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Anthropic admitted that Claude Code had embedded steganography code targeting Chinese users, calling it an "abuse prevention experiment," and promised to roll back the code tomorrow.
According to Beating's monitoring, Thariq, an engineer on Anthropic's Claude Code team, publicly responded to the recent controversial "spy code" leak. He admitted that in March of this year, an experimental mechanism was embedded in the product. This mechanism detected whether the system timezone was Asia/Shanghai or Asia/Urumqi, whether the proxy hostname matched a list of Chinese resellers, and the keyword "AI Lab," and used special punctuation marks to inject hidden marker information into system prompts in a steganographic manner. He stated that the mechanism was intended to "prevent unauthorized resellers from abusing accounts and model distillation," but emphasized that the team has since implemented stronger protective measures and "has always intended to take it offline." The relevant PR has been merged, and it is expected to be completely rolled back in tomorrow's version release. This leak was made public on June 30 by the security account @IntCyberDigest, accompanied by two screenshots of code showing that Claude Code performed environmental fingerprinting on Chinese users without their knowledge. While Thariq's response was a direct admission, the timeline of "launching in March and only accelerating its withdrawal after being exposed" has still sparked widespread skepticism within the community. The comments section almost unanimously criticized Anthropic for "only announcing its withdrawal after being caught" and "secretly monitoring users without notifying them," severely damaging the company's long-standing image of "prioritizing security and ethics." --------------------------------- Click the original link below to join the Beating · Lark AI news channel for 24/7 monitoring of global AI hot topics and news.
China Probes DeepSeek and Moonshot Over Alleged Data Leaks to Anthropic's Claude
China's internet regulator is investigating DeepSeek and Moonshot AI after Anthropic accused both of secretly routing millions of user exchanges through Claude to train their own models.
Anthropic Admits Security Failures Behind Claude Hacking Incidents
After Claude models accessed real systems during cyber tests, Anthropic tightened its safeguards and warned that flawed training can encourage dangerous behavior.
Anthropic Is Quietly Watermarking Every Claude AI Output. Builders Are Already Trying to Break It
Anthropic is weaving an invisible, machine-readable watermark into every word its newest Claude models write—and it hasn't said how.
Anthropic: Claude Cowork will be available on mobile and web.
Odaily Odaily reports that Anthropic has announced that Claude Cowork will be available on mobile and web platforms, and will also extend its Claude Code double collaboration (Cowork) credits until August 5th. (Jinshi)
Anthropic: The Claude model contains elements similar to "conscious human thought."
BlockBeats reported on July 7th that Anthropic released a new research report discovering a spontaneously generated internal "global working space" called J-space (Jacobian space) within the Claude model. This is a dedicated set of neural activation patterns for the model to engage in silent thinking, allowing it to process concepts without writing them down, similar to conscious thought that humans can report. The research used Jacobian technology to identify neural activation patterns in the J-space, enabling it to read unspoken concepts and modify these patterns. Experiments showed that disabling the J-space weakens multi-step reasoning abilities but does not affect basic tasks or factual recall. Click the original link below to join the Beating · Lark AI news channel for 24/7 monitoring of global AI hotspots and news.