Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system

Anthropic is removing a hidden monitoring feature from its programming tool, Claude Code, after it sparked outrage on social media.

Anthropic faces allegations of embedding "spyware-like" code in its Claude AI model. Restoration of Claude Fable 5 by July 1 at 93.8% YES.

A reverse-engineer found that Claude Code secretly changes tiny characters in the date it sends the model - a covert marker aimed at spotting resellers and copycats.

Oh, yeah, we've been meaning to disable our secret steganography system

Firm also known as Z.ai rolls out promotions to lure developers as US rival Anthropic responds to claim it covertly tracked Chinese users.