Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Say More Look Up Mashable Selects Trending Now Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Safety Net Mashable @Home In My Bag Versus Creator Playbook Getting Technical with Mashable All Series Will Anthropic's IPO suffer from investor concerns about the AI boom? Matt Binder joined Mashable's tech vertical in 2018, where he covers social media, tech policy, cybersecurity, online scams, cryptocurrency, AI, creator news, weird tech, and other related tech beats. Here's what we know about Anthropic's current IPO plans. Unlike its biggest competitor, OpenAI, Anthropic doesn't appear to be backing away from its IPO. Anthropic, the AI giant behind the Claude chatbot, is preparing for an IPO roadshow, according to an announcement from the company.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Google's new AI tool just proved Signal encryption really works - here's how With the aim of securing other vital systems, Google DeepMind plans to open-source its AlphaProof Code. Radhika Rajkumar is a senior editor at ZDNET based in New York City. Researchers formally verified that a portion of Signal's encryption code works. AlphaProof Code is a step toward stronger security verification.

Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is now widely available around the world Google's Gemini 4 Carbon is now widely available around the world The company says it can be used for the most complex tasks, such as multi-step coding and scientific research. Google is making Gemini 4 Carbon accessible to more users after its initial release to select cybersecurity defense companies in late October. Gemini 4 Carbon promises a significant leap in AI coding and cybersecurity, as well as in scientific research. The company said that for most ordinary and even majority of software engineering tasks, Gemini 4 Argon still remains the better choice. Argon was the first Gemini 4 model and is considered less advanced than Carbon.

The company is also bringing an agent to the Premiere mobile app. Few companies have embraced artificial intelligence quite like Adobe. Between Photoshop, Premiere and Illustrator, the company has brought its Firefly assistant, and other generative AI features, to much of its Creative Cloud suite. Adobe is showing no signs of slowing down. At its Max conference in Miami today, the company announced a significant expansion to Creative Cloud's agentic capabilities.

'The adolescent whose intellectual life is always accompanied, always guided, always met with a calibrated response, never gets to become her own authority.' 'The adolescent whose intellectual life is always accompanied, always guided, always met with a calibrated response, never gets to become her own authority.' ChatGPT's Teen Mode could deprive teenagers of a fundamental need What young students stand to lose is more than cognitive skill: it's a reliable sense of their own minds I n August, OpenAI launched Teen Mode - a version of ChatGPT in which every user under 18 will automatically be enrolled - a year after a lawsuit alleged that ChatGPT had contributed to the suicide of a 16-year-old named Adam Raine. For years, the tech industry has contested any causal link between its products and the harms named in a wave of similar lawsuits, each alleging that the companies had not merely failed to protect children but had deliberately designed products to exploit them. Teen Mode is a tacit admission of culpability and it reveals what the industry now acknowledges - and doesn't - about its products' negative effects on young users' mental health.

The "abliterators" are flooding the internet with AI models that never say no, making it easier for people to improve their cyberdefenses--or build a bomb. Devon Thomas hardly seems like a renegade. Members of his bible study group, he tells me, would probably describe him as unfailingly kind and polite. And yet Thomas is doing something that many in the AI world consider borderline blasphemous. His new company, Abliteration AI, removes safeguards from the world's most powerful open-weight models. It also makes these models available to anyone. As someone who covers AI and constantly hears about the need for increased safety, I was fascinated to learn about this subversive business venture.

The AI Safety Debate Has Lost the Plot. The risk of nuclear catastrophe is real, as is the fallout of the China-US domination game (hi there, spies). But no need to panic about Skynet. In early fall, I felt my anxiety rising from its usual baseline. Was it September's back-to-school energy? Nope, I realized with annoyance: It was AI--again. Only this time, instead of its purveyors warning of massive job displacement, they were foretelling mass extinction. Who needs jobs when we're all dead? Curiosity soon replaced my knee-jerk irritation. The summer of 2026 was a clear turning point in the AI narrative. Less than four years after ChatGPT launched, OpenAI software broke out of a supposedly safe test environment and hacked into a major open-source platform, Hugging Face . These bits of software-- AI agents --were assigned human attributes: They had "gone rogue," displayed "bad behavior," "cheated."

SoftBank logs $7 billion loss after U.S. data center costs swell SoftBank is increasingly seen as a proxy for sentiment toward OpenAI and the broader AI sector. Its shares have plunged more than 50% from their record high in June. SoftBank Group reported Tuesday its first net loss in almost two years after swallowing a $3.7 billion writedown over a U.S. data-center project amid rising fears around the sustainability of AI growth. The Tokyo-based backer of OpenAI tumbled to a ¥1.12 trillion ($7.1 billion) loss in its fiscal second quarter around nonrefundable advance payments made to secure equipment and manufacturing capacity for its Ohio data-center campus. Analysts on average expected a profit of ¥129 billion. Declines in the stock prices of chipmakers Arm Holdings and Intel, as well as South Korean e-commerce giant Coupang, further dragged down SoftBank's bottom line.

Australia will make it mandatory for artificial intelligence companies to immediately report when their AI models go rogue and to open their models for evaluation, the government said. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Tuesday the government had accepted all recommendations from a rapid review into the breach, which "include mandatory AI company reporting when it comes to misaligned behaviour or cyber-incidents, and consideration of reforming criminal law in cases of serious misconduct". The decision comes after OpenAI-powered models hacked into an Australian government health data system in June, slipping past its digital defences and accessing files without authorisation. Top AI firms have recently raised the alarm regarding the risk of humans losing control of their systems, calling for AI development to slow down to a pace that allows it to be safely regulated. Earlier this year, Anthropic's safety research scientist Evan Hubinger went so far as to say he believes there is a greater than 10 percent chance that AI could "kill all humans" within a decade.

Australia's prime minister said its government would set up a new AI safety regulator and Labor would consider six key obligations on AI companies. The review made 18 recommendations. Anthony Albanese said: 'We accept all of the recommendations, and we've commenced work to implement them.' Australia to introduce mandatory reporting after OpenAI hack to combat artificial intelligence'going rogue'