Users say Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 AI refuses to help clone or reverse-engineer games

Tom's Hardware reports that Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model, and possibly its Claude Code tool, are blocking attempts to recreate or clone video games. Mashable adds that Claude has quietly started refusing some modding, decompiling and reverse-engineering of game code. Users also say it blocks ordinary troubleshooting that isn't malicious, such as reading a Windows crash dump. An X user shared a rule telling the model not to build "a recreation of a specific existing game", but nobody has confirmed that this is the real text. Anthropic has made no official statement.

Apple's new CEO John Ternus says Apple won't ship AI just for the sake of it

In an interview with Wired's Steven Levy, Apple's new CEO John Ternus defended where Apple stands in AI. He said Apple doesn't "want to ship AI for AI's sake". He said former CEO Tim Cook is "available to help wherever I ask" on policy. Ternus has not yet met President Trump.

OpenAI reportedly lowers the target for its latest funding round

The Wall Street Journal reports, citing sources, that OpenAI has about $11 billion in commitments for its latest round. That is less than half of its first target of $30 billion. The round values OpenAI at $1.25 trillion, below the $1.4 trillion it had aimed for. The Financial Times reports that OpenAI now wants about $20 billion, after some investors cut their commitments during a sell-off in AI stocks. The WSJ says OpenAI expects to raise more in the coming weeks.

Nvidia may guarantee loans for an Anthropic data centre that Nscale is building

The Information reports that Nvidia is in talks to guarantee billions of dollars of debt for AI cloud company Nscale's planned campus in West Virginia. Bloomberg later reported the same. If Nscale stopped paying for construction, Nvidia would temporarily take over the site and help find a buyer and a new tenant. According to Nscale's stock market filing, Anthropic has signed a $44.6 billion contract for the first 460-megawatt building alone. Nscale wants to go public at a value of up to $35 billion. In August it had about 25,000 advanced AI chips running, far short of the nearly 500,000 it plans. The Wall Street Journal separately reports that Nscale, CoreWeave and Nebius have in effect been shut out of the bond market in recent weeks.

Ratings agency S&P cuts Meta's outlook to negative over heavy AI spending

CNBC reports that S&P Global Ratings changed Meta's outlook from stable to negative. It cited high capital spending and negative free cash flow. Meta's shares fell 15% in October, their worst month in four years.

Intel expects PC sales to keep shrinking into 2027 as memory prices rise

Intel reported third-quarter revenue of $16.5 billion, up 21%. Its data centre and AI chip sales rose 78% to $7.3 billion. Its forecast for the fourth quarter was $15 billion to $16 billion, below the roughly $17 billion analysts expected, partly because of a plant shutdown in Israel. Intel's shares fell about 29% on Friday to $65.76. Intel expects PC unit sales to fall about 12% this year and reportedly sees another 10% drop in 2027. It blames pricier memory and storage chips. CFO David Zinsner said the PC slowdown will continue at least through the first half of next year. Separately, Tom's Hardware reports Intel is moving production capacity from consumer chips to server chips because of AI demand.

OpenAI pays $5,000 for a bug that let ChatGPT share links run attackers' code

The Hacker News reports that researchers were paid $5,000 by OpenAI for reporting a bug in ChatGPT. A malicious ChatGPT share link could run an attacker's code in the logged-in session of anyone who opened it. A write-up by the researchers, titled "How we took over ChatGPT accounts", was widely shared on Hacker News.

Anthropic says a tampered Claude Code add-on in Cursor's store wasn't built by Anthropic

Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg says a malicious actor used access to the marketplace of Cursor, a code editor, to publish a tampered copy of the Claude Code extension. Anthropic says it did not build or publish that copy. It says this was not a break-in to Anthropic's systems or employees' laptops, and that it is working with Cursor on the incident.

Crypto exchange Binance says it has covered 90% of the $6.3 billion stolen in its hack

Binance says it has covered 90% of the money stolen in its recent hack, Reuters reports. It set aside more than $6.34 billion of company funds. The Verge reports that hackers stole $6.3 billion from Binance customers, a record crypto heist. Binance's CEO says the remaining 10% is in less liquid tokens and that the company plans to cover it too.

French lawmakers vote for a tax on internet traffic sent by big tech companies

During the 2027 budget debate, France's National Assembly approved an amendment for a tax of €0.055 per gigabyte of internet traffic. Its author, lawmaker Laurent Lhardit, said content providers would pay it, mostly global tech giants that send most of the traffic to French internet users. He estimated it would raise €10 billion. He said it is based on traffic measured where it enters French networks and respects net neutrality.

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