On Tuesday, OpenAI announced a partnership with Oracle to develop 4.5 gigawatts of additional data center capacity for its Stargate AI infrastructure platform in the US. The expansion, which TechCrunch reports is part of a $30 billion per year deal between OpenAI and Oracle, will reportedly bring OpenAI’s total Stargate capacity under development to over...
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What to know about ToolShell, the SharePoint threat under mass exploitation
Government agencies and private industry have been under siege over the past four days following the discovery that a critical vulnerability in SharePoint, the widely used document-sharing app made by Microsoft, is under mass exploitation. Since that revelation, the fallout and the ever-increasing scope of the attacks have been hard to keep track of. What...
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A power utility is reporting suspected pot growers to cops. EFF says that’s illegal.
In May 2020, Sacramento, California, resident Alfonso Nguyen was alarmed to find two Sacramento County Sheriff’s deputies at his door, accusing him of illegally growing cannabis and demanding entry into his home. When Nguyen refused the search and denied the allegation, one deputy allegedly called him a liar and threatened to arrest him. That same...
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Google A.I. System Wins Gold In International Math Olympiad
OpenAI said it, too, had built a system that achieved similar results.
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SharePoint vulnerability with 9.8 severity rating under exploit across globe
Authorities and researchers are sounding the alarm over the active mass exploitation of a high-severity vulnerability in Microsoft SharePoint Server that’s allowing attackers to make off with sensitive company data, including authentication tokens used to access systems inside networks. Researchers said anyone running an on-premises instance of SharePoint should assume their networks are breached. The...
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OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement
On Saturday, OpenAI researcher Alexander Wei announced that a new AI language model the company is researching has achieved gold medal-level performance on the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO), matching a standard that fewer than 9 percent of human contestants reach each year. The announcement came despite an embargo request from IMO organizers asking AI companies...
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How a Sequoia Capital Partner’s Mamdani Posts Dragged the Firm Into Politics
Sequoia Capital, which backed Nvidia, Google and Apple when they were start-ups, has long stayed above the fray. But one partner’s post about Zohran Mamdani set off a chain reaction.
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How a Video Studio Embraced A.I. and Stormed the Internet
The Dor Brothers are indie filmmakers whose viral videos are generated entirely by artificial intelligence.
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(BPRW) NAACP and Advocacy Groups Appeal Permit for xAI’s South Memphis Data Center, decisions around unpermitted methane gas turbines
(Black PR Wire) MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Southern Environmental Law Center, on behalf of the NAACP and Young, Gifted & Green, filed an appeal with the Memphis and Shelby County Air Pollution Control Board, challenging the Shelby County Health D…
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Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championship
A Polish programmer running on fumes recently accomplished what may soon become impossible: beating an advanced AI model from OpenAI in a head-to-head coding competition. The 10-hour marathon left him “completely exhausted.” On Wednesday, programmer Przemysław Dębiak (known as “Psyho”), a former OpenAI employee, narrowly defeated the custom AI model in the AtCoder World Tour...