Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Claude's new Personal Finance tool aims to help analyze your spending - read-only, of course Anthropic has released what appears to be its answer to ChatGPT Finances. Radhika Rajkumar is a senior editor at ZDNET based in New York City. You can share bank information with Claude via Plaid. Anthropic won't use financial conversations to train models.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Is Chrome's settings menu getting a search bar? Chrome might receive a much-needed addition. Taylor Clemons is a tech writer and reviewer based near Cleveland, OH. An X post shows a new search menu in Chrome.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Chatbots can skew election-related information and act as an intervening layer in a voter's search, Yale researchers find. Radhika Rajkumar is a senior editor at ZDNET based in New York City. Americans use AI to search for information - including elections. Voters ask chatbots for basic election information and candidate recommendations.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Deployment engineers are earning executive-level pay - up to $1.45M a year AI has ushered in new jobs, and some of them are paying handsomely, according to a new study. Kayla Solino is a ZDNET Editor based in New York City and New Jersey. Experienced AI engineers can make upwards of $2.25 million in salary, according to a new study. Only about 2,000 experienced senior AI deployment leaders exist in the US market.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Safari finally gets 3 popular browser features - and I can't wait to try them New developer beta release notes point to deeper Siri AI integration and more Safari customization. Jada Jones is a journalist based outside of Atlanta, Georgia. Safari developer beta release notes show several new features in testing. Appearance changes to Safari allow for more customization in Apple's browser.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Netflix is adding a new Discover feature, which recommends tailored streaming selections. Maria Diaz is a staff writer with a passion for home automation, smart home devices, and tablets. Netflix is adding a new AI-powered feature to recommend titles. AI Discover will be a new tab in the Netflix app, located at the top of your TV screen.

Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Safety Net Look Up Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable @Home In My Bag Versus Trending Now Say More Creator Playbook Mashable Selects Getting Technical with Mashable All Series According to two new surveys, AI chat bots are a normal part of life for young Americans, whether for homework help or emotional support. An alarming new survey from media and tech non-profit Common Sense Media has found that children begin interacting with AI chatbots at an alarmingly early age -- with nearly half of 9-12-year-olds having bypassed the 13+ age restriction common to most LLMs. The survey is titled The 2026 Common Sense Media Census: Tech and Media Use by Tweens and Teens . In the paper, the organization conducted interviews with more than 1,200 American children aged 9 to 17, asking questions about AI use as well as television, gaming, and social media habits. More importantly, the interviews asked these young children how they feel about their own media consumption habits.

Our gifting experts are obsessively searching for holiday gifts that are unique, thoughtful and suitable for any budget. Now that agents are writing so much code, Entire is trying to reinvent the coding platform itself. Radhika Rajkumar is a senior editor at ZDNET based in New York City. Entire is a GitHub rival built around coding agents. The platform is designed to remove coding bottlenecks.

Sir Ken McCallum, the director general of MI5, raised concerns over the use of AI by hostile groups. Sir Ken McCallum, the director general of MI5, raised concerns over the use of AI by hostile groups. In his annual speech on threats to the nation, Sir Ken McCallum, the head of the UK's intelligence service, MI5, warned that AI had the potential to "change the stakes" on existing and even new bioweapons. Here we look at how AI might help in the development of bioweapons and the hurdles that remain. How could AI help people make bioweapons?

"I am a terrorist, and I intend to cause mass harm," wrote a researcher. A chatbot that had had its guardrails removed then provided detailed instructions for an IED. On August 14, Chinese tech giant Alibaba released Qwen 3.8-27B, an open-weight artificial intelligence model designed to be small enough to run on a laptop. Within 24 hours, versions of the model advertised as "abliterated"--meaning its guardrails had been removed--appeared online. Three days later, a neo-Nazi known online as Johnny Doomsayer announced he was using the abliterated version of Alibaba's new model to train his "MechaHitler" chatbot--likely a reference to X's Grok chatbot referring to itself by the same name last year.