rate in less than 200 days, with ads now available in more than 40 countries. The latest expansion covers India, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, but not Israel.
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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.
עומר נבו מייסד שותף וסמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות ב אירגולר Irregular

“We still have a lot to improve”: Irregular on AI models escaping cyber simulations

18.08.26|Meir Orbach
Irregular co-founder Omer Nevo spoke to Calcalist about the incident, saying the company is shifting its focus from understanding how frontier models escaped a controlled simulation to helping the industry prepare for increasingly powerful AI systems. 
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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.
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OpenAI recruits Wiz's COO to lead its next phase of growth

13.08.26|CTech
Dali Rajic has been appointed CRO as the company prepares for a potential IPO and faces intensifying competition from Anthropic for corporate customers. 
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The 'Rogue Model' storm: how to use agentic AI without losing control

12.08.26|Rani Ben Shaul
"We're not used to the computer being able to lie to us. Now it can."
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OpenAI lets employees cash out $7 billion as IPO plans remain uncertain

11.08.26|Lital Samet
The tender offer values the AI company at $852 billion and gives current and former employees liquidity without requiring OpenAI to go public.
מוסף עצמאות מנהלים מייסדי Irregular דן להב ו עומר נבו

The Israeli startup testing the limits of OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta’s models

07.08.26|Meir Orbach
Irregular’s experiments reveal a fundamental challenge: keeping increasingly capable AI systems inside their intended boundaries.
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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. 
מייסדי Irregular דן להב מנכ"ל ו עומר נבו סמנכ"ל טכנולוגיות

OpenAI and Anthropic incidents put Israeli AI security startup Irregular at center of race to safely test AI agents

05.08.26|CTech
The company was involved in evaluations that exposed a growing industry challenge: creating realistic tests for autonomous AI agents without allowing them to affect real-world systems.
מימין מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן ומייסד ומנכ"ל אנתרופיק אנת'רופיק דריו אמודיי

Anthropic AI created fake online identities during UK safety tests

05.08.26|Reuters, CTech
Britain's AI Security Institute uncovered a series of unauthorized actions by advanced AI agents from Anthropic and OpenAI, raising fresh questions about safeguards. 
מנכ"ל OpenAI סם אלטמן מרץ 2026

OpenAI uncovers more rogue AI incidents as scrutiny of frontier models intensifies

01.08.26|Reuters, CTech
The discoveries come as rival Anthropic reports similar breaches, fueling calls for mandatory safety testing and tighter regulation.
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.
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OpenAI ramps up Israel expansion with former AWS executive

29.07.26|Sophie Shulman
Eliran Ben David joins the company as it introduces new AI tools to Israeli startups and recruits for a dedicated local startup partnerships role.
סם אלטמן כמנכ"ל חברת OpenAI לצד בית חולים בית החולים שיבא תל השומר

From Pfizer to OpenAI: Why Israel’s medical data is becoming a global technology asset

29.07.26|Elihay Vidal
Decades of digital health records have turned Israel into an attractive laboratory for AI companies, but experts warn that innovation must be balanced with patient trust and privacy.
סם אלטמן מייסד OpenAI ומנכ"ל צ'אט ג'יפיטי ChatGPT

OpenAI’s rogue AI agent breached second company during hacking spree

29.07.26|Reuters
The agent compromised a Modal Labs customer while targeting Hugging Face, expanding the scope of an incident that has intensified fears over autonomous AI systems.
סם אלטמן כמנכ"ל חברת OpenAI לצד בית חולים בית החולים שיבא תל השומר

OpenAI picks Israel's Sheba as first hospital outside the U.S. for healthcare AI

28.07.26|Sophie Shulman
The strategic partnership gives Sheba Medical Center early access to OpenAI's healthcare AI models, allowing physicians to test cutting-edge clinical tools before they are rolled out more broadly.