Apr 8, 2026
Rival AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google have begun collaborating to prevent Chinese competitors from extracting results from cutting-edge U.S. AI models, marking an unprecedented cooperation among typically competing firms.
Anthropic inadvertently released internal source code for its Claude AI coding assistant, raising security concerns about the company's internal controls. The leak comes as Anthropic faces scrutiny over its security practices.
Anthropic issued mass DMCA takedown notices after accidentally exposing parts of Claude Code's internal source code in a recent release, inadvertently removing thousands of unrelated GitHub projects. The company has since retracted the bulk of the notices and called it an accident.
Mercor confirmed a security incident after an extortion hacking crew claimed to have stolen data from the company's systems, tied to a compromise of the open-source LiteLLM project that affected multiple companies.