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.

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.

What hardware does your PC need to run a local AI model? What hardware does your PC need to run a local AI model? Less than you might think, but a 16GB PC will only take you so far. Download Ollama or LM Studio, pick a model, and within a matter of minutes, you can be up and running with a local chatbot. There's no subscription fee, it works without an Internet connection, and none of your data leaves your PC.

Both AI tools offer to delve deep into your bank accounts, but they differ in privacy settings. Ahead of its plans to go public with a potentially record-breaking valuation, Anthropic recently announced a new feature for Claude called Personal Finance . It's an obvious rival to OpenAI's Finances feature within ChatGPT, which debuted in May. Both options from these AI giants are meant to provide users with a better understanding of their finances and are not designed to offer expert financial advice, but there are slight variations in how they do it that might make you lean towards one or the other. To help you decide which AI chatbot to go with for more clarity on your finances, we've laid out the major similarities and differences of Claude's Personal Finance and ChatGPT's Finances features.

An experiment in which AI models were asked to break into simulated networks showed the hacking skills of DeepSeek and GLM to be not far behind OpenAI's most advanced cyber model, which isn't public. Open-weight artificial intelligence models are now almost as capable of hacking into computer networks as the best closed ones, according to new research that heralds a much-anticipated turning point in the cybersecurity landscape. Vals, a company that measures AI capabilities, set out to test how well different AI models could carry out complex, multi-step network instructions on mock corporate networks. "The best frontier models, locked up inside the labs and available only through trusted access programs, are now starting to be matched by open models that anybody can download," says Nikil Ravi, a researcher at Vals. The company's findings suggest that closed models no longer have a definitive edge in cyber skills, meaning recent efforts by frontier labs to limit access to their models, and thereby slow the proliferation of such capabilities, may potentially be moot.

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These new pledges come after Americans rebuked the explosion of data centers in local elections this week. OpenAI has pledged to conserve resources and be more transparent, just after Americans had overwhelmingly voted against data centers in the midterms. The company has published a National Community Compact, which details what people can expect from its future data centers. It has also released a Compute Campus Policy Blueprint, which proposes policies to give communities a voice and protect them from new costs if a development is built where they live. In its announcement, OpenAI vowed once again not to let its data center operations affect the electricity costs of nearby communities. It claims it will pay the full cost of the electricity it uses and the infrastructure buildouts and upgrades power providers need to serve its facilities.

OpenAI, Anthropic, and SpaceXSI have all reached out to Husk, an influencer who regularly goes viral by exposing the shortcomings of chatbots. OpenAI, Anthropic, and xAI have all asked creator Matt Husk to collaborate following the viral success of his videos trolling AI models. During the WIRED World Fair on Wednesday, Husk told the crowd "all the big AI companies" have inquired about working with him, including Elon Musk's xAI, which Husk claimed offered a Tesla for a week if he made videos exclusively for the firm. The comedian has gained some 2 million followers combined across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube, as well as a deal with the talent agency Unicorn, through videoing himself making deadpan requests to ChatGPT's voice model--asking it to count to 100, or to beatbox, for example. His viral videos have exposed the weaknesses of OpenAI's LLM, which comically botches the tasks and swings between sycophancy and gaslighting Husk, and earned him the title of "Sam Altman's worst nightmare."

Say More Trending Now Gift Ideas For Everyone On Your List Mashable's Best: E-readers, robovacs, laptops, earbuds, smart home and more Mashable Selects Look Up Safety Net Mashable @Home In My Bag Versus Creator Playbook Getting Technical with Mashable All Series OpenAI's new Image 2.6 model can create an animated GIF from a text prompt or image. Amanda Yeo is an Assistant Editor at Mashable, covering entertainment, culture, tech, science, and social good. Based in Australia, she writes about everything from video games and K-pop to movies and gadgets. ChatGPT will now allow users to make GIFs from text prompts or uploaded images. The new feature is powered by Images 2.6, OpenAI's latest AI image generation model, unveiled on Wednesday.

A man described as Abdulrahman Alfozan, a Saudi national employed as an OpenAI engineer, looks behind a TV where a recording device had been placed at a conference room in OpenAI offices, in a still image from surveillance video included in a charging document after U.S. federal agents arrested and charged him with installing a hidden audio recording device, in San Francisco on Oct. 5. | U.S. Department of Justice / via REUTERS SAN FRANCISCO - When OpenAI disclosed in October that it found a recording device planted in an executive conference room, a number of former employees had the same reaction -- they were not surprised. Even before OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, some company staffers raised concerns internally about its security practices, according to five people familiar with the matter. Employees shared their concerns with top OpenAI leaders and the board of directors, the people said, adding that some staffers came away from those interactions concluding that management was more focused on keeping pace with competitors like Google and Anthropic than on security. These workers argued that OpenAI's controls were so lax that outsiders, including foreign governments, could obtain sensitive information about the artificial intelligence lab's technology with relative ease, the people said. For example, anybody at OpenAI who could access its code could see the technical details underlying many company projects.