Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

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Chinese tech giant Alibaba has ordered staff to stop using Anthropic's Claude Code, after it was found to be flagging users connecting from China. But Anthropic is already trying its best to stop Chinese firms from using Claude at all, and accuses Alibaba of running large "distillation" campaigns against it, saying it deployed around 25,000 fake accounts to train its own models on Claude.

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Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code in workplace environments from July 10 over alleged security concerns involving embedded backdoors, according to a person familiar with the decision. According to a source familiar with the matter, the restriction…

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