Anthropic Rushes to Limit Leak of Claude Code Source Code (1)

April 1, 2026, 8:10 PM UTC

Anthropic PBC is rushing to address the inadvertent release of internal source code behind Claude Code, an AI-powered assistant that has become a key moneymaker for the company.

Thousands of copies of the code were removed from GitHub in response to copyright takedown requests from Anthropic, according to a notice on the popular developer platform. Anthropic later said the takedown impacted more GitHub repositories than intended and has since been significantly scaled back.

The artificial intelligence startup is also taking steps to tweak its internal systems to prevent a similar leak from happening again, including by improving its automation process. ...

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