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Anthropic launched automated security review capabilities for its Claude Code platform on Wednesday, introducing tools that can scan code for vulnerabilities and suggest fixes as artificial intelligence dramatically accelerates software development across the industry.
The new features arrive as companies increasingly rely on AI to write code faster than ever before, raising critical questions about whether security practices can keep pace with the velocity of AI-assisted development. Anthropic’s solution embeds security analysis directly into developers’ workflows through a simple terminal command and automated GitHub reviews.
“People love Claude Code, they love using models to write code, and these models are already extremely good and getting better,” said Logan Graham, a member of Anthropic’s frontier red team who led development of the security features, in an interview with VentureBeat. “It seems really possible that in the next couple of years, we are going to 10x, 100x, 1000x the amount of code that gets written in the world. The only way to keep up is by using models themselves to figure out how to make it secure.”
The announcement comes just one day after Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1, an upgraded version of its most powerful AI model that shows significant improvements in coding tasks. The timing underscores an intensifying competition between AI companies, with OpenAI expected to announce GPT-5 imminently and Meta aggressively poaching talent with reported $100 million signing bonuses.
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