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AI down? ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and other AI platforms suffer system outage

04.06.24|Omer Kabir

It remains unclear what has resulted in the simultaneous failure of the platforms

Intel pins AI comeback hopes on Israel-developed Lunar Lake chip

04.06.24|Omer Kabir

"Lunar Lake is more efficient in artificial intelligence performance compared to what most of the competitors have today," Arik Gihon, the architect of Lunar Lake at Intel, told Calcalist. "It's able to perform more operations per second than any other processor (for laptops) today, including the Qualcomm processor. And it's completely Israeli."

מימין שָֹרַי ברונפלד מנהלת השקעות ב NFX ו גיגי לוי שותף ב NFX

NFX’s fast track for new startups: answer within 9 days, money within 3 weeks

03.06.24|Omer Kabir

The NFX fund launched a unique investment route in April for emerging startups, promising an answer within 9 days, and money within 3 weeks. 402 companies passed the initial screening, and five have already been selected, receiving $20 million in funding. Three more are expected to receive funding totaling $6 million depending on reaching certain milestones or completing an establishment process.

Who’s behind the Israeli startup blacklisted by Meta and OpenAI?

03.06.24|Omer Kabir

According to an investigation published by Meta, Stoic, founded by Ido Stossel, operated a network of hundreds of fictitious Facebook and Instagram accounts in the US and Canada. OpenAI reported that Stoic used its generative artificial intelligence models to produce content for influence campaigns against Hamas and Qatar, in favor of Israel, and also in favor of the Histadrut.

OpenAI cracks down on Israeli "for-hire threat actor" Stoic

02.06.24|Omer Kabir

OpenAI announced that it thwarted five influence operations in the past three months, including efforts by the Israeli company Stoic, labeled as a "for-hire threat actor," which targeted audiences in North America and Israel.

"China, Russia, North Korea and Iran are leveraging ChatGPT for their needs"

02.06.24|Omer Kabir

Sherrod Degrippo, Director of Threat Intelligence Strategy at Microsoft, warns that software is fragile and explains why an old router is the most dangerous home device.

Meta shuts down Israeli network pushing AI-generated propaganda in U.S. and Canada

29.05.24|Omer Kabir

The Israeli network included 510 Facebook accounts, 11 pages, one group, and 32 Instagram accounts. Meta also said that it took down an Iranian network that was targeting users in Israel

Microsoft's new computers are a threat to both Intel and Apple

29.05.24|Omer Kabir

The AI computers introduced by Microsoft are based on Qualcomm processors—a direct threat to Intel, which has been the main processor supplier for Windows computers for decades. Additionally, questions arise about Apple's ability to close the gap with these new computers.

Nvidia’s financial leap confirms accelerating AI industry

23.05.24|Omer Kabir

Nvidia smashed revenue forecasts with a 262% jump to $26 billion. Net profit soared 628% to $14.88 billion. The company raised its forecasts and expects revenues of $28 billion in the next quarter

Israel's tech boom faces global headwinds amid geopolitical tensions

06.05.24|Omer Kabir

Fallout in academia, with boycotts of Israeli researchers and cancellations of collaborations, threatens the R&D pipeline critical to Israel's tech prominence. This chilling effect could severely undermine the sector's competitiveness over time.

מנכ"ל אפל טים קוק בפתיחת חנות אפל בשנגחאי

Apple's AI shortcomings put Samsung's smartphones back in the lead

18.04.24|Omer Kabir

In the first quarter, iPhone sales fell by 9.6% and Samsung returned to dominate the market. Apple will look to show it has closed the gap in the AI race in its conference in June. The obstacle: a Chinese ban on government employees using iPhones

The hidden battle for data dominance: AI giants' secret struggle

18.04.24|Omer Kabir

The generative artificial intelligence market is engaged in a new competitive race for a particularly critical resource: data. According to estimates, soon the data available online will not keep up with the required pace and there will be nothing to train the models behind services like ChatGTP and Gemini. The obvious solutions: transcribing videos and recordings or a technological development that circumvents the problem

שלומית וייס מנהלת ראשית של ארגון ההנדסה של אינטל העולמית

SVP Shlomit Weiss leaving Intel amid engineering reorganization

17.04.24|Omer Kabir

Weiss returned to Intel three years ago to serve as senior vice president and co-general manager of its Design Engineering Group. Intel confirmed her departure but asserted that Weiss' retirement was unrelated to an ongoing engineering reorganization process

מנטיבוט רובוט דמוי אדם מציית לפקודות אמנון שעשוע בינה מלאכותית

There’s a new humanoid in town: How does Amnon Shashua's MenteeBot stack up against the competition?

17.04.24|Omer Kabir

Mentee Robotics, which has raised $17 million to date, was founded in 2022 by Prof. Amnon Shashua, the founder of Mobileye, Prof. Lior Wolf, formerly a research scientist and director at Facebook AI Research, and Prof. Shai Shalev-Shwartz, a world-renowned computer scientist and machine learning researcher. The production-ready prototype is expected to be deployed by Q1 2025 and will be powered by camera-only sensing, proprietary electric motors that support unprecedented dexterity, and fully integrated AI.

The price of failure: Dutch company's chip monopoly born from a bad bet by Intel

15.04.24|Omer Kabir

China or the US, who holds the real power in the global chip industry? Behind the investments in manufacturing giants such as Intel and TSMC is an assumption that whoever controls chip production has the power to direct the future of the global economy. But the real power may not be in the hands of the chip manufacturers themselves, but rather ASML, the company that owns the technology to manufacture the expensive machines that are used to manufacture the chips.

The AI talent gold rush: Tech giants offering million-dollar salaries, accelerated options

03.04.24|Omer Kabir

The technology giants are chasing after the hot talents in artificial intelligence with lucrative pay offers and an accelerated track for options. Google founder Sergey Brin even called one of the engineers to prevent him from moving to OpenAI

Israel confronts sharp rise in cyber attacks from Iran and Hezbollah amid war

31.03.24|Omer Kabir

According to the annual report published by Israel’s National Cyber Directorate, from October 7 to the end of 2023, the number of cyber attacks jumped by 2.5 times

China's three main goals in escalating chip war with US

26.03.24|Omer Kabir

China is expanding the war to the software front, and has also begun to block the use of chips made by Intel and AMD in government computers. The move will allow China to enhance national security, harm the US economically and create strong local competitors for the American chip companies

Yango divests Israeli taxi operations to local investors

21.03.24|Omer Kabir

Established by the Russian technology firm Yandex, Yango is restructuring its operations amid sanctions imposed on Russian companies due to the Ukraine invasion. This includes transitioning taxi operations to local franchisees across various countries

Is the Google-Apple AI deal a game changer?

18.03.24|Omer Kabir

According to Bloomberg, Apple is holding negotiations to integrate Google's artificial intelligence engine into its iPhones; the deal could make Google one of the clear winners in the AI race, and will improve Apple's capabilities in the field

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