Microsoft server hack impacts around 100 organisations; Stargate aims to build small data centre this year; Google and OpenAI models excel at Mathematical Olympiad
Microsoft has sounded an alert and released a fix after hackers exploited a vulnerability in it SharePoint software in order to target businesses and government agencies. According to researchers, about 100 organisations were impacted and these included major industrial firms, banks, auditors, healthcare companies, and multiple U.S. state-level and international government entities. The hack was a zero day exploit, which refers to a cyber-security attack that is considered serious because it exploits an unknown security vulnerability, meaning that security engineers have had 'zero days' in order to work on a fix.
Other cybersecurity figures have also backed the number of affected organisations, but warned that the effects of the hack could be far-reaching and involve more serious consequences over longer time periods. The exact identity of the perpetrator is not confirmed, but Google said some of the activity could be linked to a 'China-nexus threat actor.'
Stargate aims to build small data centre this year
The $500 billion Stargate Project backed by OpenAI, SoftBank, and Oracle that aims to accelerate America's AI infrastructure has set a more basic goal: building a small data centre by the end of the year. This will probably take place in Ohio, per The Wall Street Journal. However, the collaboration may not have been smooth sailing as the report cited sources who claimed that SoftBank and OpenAI did not agree on key partnership terms, such as where to build the sites. Project Stargate was intended to create more than 100,000 jobs in the country.
Both SoftBank and OpenAI have confirmed that they were moving 'with urgency on site assessments' apart from also advancing projects in multiple U.S. states. Meanwhile, Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison said the first data centre was already under construction in Texas.
Google and OpenAI models excel at Mathematical Olympiad
Google and OpenAI both announced that their artificial-intelligence (AI) models crossed the threshold needed to score gold at the International Mathematical Olympiad for high-school students. They both solved five out of six problems and used general-purpose 'reasoning' models to work through the mathematical concepts using natural language. While the International Mathematical Olympiad has been used as a benchmark to test the mathematical abilities of AI models in the past, this marks the first time the competition coordinated officially with some AI technologists.
For the competition this year, Google used a general-purpose model called Gemini Deep Think while rival OpenAI relied on a new experimental model that focused on scaling up 'test-time compute.' The new achievements unlocked by the companies come with promising potential for mathematicians as well as those from other scientific disciplines to better integrate AI models in their research process.
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