10 October 2026

Anthropic offers free AI vulnerability scans to open-source software projects

First reported

SiliconANGLE and The Verge ran this on , a day before the other 2 sources picked it up.

  • Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, launched OSS Scanner, a free service that checks open-source software for security flaws.
  • Opted-in projects get periodic scans by Anthropic's strongest models, including Claude Mythos, with no human review of the reports.

Reported by The Decoder, Engadget, The Verge, SiliconANGLE