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OpenAI Adds Cybersecurity Veteran To Lead Its Cyber Team<\/a><\/p>\n

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Using an unordered list, summarize the following article with between 4 and 8 key points. OpenAI has added another cybersecurity veteran to its roster, as the company looks to beef up its headcount across product development, engineering, research and sales.Clint Gibler announced on X that he has joined OpenAI as a member of the technical staff and will be working with Michael Aiello, OpenAI’s head of product for cyber.\u00a0“I believe we have an unparalleled opportunity to fundamentally improve cybersecurity in ways that were previously impossible. Now, at OpenAI, I’m thrilled to be a part of a company helping shape how software is written, and how security work gets done. It is a massive opportunity, and responsibility, and I don’t take that lightly,” he wrote.Prior to joining the ChatGPT maker, Gibler previously spent six years as the head of research at software development company Semgrep. He also worked at IT services and consulting company NCC Group working in several security related roles throughout his more than four year tenure.Gibler is also the founder of a blog called tl;dr sec, which provides software development and cybersecurity research to industry professionals.OpenAI\u2019s Hiring SpreeOther recent hires at OpenAI include former Ironclad CEO Jason Boehmig, who will lead its product team responsible for building products for the legal industry and\u00a0 Salesforce AgentExchange CEO Brian Landsman as its vice president of global partnerships.The company plans to nearly double its workforce to 8,000 from 4,5000 by the end of the year, the Financial Times reported.\u00a0Several employees from the company have also left in recent months to join rival Anthropic.\u00a0Clive Chan announced his departure from OpenAI in a post on X. Chan worked at OpenAI for a little over two years as a member of the technical staff, and left earlier this month to join Anthropic in the same role.Anthropic hired the co-founder of OpenAI and former director of artificial intelligence and Autopilot Vision at Tesla, Andrej Karpathy. He is expected to create a new team focused on using Claude itself to speed up research on pre-training, an Anthropic spokesperson told TechCrunch.Karpathy is one of several OpenAI figures to land at Anthropic in under two years. Jan Leike, OpenAI\u2019s former head of alignment, made the move in May 2024. Co-founder John Schulman followed that August.Earlier this week, OpenAI submitted a confidential draft registration statement on Form S-1 to the SEC, a disclosure the company made in unusually candid fashion.”We recently submitted a confidential S-1. We expect it to leak so we’re just announcing it,” OpenAI said in a statement on its website.\u00a0“We have not decided on timing yet; it may be a while because there are things we want to do that are likely easier as a private company. But it’s a complicated set of tradeoffs and this gives us the option to go public sooner if that ends up being best,” the statement read.Photo: Shutterstock
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