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Happy April 1st — but these stories are no joke. Here’s your evening roundup of what happened in AI today.
🔓 Anthropic Accidentally Leaks Claude Code’s Entire Source
In what’s becoming an embarrassing pattern, Anthropic shipped a 60MB source-map file inside Claude Code’s npm package — exposing its full TypeScript source to the world. Security researcher Chaofan Shou spotted it, and the internet did what the internet does: took it apart. Highlights from the leak include “frustration regexes,” fake tool definitions, and an “undercover mode.” This comes just days after the Mythos model leak. Not a great week for Anthropic’s security team.
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Making it worse: VentureBeat reports that between 00:21 and 03:29 UTC on March 31, a malicious axios package containing a RAT was briefly available via npm. If you updated Claude Code in that window, check your systems.
🚀 NASA’s Perseverance Completes First AI-Planned Drive on Mars
AI just drove on another planet. NASA’s Perseverance rover completed its first fully AI-planned navigation sequence on Mars, using digital twins and over 500,000 telemetry checks before sending commands. Anthropic even flagged this on their news page. It’s a milestone moment: AI isn’t just writing your emails anymore — it’s plotting routes through Martian craters.
📊 Poll: Americans Use AI More Than Ever — But Still Don’t Trust It
A new Quinnipiac University poll shows 51% of Americans have now used AI for research — up 14 points from April 2025. But the trust numbers? Still in the basement. People are using it, benefiting from it, and simultaneously convinced it’s going to ruin everything. The classic human relationship with technology, basically.
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🔥 Hot Take from Reddit
The #QuitGPT movement that started on Reddit in February is still simmering. Users upset about OpenAI’s coziness with the Trump administration — including a $25M Super PAC donation from president Greg Brockman — are actively migrating to Claude, Gemini, and open-source alternatives. Whether it meaningfully dents OpenAI’s numbers remains to be seen, but the sentiment shift is real and accelerating.
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