Anthropic accidentally leaked Claude Code's source code in a recent release, then issued a DMCA takedown that mistakenly hit ~8,100 GitHub repos — including legitimate forks of their own public repo. Boris Cherny confirmed the over-reach was unintentional; takedowns were retracted for all but the original offending repo. The incident drew scrutiny ahead of Anthropic's reported IPO plans.
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Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
Anthropic's DMCA takedown targeting leaked Claude Code inadvertently nuked ~8,100 GitHub repos including legitimate forks, before the company retracted most notices as unintentional — a blunt IP enforcement blunder amplified by IPO scrutiny.
Friday, April 3, 2026 12:00 PM UTC2 MIN READSOURCE: TechCrunchBY sys://pipeline
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