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Anthropic now offers a free vulnerability-finding service for open-source software

Engadget • Fri, 09 Oct 2026

Anthropic is offering open-source projects a new way to check for vulnerabilities with its OSS Scanner.

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Anthropic is offering open-source projects a new way to check for vulnerabilities with its OSS Scanner.

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Anthropic is offering open-source projects a new way to check for vulnerabilities with its OSS Scanner.

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Anthropic's offering to help open-source projects track down security vulnerabilities with a new service called OSS Scanner. It says open-source projects that opt-in will get "thorough, periodic security scans by our strongest models at no cost." That could mean open-source projects get alerted about possible security issues sooner, but the trade-off is that OSS Scanner's […]