Anthropic says that it plans to remove hidden codes it added to Claude Code several months ago to catch other AI companies that are trying to steal from its models. Thariq Shihipar, an engineer at Anthropic who works on the Claude Code tea ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1723#8026)
Anthropic is removing its covert code for catching Chinese competitors
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