Anthropic's AI Bug Hunter Jolts Cyber Stocks

AI Code Scanner Rattles a $200B Industry Rashmi Ramesh (rashmiramesh_) • February 22, 2026

Security teams have long operated like firefighters handed buckets while the fires keep multiplying. Anthropic launched what it says is a fire hose, sparking a Friday selloff of cybersecurity stocks.

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Claude Code Security, released Friday in a limited research preview, scans codebases for security vulnerabilities and suggests patches. It is currently open to enterprise and team customers, with expedited free access for maintainers of open-source repositories.

"We expect that a significant share of the world’s code will be scanned by AI in the near future, given how effective models have become at finding long-hidden bugs and security issues," the company wrote.

Conventional static analysis tools, which dominate automated security testing, work by matching code against a catalog of known problem patterns. They ...