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OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman (center) and Ilya Sutskever (right) on a panel at Tel Aviv University, June 5, 2023. (Chen Galili)

Israel will have ‘huge role’ to play in AI revolution, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says

Visiting co-founder of Microsoft-backed OpenAI says firm is examining various investment options in Israel; meets with President Herzog, speaks to high-tech leaders and students

June 5, 2023, 9:06 pm

Israel will have ‘huge role’ to play in AI revolution, OpenAI’s Sam Altman says

Visiting co-founder of Microsoft-backed OpenAI says firm is examining various investment options in Israel; meets with President Herzog, speaks to high-tech leaders and students

By Sharon Wrobel

Anat Halgoa Solomon, co-founder and CEO of Saturas showcases the Israeli startup's smart sensor-based precision irrigation system at Microsoft's booth at the World Agri-Tech Innovation Summit in San Francisco in March, 2023. (Courtesy)

May 4, 2023, 6:41 pm

Microsoft partners with Start-Up Nation Central to tap Israeli agrifood tech

US tech giant to help bring local agritech to the next level; Israeli startups work with Microsoft teams and showcase their technologies to the global marketplace

By Sharon Wrobel

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern during the post-Cabinet press conference in Wellington, New Zealand, March 7, 2022 (Mark Mitchell/Pool Photo via AP)

April 4, 2023, 3:47 pm

Ardern to begin new role combating online extremism as envoy for Christchurch Call

Ex-premier of New Zealand declines to accept pay for working to eliminate terrorist and violent extremist internet content; will also join Prince William’s environmental charity

By Nick Perry

February 7, 2023, 9:29 am

Google announces release of ChatGPT rival named Bard

Launch of conversational chatbot sets up showdown with Microsoft over generative AI that can mimic a human’s writing

By Glenn Chapman and Laurence Benhamou

A special edition of the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo marking one year after the attacks on it, on a newsstand in Paris, January 6, 2016. (AP Photo/Francois Mori, File)

February 3, 2023, 8:39 pm

Iran cyber unit attacked Charlie Hebdo over Khamenei cartoon contest, Microsoft says

State-backed hackers who have targeted Israel publish database of French outlet’s users after it called for caricatures of Iranian supreme leader

By Frank Bajak

A man stands at a cash machine of the Israel Discount Bank in Jerusalem, on July 1, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)

December 26, 2022, 7:22 pm

Bank bans credit for bigots as firms in Israel decry planned pro-discrimination laws

Microsoft, Wiz among businesses expressing concern incoming government will seek to amend rules to allow firms to refuse services if it violates their religious beliefs

By Sharon Wrobel

Microsoft development center in Herzliya Pituah, October 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/ Flash90/ File)

September 12, 2022, 11:24 pm

Microsoft integrates Israeli tech to upgrade video streaming quality

Launch comes a year after the tech giant acquired Israeli streaming firm Peer5; new capabilities feature on business communications platform Teams

By Ricky Ben-David

June 15, 2022, 10:33 am

After 27 years, Microsoft retires Internet Explorer

Tech giant will no longer provide support for browser as it pushes users to Edge instead; Google’s Chrome still dominates the market

By RICHARD JACOBSEN

Illustrative: An Iranian flag made from binary code. (Sergio Lacueva/iStock Photo by Getty Images)

June 3, 2022, 12:27 pm

Microsoft blocks Lebanese cyberattacks on Israeli firms, possibly directed by Iran

Microsoft says group it has dubbed ‘Polonium’ may be in cahoots with Tehran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security

By ToI Staff

Iris Shoor, founder and CEO of Israeli analytics company Oribi, set to be acquired by LinkedIn, February 2022. (Courtesy)

February 28, 2022, 6:07 pm

Microsoft’s LinkedIn to buy Israeli analytics startup Oribi, open local office

Tel Aviv-based company, founded in 2016, develops Google-like web tracking and analytics; transaction said to be valued at $80m

By Ricky Ben-David

January 3, 2022, 3:11 pm

Y2K redux? 2022 Microsoft bug glitches email program

A technological hiccup caused by the turning over of the calender year has been cheekily compared to the Y2K bug that panicked many at the start of the millennium

By ToI Staff

Illustrative: Likud supporters protest outside the home of Yamina MK Ayelet Shaked in Tel Aviv on May 30, 2021. (Flash90)

December 29, 2021, 11:07 pm

Report: Aiming to sow chaos in Israel, fake accounts target Likud activists online

Israeli TV claims Iranian actors created fake accounts to share extremist political content in both pro- and anti-Netanyahu Facebook groups, reached a million people

By ToI Staff

Illustrative: Kids at a gamer festival in Tel Aviv, April 2, 2018. (Gili Yaari /FLASH90)

December 16, 2021, 1:17 am

Iranian hackers targeting Israel using ultra-exploitable coding flaw — experts

As governments and internet gurus warn world over Log4j, called one of the most serious vulnerabilities ever, firm says Iran-backed APT35 tried to hit 7 Israeli targets

By AP and ToI Staff

Illustrative: A cybersecurity expert stands in front of a map of Iran as he speaks to journalists about the techniques of Iranian hacking, on September 20, 2017, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. (AP/Kamran Jebreili)

November 17, 2021, 10:30 pm

Iran-backed hackers accused of targeting ‘broad range of victims’ in US

American cyber firm says Iran targeting Israel in espionage attacks; Microsoft reports 6 Iranian groups deploying ransomware in past year

By Eric Tucker, Alan Suderman and Frank Bajak

In this October 8, 2019 file photo, a woman types on a keyboard in New York. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane, File)

October 16, 2021, 10:49 am

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has key role in state-backed hack surge, Google warns

Tech giant says Tehran group targeted campaign staffers in US 2020 election; used phishing attacks as well as trying to upload a malware app to Play Store

By ToI Staff