August 16, 2026

Anthropic cracks down on unauthorized Claude usage by third-party harnesses and rivals

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Anthropic has confirmed the implementation of strict new technical safeguards preventing third-party applications from spoofing its official coding client, Claude Code, in order to access the underlying Claude AI models for more favorably pricing and...