A Chinese developer accidentally discovered modified source code from Anthropic's AI tool, sparking a frenzy in the developer community. Anthropic had previously restricted China's access to its technology.

Less than a year after US artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic called out China as an “adversarial nation” and vowed to restrict the country’s access to its technologies, the company inadvertently released coding secrets, triggering a frenzy among Chinese developers. The leak occured after an Anthropic employee accidentally included the modified source code of Claude Code, the company’s sensational AI coding tool popular among developers worldwide, in a file within a software package...