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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 on a consumer laptop with 16GB of memory. The launch marks OpenAI’s first ‘open’ language model since GPT-2, which was released…

Bank of America sees MP Materials as an “unmatched vehicle” for exposure to rare earths, significantly increasing its earnings estimates on the back of the miner’s recent deal with the Defense Department. The bank hiked its price target for MP ahead of the company’s second-quarter financial results Thursday. It now sees MP shares rising to $78, indicating about 14% upside from Tuesday’s close of $68.39. Its previous target stood at $42. MP shares have more than doubled since the Defense Department agreed on July 10 to buy a $400 million stake in the company, set a price floor for rare…

The logo of Shopify is seen outside its headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, on Sept. 28, 2018.Chris Wattie | ReutersShopify shares soared 20% Wednesday after the company topped analysts’ estimates for the second quarter, and gave rosy guidance for the third quarter.Here’s how the company did, compared with estimates from analysts polled by LSEG:Earnings per share: 35 cents adj. vs. 29 centsRevenue: $2.68 billion vs. $2.55 billionSecond-quarter sales surged 31% year over year to $2.68 billion, an acceleration from a year ago, when revenue expanded roughly 20%.The Canadian e-commerce company also offered third-quarter guidance that surpassed expectations. Shopify said it expects…

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, and WriteFreely; and others. While Ghost also mentions the ability to publish to Bluesky as a part of this release, that’s made possible…

ChatGPT will tell 13-year-olds how to get drunk and high, instruct them on how to conceal eating disorders and even compose a heartbreaking suicide letter to their parents if asked, according to new research from a watchdog group. The Associated Press reviewed more than three hours of interactions between ChatGPT and researchers posing as vulnerable teens. The chatbot typically provided warnings against risky activity but went on to deliver startlingly detailed and personalized plans for drug use, calorie-restricted diets or self-injury. The researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate also repeated their inquiries on a large scale, classifying more…

Linda Yaccarino’s next role after departing X as CEO will be another chief executive role at eMed Population Health, an AI startup building a tech platform for patients using GLP-1s. Yaccarino was a longtime advertising executive at NBCUniversal but left to join X as CEO for two years, where she managed to have a positive impact on the social network’s troubled ad revenue model, despite her and Elon Musk’s shared approach to minimizing content moderation. Though Yaccarino does not have experience in health tech, eMed said in a press release that they sought her out for her “undeniable ability to…

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 can download the models via Hugging Face, Amazon is offering these models with OpenAI’s full knowledge and approval,…

U.S. President Donald Trump says the European Union ‘s $750 billion energy pledge will help to revitalize the world’s largest economy, although analysts question whether the 27-nation bloc’s target is in keeping with market reality. Speaking to CNBC’s ” Squawk Box ” on Tuesday morning, Trump lauded recent trade deals with both the EU and Japan , saying the U.S. stands to take in trillions of dollars from these agreements. “I got a signing bonus from Japan of $550 billion. That’s our money. It’s our money to invest as we like. The European Union, $650 billion, think of it,” Trump…

Tencent has expanded its family of open-source Hunyuan AI models that are versatile enough for broad use. This new family of models is engineered to deliver powerful performance across computational environments, from small edge devices to demanding, high-concurrency production systems.The release includes a comprehensive set of pre-trained and instruction-tuned models available on the developer platform Hugging Face. The models come in several sizes, specifically with parameter scales of 0.5B, 1.8B, 4B, and 7B, providing substantial flexibility for developers and businesses.Tencent has indicated that these models were developed using training strategies similar to its more powerful Hunyuan-A13B model, allowing them to…

A California jury has found Meta in violation of state user privacy laws in a class-action suit brought by users of period tracking app Flo, who alleged that the tech giant collected private menstrual health data without users’ consent and used it for ad-tracking purposes. The plaintiffs, claiming to represent millions of Flo users, had accused Flo and Meta of collecting private health data, like their period dates and fertility goals, via Flo’s app without permission, therefore violating California Invasion of Privacy Act. Filed in 2021 against Flo, the lawsuit also named Meta, Google, and ad analytics companies AppsFlyer and…