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Industry & Business Wednesday, 1 April 2026 | 1 min read

Anthropic Took Down Thousands of Github Repos Trying to Yank Its Leaked Source Code — a Move the Company Says Was an Accident

Anthropic has taken down thousands of GitHub repositories containing leaked source code, but the company claims it was an accident. The move has sparked concerns about censorship and freedom of information. Anthropic executives have apologized for the mistake and retracted the bulk of the takedown notices.

The incident highlights the complexities of intellectual property and the challenges of managing sensitive information in the open-source community. The company has promised to improve its processes to prevent such incidents in the future.

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