Claude’s code: Anthropic leaks source code for AI software engineering tool
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“Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant Claude Code due to 'human error', the company said on Tuesday.”
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— Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a family of large language models (LLMs) named Claude. Anthropic operates as a public…
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— Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Its name has been described both as a tribute to Claude Shannon, who pioneered information theory, and as…
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— Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
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“An internal-use file mistakenly included in a software update pointed to an archive containing nearly 2,000 files and 500,000 lines of code, which were quickly copied to developer platform GitHub.”
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Wikipedia entries about GitHub and GitHub Copilot describe platform features but do not reference specific code leaks, archives, or GitHub activity related to Claude Code.
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— GitHub ( ) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides acce…
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— GitHub Copilot is a code completion and programming AI-assistant developed by GitHub and OpenAI that assists users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, Eclipse and JetBrains integrated develo…
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“A post on X sharing a link to the leaked code had more than 29m views early on Wednesday, and a rewritten version of the source code quickly became GitHub’s fastest-ever downloaded repository.”
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Wikipedia entries about GitHub and its timeline describe general platform functionality but do not mention specific posts, views, or download statistics related to Claude Code.
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— GitHub ( ) is a proprietary developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage, and share their code. It uses Git to provide distributed version control and GitHub itself provides acce…
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— GitHub Copilot is a code completion and programming AI-assistant developed by GitHub and OpenAI that assists users of Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, Neovim, Eclipse and JetBrains integrated develo…
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— This is a timeline of GitHub, a web-based Git or version control repository and Internet hosting service.
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“Anthropic issued copyright takedown requests to try to contain the code’s spread.”
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“Within the code, users spotted blueprints for a Tamagotchi-esque coding assistant and an always-on AI agent, per the Verge.”
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“No sensitive customer data or credentials were involved or exposed.”
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“The exposed code related to the tool’s internal architecture but does not contain confidential data from Claude, the underlying AI model by Anthropic.”
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“Claude Code’s source code was partially known, as the tool had been reverse-engineered by independent developers.”
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“An earlier version of the assistant had its source code exposed in February 2025.”
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“TechCrunch reported last week that paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year, per an Anthropic spokesperson.”
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“Anthropic’s Claude chatbot also received a popularity boost amid the CEO, Dario Amodei’s tussle, with the Pentagon; Claude climbed to the top spot of Apple’s chart of top free apps in the US just more than a month ago.”
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“Amodei had refused to back down on red lines around the use of his company’s technology for mass surveillance and fully autonomous weapons.”
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“This is the second time that Anthropic has had a data leak in recent weeks.”
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“Fortune previously reported on a separate breach and noted that the company was storing thousands of internal files on publicly accessible systems.”
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“That included a draft of a blog post that referred to an upcoming model known as 'Mythos' and 'Capybara'.”
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“The Wall Street Journal reported that the most recent leak included commercially sensitive information, such as tools and instructions for getting its AI models to work as coding agents.”
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“The latest breach comes weeks after the US government designated Anthropic as a supply chain risk; Anthropic is fighting those allegations in court.”
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“Last week, a US district judge granted a temporary injunction to block the designation.”
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