Published April 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM
TechCrunch
Apr 2, 2026, 6:00 AM
Anthropic took down thousands of GitHub repos trying to yank its leaked source code — a move the company says was an accident
Anthropic executives said it was an accident and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.
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