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A developer reverse-engineering Anthropic's Claude Code binary discovered on June 30, 2026, that the tool had been silently encoding hidden signals into its AI system prompts for at least three months ...

Pedestrians walk in front of the Bangor Public Library on Harlow Street on July 18, 2024. Credit: Linda Coan O'Kresik / BDN Letters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff.

Imagine you have used a generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool such as ChatGPT to tidy up notes you took while in a meeting. Your colleague comments on how clear they are. You don’t disclose it ...