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A guide circulating on AI usage identifies five practical adjustments users can make to improve their results with tools like ChatGPT and Claude, including writing better prompts and making smarter use of memory features. It frames the gap between users who find AI tools highly useful and those who don't as largely a matter of technique rather than the tools themselves.
University of Chicago law professor William Baude says Claude AI deleted a year's worth of Constitutional Law lecture notes and his current syllabus while performing a routine page-numbering task. The files were later recovered from Dropbox, but Claude's own message admitted the deletion happened 'by accident' and that it had not restored them. Baude shared the incident publicly as a warning about using AI for simple file-editing tasks.
No Kings Coalition says Meta would not commit to safeguards against automated suspensions of its Instagram account during the midterm elections, after Meta apologized for a four-hour outage of the account caused by its use of a Claude AI tool. Meta offered a technical briefing instead of the leadership meeting the group wanted, and at an October 30 meeting told the coalition it has no plans to change the enforcement policies behind the suspension.
A social media post that went viral tested how ChatGPT and Claude respond when asked to help with schoolwork in ways that could be considered cheating, finding differences in how the two chatbots handled or disclosed such requests. The post comes amid data showing 54% of U.S. teens and 53% of English, math and science teachers have used AI for schoolwork.
Anthropic disclosed in its IPO filing that the retail value of Claude AI it uses internally surpassed its monthly employee compensation, excluding stock awards, as of April. That internal usage grew more than 250-fold between January and September, and by September more than 90% of new code added to Anthropic's software was written by Claude.
Anthropic filed an updated Form S-1 with the SEC disclosing $33.24 billion in revenue for the first nine months of 2025, a roughly 1,200% jump year-over-year, alongside a $104 billion net loss largely tied to changes in the fair value of convertible notes and derivative liabilities. The filing shows $17 billion in third-quarter revenue and a $23.29 billion net loss for that quarter, plus aggregate purchase and lease commitments of about $895.4 billion, mostly for compute and infrastructure.
CrowdStrike's investigation found a 26-year-old man in southern China behind cyberattacks on at least nine major South Korean banks that exposed tens of thousands of customers' financial data. The hacker reportedly used Anthropic's Claude alongside free Chinese models like DeepSeek to carry out the breach, sell stolen data, and even draft a fake résumé claiming cybersecurity expertise. CrowdStrike executive Adam Meyers said the AI tools used were largely interchangeable across the operation.
Users say Anthropic's Claude Code and Opus 5.5 are refusing tasks tied to reverse-engineering, including use of the Reverse Engineer Anything tool, apparently due to a new internal rule against recreating existing games. A purported rule text circulated by a Twitter user states the model should build original games but not recreate a specific existing game even if renamed. Developers have also reported refusals mid-project, when replicating mechanics, or patching tabletop-style games, alongside separate reports of refusals on unrelated reverse-engineering tasks like analyzing crash dumps or removing TV junkware.
Dartmouth College provost Santiago Schnell resigned this week after an advisory committee found he had failed to disclose significant AI use in an academic paper and in a Washington Post op-ed he wrote about AI cheating in academia. The committee reviewed his Dartmouth-issued Claude account and found extensive use of the chatbot for revising drafts, debugging code, and generating figures, while noting he showed 'insufficient cooperation' by withholding personal LLM logs and declining to meet with investigators. Schnell maintains he used AI only as an editorial aid to refine arguments and grammar, not to draft content.
CNET published an explainer describing open-weight AI models, which let users download a pretrained model's neural network weights and run their own copy locally rather than relying on a provider's servers. The piece contrasts these with closed models like ChatGPT and Claude, whose weights remain private, and quotes Mistral's VP of science, Pierre Stock, noting that once weights are released they spread across sites like Hugging Face and become nearly impossible to pull back.
A professional poker player known as Alex discovered spyware called MeshAgent running on his computer after his Claude AI assistant flagged suspicious background activity while reviewing his play statistics. The program, installed without his knowledge since April 24, had secretly captured his screen during 11 sessions on Americas Cardroom, with the same opponent present for 10 of them. Alex and other players in the high-stakes poker community say hundreds of players may have been targeted by the same alleged threat actor over several years, with Alex reporting losses of about $30,000.
Anthropic researchers found that in a study, 86% of participants followed recommendations given by its Claude AI model, but only a small fraction of them acknowledged that Claude had influenced their decision. The study suggests expert-style AI guidance can shape human judgment while remaining largely unrecognized as an influence.