accidentally

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Anthropic accidentally released part of the internal source code for its AI-powered coding assistant Claude Code due to "human error," the company said Tuesday.

From Barron's • Apr. 1, 2026

The original golden touch belonged to King Midas, who loved it until he accidentally killed his daughter by turning her into a gold statue.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 1, 2026

A supermarket in Orkney has been giving away bananas after accidentally ordering an estimated 38,000 of them - almost double the entire population of the islands.

From BBC • Mar. 30, 2026

In the past, I’ve accidentally given incorrect public transit information when writing about how to get to a museum, or reported the wrong number of poles in the product description for a tent.

From Slate • Mar. 28, 2026

It was one of the biggest rules of Glitching: you could not, under any circumstances, accidentally become a Butterfly.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin