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Anthropic leaks files, again
🚨 Our Report
Anthropic has confirmed that an employee accidentally leaked the source code for Claude Code, its popular AI coding assistant, via a map file in its npm registry. The leak exposed 1,900 TypeScript files containing over 512,000 lines of code, which were quickly mirrored to GitHub and forked tens of thousands of times.
🔓 Key Points
Anthropic said the leak was caused by human error during release packaging, not a security breach, and confirmed that no customer data or credentials were exposed.
It's Anthropic's second security slipup in days. Last week, Fortune reported the company had stored thousands of internal files on a publicly accessible system, including a draft blog about an unreleased model called Mythos.
Security experts warn that attackers can now study exactly how data flows through Claude Code's context management pipeline, potentially crafting payloads designed to persist across long sessions.
🔐 Relevance
The company is currently fighting a U.S. government "supply chain risk" designation in court, a label it warns could cost major enterprise revenue. For buyers weighing AI vendor stability, back-to-back security lapses raise questions about whether rapid product releases are outpacing Anthropic's internal safeguards.
THE BUSINESS BRIEFING: FINANCE (powered by Upscaile)
Kingfisher GBS (global home improvement retailer, 74,000 employees) was drowning in manual invoice entry—200 AP staff typing 40,000 invoices monthly into SAP, burning 5 minutes per invoice across multiple languages and formats. They deployed Rossum to auto-extract invoice data and pipe it directly into SAP via RPA.
Tool used: Rossum -- AI-powered invoice data capture with SAP integration.
Result: 60% of invoices now flow touchless into SAP. Invoice indexing time dropped from 5 minutes to 25 seconds—a 90% reduction. 14 FTEs reallocated from data entry to exception management.
The lesson: Automation only scales when you match AI queues to real workflow splits. Kingfisher built 12 processing queues covering 6 countries and 2 invoice types each—forcing clean routing rules before extraction even starts.
Steal this: Map your invoice types by country, vendor class, and approval path this week. Build separate processing queues for each variation. Generic "all invoices" pipelines fail because they can't handle structural differences.
TOGETHER WITH AI CONSULTANCY PROJECT
Case Study: Dan’s 1-Year Transformation To 6-Figure AI Consultant
Dan had no tech background and no business experience – just a love for AI and a hunch it could become something more. Through the AI Consultancy Project, he landed his first clients, found a niche, and built a real business. This case study breaks down his journey – the early stumbles, the system that worked, and how he made the leap.
THE POLICY CORNER
Governor Jared Polis released a draft bill that would strip out the Colorado AI Act's core requirements and replace them with basic disclosure, recordkeeping, and notice obligations for "automated decision-making technology." The proposal abandons developer and deployer duties of care, impact assessments, risk management, and incident reporting. Instead, it narrows scope to transparency rules for consumer-facing entities — closer to California's CCPA approach than enforceable liability.
Deadline: Still in draft. If passed, takes effect June 30, 2026.
Your move: If you use AI tools in customer-facing or high-stakes decisions, watch how Colorado's rewrite plays out. Other states are drafting similar laws, and the shift from liability-based rules to disclosure-only requirements may set a national template. Review your vendor contracts now for indemnification gaps the new approach could expose.
AI News
🧠 Google DeepMind maps six "traps" that hijack autonomous AI agents: New framework identifies attacks targeting perception, reasoning, memory, and action, with documented proof-of-concept exploits for each category. FULL STORY
💰 OpenAI closes $122B funding round, now valued at $852B: Amazon ($50B), Nvidia ($30B), and SoftBank ($30B) lead the round; vendor now generates $2.6B in monthly revenue and expects 1B weekly active users soon. FULL STORY
🔍 Meta's structured prompting technique boosts code review accuracy to 93%: "Semi-formal reasoning" forces AI agents to trace concrete execution paths and explicitly state premises before conclusions, reducing hallucinations in bug detection and patch verification. FULL STORY
🗺️ Google expands Search Live to 200+ countries, upgrades Maps with Gemini: Ask Maps now handles conversational queries and books reservations on the go; Canvas in AI Mode adds creative writing and coding support across the U.S. FULL STORY
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The Money: Enterprise AI governance becomes investable
Two of this week's largest AI rounds bypassed foundation models entirely. Instead, capital flowed to infrastructure that helps enterprises deploy, secure, and operate AI at scale. As autonomous agents move from demos to production, investors are backing the picks-and-shovels layer.
Deals to know:
9fin (Series C, $170M) -- AI-native platform for debt capital markets, combining proprietary data with credit workflows. Hit $1.3B valuation. Investors: HarbourVest, CPP Investments, Spark Capital
Sycamore (Seed, $65M) -- Agent operating system for enterprise AI with built-in governance and trust controls. Fortune 500 deployments underway. Investors: Coatue, Lightspeed, 8VC
Signal: Smart money says the model race is maturing. The next wave of value creation sits in the infrastructure that makes AI auditable, secure, and enterprise-ready.
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