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Anthropic accidentally triggered 8,100 GitHub repository takedowns after a copyright notice targeting leaked Claude Code source code swept up legitimate forks. The company retracted most notices, limiting enforcement to one repository and 96 forks, and GitHub restored access to affected repositories.
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00:00It's Benzinga, bringing Wall Street to Main Street.
00:02Anthropic said it accidentally triggered the takedown of about AI100 GitHub repositories
00:07after issuing a copyright notice to remove leaked source code from its Claude Code command line
00:12application, according to TechCrunch. A software engineer found that Anthropic
00:15accidentally exposed Claude Code source code in a release, and users analyzed and shared it on
00:20GitHub. The takedown also removed legitimate forks of Anthropic's public repository. Anthropic said
00:26the notice affected more repositories than intended due to a shared fork network.
00:30The company retracted most of the notices and limited enforcement to one repository
00:33and 96 forks containing the leaked code. GitHub restored access to affected repositories
00:39after the correction. For all things money, visit Benzinga.com.
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