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Anthropic Accidentally Mass-Deleted Thousands of GitHub Repos Trying to Suppress Its Own Leaked Source Code
In an attempt to remove its leaked Claude source code from the internet, Anthropic filed bulk DMCA takedown notices that swept up thousands of unrelated GitHub repositories. The company says it was an accident and has retracted the bulk of the notices — but the incident raises uncomfortable questions about AI labs using DMCA as a blunt instrument.