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Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

techcrunch.com Ivan Mehta 2025-12-11 22:45:38

European search engines Qwant and Ecosia said on Wednesday that they have both started serving search queries through an index they developed together, Staan, which aims to be a cheaper, more privacy-focused alternative to Google and Bing. Last year, French privacy-focused search engine Qwant struck a joint venture with German non-profit search engine Ecosia, to develop a European search index. Called European Search Perspective (EUSP), the JV now aims to serve around 50% of French queries and

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Anthropic rejects the main developer of the library they use

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 23:25:43

An AI generated image of an AI using its hands to reject me. Very meta, I know I gave the AI arms and legs — then it rejected me 2025-07-03 In October 2024, Anthropic released "Claude Computer Use". It allows an AI to control a computer and for example copy data from a browser to a spreadsheet. It's a really cool feature and since I am the maintainer of a library that allows controlling a computer, I was curious to find out how they do it and learn from them. I didn't have time to look into i

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OpenAI returns to its open-source roots with new open-weight AI models, and it's a big deal

zdnet.com Steven Vaughan-Nichols 2025-12-11 22:09:42

Beata Zawrzel/NurPhoto via Getty Images We all know AI relies on open-source software, but most of the big AI companies avoid opening their code or their large language model (LLM) weights. Today, things have changed. OpenAI, the artificial intelligence titan behind ChatGPT, announced a landmark return to its open-source origins. The company unveiled two new open-weight language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, marking its first public release of freely available AI model weights since GP

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I built a tool to help people remove their info from the Tea App

news.ycombinator.com Unknown 2025-12-11 23:57:05

From: To: [email protected], [email protected] Copy Subject: Request for Immediate Removal of Unauthorized Personal Information Copy To Whom It May Concern, My name is . I have discovered that my personal information is being published and distributed through the Tea Dating Advice app without my knowledge or consent. This includes a post referencing me. This anonymous and unverified content violates my right to privacy, and I am requesting the immediate removal of any

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Banned Steam game VILE: Exhumed is back as a free shareware title

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-12 06:52:20

After her game was banned from sale on Steam in a baffling decision with no appeal option , solo developer Cara Cadaver has made VILE: Exhumed available as shareware under a Creative Commons license. The project can be downloaded for free, but players can opt to donate in support of the solo developer's work. Both Cara and publisher DreadXP will pay forward those donations, with 50 percent of the game's profits being given to the Toronto-based charity Red Door Family Shelter . The group aids fam

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Top AI Experts Concerned That OpenAI Has Betrayed Humankind

futurism.com Unknown 2025-12-12 10:02:40

In a scathing open letter, luminaries from the AI industry and beyond are calling on OpenAI to prove that it hasn't betrayed humanity in favor of profits. Referring to themselves as the "legal beneficiaries of your charitable mission" — that is, members of the human species OpenAI pledged to benefit when it was granted nonprofit status in 2015 — the open letter, signed by the likes of AI Godfather Geoffrey Hinton and AI researcher Gary Marcus, charges the Sam Altman-run company with essentially

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Anthropic's powerful Opus 4.1 model is here - how to access it (and why you'll want to)

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-12 11:26:15

Anthropic / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic launched Claude Opus 4.1. The model exceeds the predecessor's performance on complex tasks. It is available to paid Claude users, Claude Code, API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud's Vertex AI. In May, Anthropic released Claude Opus 4, which the company dubbed its most powerful model yet and the best coding model in the world. Only three months later, Anthropic is upping the ante further by launching the highly anticipated Claude Opus 4.1, w

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OpenAI's New Models Aren't Really Open: What to Know About Open-Weights AI

cnet.com See Full Bio 2025-12-12 10:11:45

Despite the company's name, OpenAI hasn't dropped an open version of its AI models since GPT-2 in 2019. That changed on Tuesday, as CEO Sam Altman shared two new open-weights, reasoning AI models, named gpt-oss-120b (120 billion parameters) and gpt-oss-20b (20 billion parameters). If open-weights is a new piece of AI jargon to you, don't worry. In the simplest possible terms, open-weights is a category of AI models that power products like chatbots, image and video generators. But they are phil

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OpenAI could launch GPT-5 any minute now - what to expect

zdnet.com Sabrina Ortiz 2025-12-12 16:49:00

Elyse Betters Picaro / ZDNET ZDNET's key takeaways OpenAI GPT-5 will be released "soon," which could be this week. It will automatically select the best model for prompts. It should help produce higher-quality and faster answers. Despite OpenAI just launching its highly anticipated open-source models on Tuesday, people are already on the lookout for OpenAI's next big move, with rumblings of an even bigger release on the near horizon: GPT-5. Also: ChatGPT can no longer tell you to break up

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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy

news.ycombinator.com Brian Merchant 2025-12-12 15:19:25

Greetings all — Busy week in BITM land. Got home from some travel only to take off to SF to speak on a panel about AI and work for a CalMatters conference with state lawmakers and labor leaders, and made it back to LA in time for the 404 live event night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into a bunch of BITM readers. I met ambitious students examining the history of tech and labor in the entertainment industry, veteran tech policy campaigners, and some young critical journos. You all are the

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The best laptop deals you can get right now

theverge.com Sheena Vasani 2025-12-12 16:23:21

If you want a great laptop, you’re going to have to fork over a ton of money, right? Not necessarily. There are dozens of good laptops on the market at various price points. However, it can feel overwhelming to find the right one for your needs (some are better suited for, say, college students, whereas others are ideal for gamers). That’s why we’ve come up with this list of some of the best laptop deals available right now. In addition to the latest discounts, we’ll share each discounted model

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For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

techcrunch.com Julie Bort 2025-12-12 16:06:26

Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his competitors is so hot, it even includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. As OpenAI announced two open-weight reasoning models with capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazon announced that the new models would become available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time that OpenAI models will be offered by AWS, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. They will be available as a model choice with Amazon AI services Bedrock and SageMaker AI. While anyone c

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Anthropic’s new Claude 4.1 dominates coding tests days before GPT-5 arrives

venturebeat.com Michael Nuñez 2025-12-12 21:04:56

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now Anthropic released an upgraded version of its flagship artificial intelligence model Monday, achieving new performance heights in software engineering tasks as the AI startup races to maintain its dominance in the lucrative coding market ahead of an expected competitive challenge from OpenAI. The new Claude Opus 4.1 model scored 74.5% on S

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Don’t hold your breath for OpenAI’s new model to run on your phone’s Snapdragon chip

androidauthority.com Unknown 2025-12-12 21:09:16

TL;DR The new OpenAI model can now run directly on some devices with Snapdragon chips. It’s the first time an OpenAI reasoning model has been made available for on-device use. This could mean faster, more private AI features on your phone, just not yet. When you use an AI model like ChatGPT, it runs in the cloud rather than on your phone or laptop, but Qualcomm seems eager to change that. The company has announced that OpenAI’s first open-source reasoning model, with the less-than-catchy name

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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

news.ycombinator.com Brian Merchant 2025-12-12 21:19:25

Greetings all — Busy week in BITM land. Got home from some travel only to take off to SF to speak on a panel about AI and work for a CalMatters conference with state lawmakers and labor leaders, and made it back to LA in time for the 404 live event night, where I had the pleasure of bumping into a bunch of BITM readers. I met ambitious students examining the history of tech and labor in the entertainment industry, veteran tech policy campaigners, and some young critical journos. You all are the

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OpenAI Finally Lives Up to Its Name, Drops Two New Open Source AI Models

gizmodo.com Lucas Ropek 2025-12-12 21:50:14

For the first time in five years, OpenAI has released two new free and open-source AI models that are lightweight and designed to be easily integrated into other software programs. In a blog post on Tuesday, the company characterized gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b as flexible but powerful AI algorithms that can perform a variety of tasks and be used in numerous settings. The company also included a feedback portal and a more extensive blog that further explains the models and how they work. OpenA

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Here’s the redesigned AirDrop icon in iOS 26

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-13 02:39:48

Apple has updated every Home Screen app icon in iOS 26. As of beta 5, AirDrop has undergone the same redesign for its icon in the share sheet. The previous version consisted of a blue dot within three blue semi-circles on a white background. The new version uses blue as the primary icon color, using layers of the opaque glass-like material to show the radar effect around a much more physical looking blip. The new AirDrop icon appears prominently in the share sheet on iPhone and iPad. It’s also

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OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run on your laptop

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-13 00:00:52

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is releasing a new open-weight model dubbed GPT-OSS that can be downloaded for free, be customized, and even run on a laptop. The model comes in two variants: 120-billion-parameter and 20-billion-parameter versions. The bigger version can run on a single Nvidia GPU and performs similarly to OpenAI’s existing o4-mini model, while the smaller version performs similarly to o3-mini and runs on just 16GB

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OpenAI returns to open source roots with new models gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b

venturebeat.com Carl Franzen 2025-12-13 06:00:00

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now OpenAI is getting back to its roots as an open source AI company with today’s announcement and release of two new, open source, frontier large language models (LLMs): gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. The former is a 120-billion parameter model as the name would suggest, capable of running on a single Nvidia H100 graphics processing unit (GPU)

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OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models

technologyreview.com Grace Huckins 2025-12-13 06:00:00

“The vast majority of our [enterprise and startup] customers are already using a lot of open models,” said Casey Dvorak, a research program manager at OpenAI, in a media briefing about the model release. “Because there is no [competitive] open model from OpenAI, we wanted to plug that gap and actually allow them to use our technology across the board.” The new models come in two different sizes, the smaller of which can theoretically run on 16 GB of RAM—the minimum amount that Apple currently o

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Apple releases developer beta 5 for visionOS 26

9to5mac.com Marcus Mendes 2025-12-13 06:10:35

Alongside the new macOS 26 developer beta 5, Apple has also pushed out the fifth developer beta of visionOS 26, and the rest of its operating systems. The build number for today’s visionOS 26 beta 5 release is 23M5311g. If you want to enroll in the developer beta program for Apple Vision Pro, here’s what you’ve got to do: Open the Settings app Choose “General” Choose “Software Update” Select “Beta Updates” Select “visionOS Developer Beta” What’s new? As announced on WWDC25, visionOS 26 brin

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OpenAI releases two open-weight AI models, including one that runs well on Apple Silicon Macs

9to5mac.com Zac Hall 2025-12-13 06:29:25

Living up to its name, OpenAI has released not one but two new open-weight AI models after promising to deliver a new open-weight model earlier this year. The two models, gpt-oss-20b and gpt-oss-120b, are available to download for free now. What makes open-weight models special? Specifically, these are AI models that can be downloaded and run on computers with adequate resources for powering local AI models. No internet connection is required because access to the model provider’s server isn’t

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OpenAI's first new open-weight LLMs in six years are here

engadget.com Unknown 2025-12-13 06:00:19

For the first time since GPT-2 in 2019, OpenAI is releasing new open-weight large language models. It's a major milestone for a company that has increasingly been accused of forgoing its original stated mission of "ensuring artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity." Now, following multiple delays for additional safety testing and refinement, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b are available to download from Hugging Face. Before going any further, it's worth taking a moment to clarify w

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I tested Dell's XPS successor, and it made my $3,000 Windows laptop look bad

zdnet.com Cesar Cadenas 2025-12-13 06:09:00

Dell Premium 16 ZDNET's key takeaways The Dell Premium 16 starts at $1,800. This is a premium laptop capable of handling heavy workloads, especially graphic design, thanks to its top-notch hardware. However, it does share some of the same issues as its predecessor, like its tendency to run warm and power-hungry battery. View now at Dell I've been dying to get my hands on the new Dell Premium 16, mainly because it is a follow-up to the Dell XPS 16, a laptop that I reviewed back in early 2024 a

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OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.

arstechnica.com Unknown 2025-12-13 06:55:43

OpenAI is preparing to raise what could be its final defense to stop The New York Times from digging through a spectacularly broad range of ChatGPT logs to hunt for any copyright-infringing outputs that could become the most damning evidence in the hotly watched case. In a joint letter Thursday, both sides requested to hold a confidential settlement conference on August 7. Ars confirmed with the NYT's legal team that the conference is not about settling the case but instead was scheduled to set

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OpenAI Just Released Its First Open-Weight Models Since GPT-2

wired.com Reece Rogers 2025-12-13 06:00:21

OpenAI just dropped its first open-weight models in over five years. The two language models, gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b, can run locally on consumer devices and be fine-tuned for specific purposes. For OpenAI, they represent a shift away from its recent strategy of focusing on proprietary releases, as the company moves towards a wider, and more open, group of AI models that are available for users. "We're excited to make this model, the result of billions of dollars of research, available to

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OpenAI releases a free GPT model that can run right on your laptop

theverge.com Alex Heath 2025-12-13 06:00:52

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is releasing a new open-weight model dubbed GPT-OSS that can be downloaded for free, be customized, and even run on a laptop. The model comes in two variants: 120-billion-parameter and 20-billion-parameter versions. The bigger version can run on a single Nvidia GPU and performs similarly to OpenAI’s existing o4-mini model, while the smaller version performs similarly to o3-mini and runs on just 16GB

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The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation: Here’s what it is

techcrunch.com Anna Heim 2025-12-13 05:24:10

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act, known as the EU AI Act, has been described by the European Commission as “the world’s first comprehensive AI law.” After years in the making, it is progressively becoming a part of reality for the 450 million people living in the 27 countries that comprise the EU. The EU AI Act, however, is more than a European affair. It applies to companies both local and foreign, and it can affect both providers and deployers of AI systems; the European Commi

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OpenAI launches two ‘open’ AI reasoning models

techcrunch.com Maxwell Zeff 2025-12-13 06:00:00

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of two open-weight AI reasoning models with similar capabilities to its o-series. Both are freely available to download from the online developer platform, Hugging Face, the company said, describing the models as “state-of-the-art” when measured across several benchmarks for comparing open models. The models come in two sizes: a larger and more capable gpt-oss-120b model that can run on a single Nvidia GPU, and a lighter-weight gpt-oss-20b model that can run

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Substack rival Ghost connects to the open social web with its latest public release

techcrunch.com Sarah Perez 2025-12-13 06:16:02

After months of beta testing, newsletter platform Ghost has shipped a new version of its software, Ghost 6, that allows its publishers to share their long-form content natively with the broader open social web. That means in addition to publishing their newsletters to the web, RSS, and sending them out via email, Ghost’s users can also natively connect with services like the decentralized X rival Mastodon; Meta’s Threads; Flipboard; WordPress sites that have integrated with ActivityPub, Surf, an

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Qwant and Ecosia debut Staan, a European search index that aims to take on Big Tech

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For the first time, OpenAI models are available on AWS

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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)

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Here’s the redesigned AirDrop icon in iOS 26

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OpenAI has finally released open-weight language models

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I tested Dell's XPS successor, and it made my $3,000 Windows laptop look bad

OpenAI offers 20 million user chats in ChatGPT lawsuit. NYT wants 120 million.

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The EU AI Act aims to create a level playing field for AI innovation: Here’s what it is

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