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Microsoft is making OpenAI’s new free and open GPT model,gpt-oss-20b, available to Windows 11 users viaWindows AI Foundry, the tech giant’s platform that lets users tap AI features, APIs, and popular open source models on their computers. The company said in ablog postthat gpt‑oss-20b is “tool-savvy and lightweight,” adding: “Optimized for agentic tasks like code […]

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 developa

While other tech companies push out AI tools at full speed, Apple is taking its time. Its Apple Intelligence features – shown off at WWDC – won’t reach most users until at least 2025 or even 2026. Some see this as Apple falling behind, but the company’s track record suggests it prefers to launch only

Sales automation startup Clay has raised a $100 million Series C at a $3.1 billion valuation in a round led by CapitalG, confirmingTechCrunch’s report from June. The financing follows a $1.25 billion Series B round from six months ago and a $1.5 billion Sequoia-led tender offerannounced a couple of months ago, which allowed most employees

Sam Altman’s blowtorch to his competitors is so hot, it even includes a new partnership with Amazon Web Services. As OpenAI announcedtwo open-weight reasoning modelswith capabilities on par with its o-series, Amazonannouncedthat the new models would become available on AWS on Tuesday. This is the first time that OpenAI models will be offered by AWS,

“This is a very scary position to be in. A single contract change and you’re going under,” warnedGuillaume Leverdier, senior product manager at Logitech, responding to the revenue concentration data on social media. The AI Impact Series Returns to San Francisco – August 5 The next phase of AI is here – are you ready?

OpenAI announced Tuesday the launch of two open-weight AI reasoning models with similar capabilitiesto its o series. Both are freely available to download from the online developer platformHugging 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

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly s to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders.Subscribe Now OpenAI isgetting back to its roots as an open source AI companywithtoday’s announcementand release of two new, open source, frontier large language models (LLMs):gpt-oss-120b and gpt-oss-20b. The former is a

When Cloudflare accused AI search engine Perplexity ofstealthily scraping websiteson Monday, while ignoring a site’s specific methods to block it, this wasn’t a clear-cut case of an AI web crawler gone wild. Many people came to Perplexity’s defense. They argued that Perplexity accessing sites in defiance of the website owner’s wishes, while controversial, is acceptable.

The European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act,known as the EU AI Act, has beendescribedby 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,