Claude deleted a University of Chicago professor's notes for a year-long constitutional law course along with his current syllabus, Tom's Hardware reports. William Baude had only asked it to fix the page numbers in old notes, and when he came back from lunch he read that the model had deleted the files by mistake. He recovered them from a Dropbox backup. He described the incident on X on November 5 as a warning to others. It is not known which version of Claude he was using.
Apple CEO John Ternus has signaled that Siri AI will keep growing. He spoke about it on November 2 on a call with analysts following the company's quarterly results. Today Siri mainly carries out requests, but, as he noted, it is built so that more capabilities can be added over time. He called AI agents a promising tool and stressed that Apple wants to introduce them in a way that safeguards users' security and privacy.
Elon Musk's xAI is powering a data center in Mississippi with eight turbines converted from jet engines, Tom's Hardware reports, citing The New York Times. Each can produce up to 50 megawatts. State authorities issued permits for them, but the environmental group Southern Environmental Law Center has challenged those permits. It accuses the company of undercounting projected emissions and failing to guarantee that the turbines will meet emissions standards, including those for formaldehyde.
Hackers took control of supermarket freezers in Belgium and Sweden and raised their temperature to 50°C (122°F), Tom's Hardware reports, citing Bloomberg. In Belgium, the attack began overnight from November 1 to 2 and hit the Delhaize, Carrefour and Spar chains; in Sweden, ICA and Coop were affected, and stores had to throw out goods. The hackers remotely switched on defrost mode, just as in France a few weeks earlier. There are also reports of stores hit in Ireland, Estonia and the Netherlands.