Claude Code leak suggests Anthropic is working on a 'Proactive' mode for its coding tool, The AI Doc's director was scared by AI, so he made a movie about it, and What’s going on with Donut Lab? episode artwork

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Claude Code leak suggests Anthropic is working on a 'Proactive' mode for its coding tool, The AI Doc's director was scared by AI, so he made a movie about it, and What’s going on with Donut Lab?

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-After the company released Claude Code's 2.1.88 update on Tuesday, users found it contained a file that exposed the app's source code. Before Anthropic took action to plug the leak, the codebase was uploaded to a public GitHub repository, where it was subsequently copied more than 50,000 times. -Director Daniel Roher said the goal of his project to be a sort of "first date" with AI, a way to hear about its potential benefits from AI boosters, while also taking in the many negatives brought up by critics. -Even to a non-expert, there’s clearly a gap between what Donut promised and what its tests are showing. There is a whole lot more to this article written by Engadget Senior Editor Daniel Cooper with intensive investigation. You can check it out here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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