China’s Alibaba will ban its employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code starting July 10. numerous reports.
Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. It is reported that the company works to close gaps Allows Chinese users to access Claude.
according to recent Reddit postsome of these loophole closures included a version of the Claude Code that could secretly identify Chinese users. Thariq Shihipar of Anthropic An inscription in X says said it was “a practice we started in March to prevent account abuse by unauthorized sellers and to protect against distillation.” (Distilled is an experiment in which artificial intelligence models are trained on the outputs of other models.)
“The team has since taken stronger mitigation measures and we’ve actually been intending to remove this for some time,” Shihipar said.
Despite this, Alibaba reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software and instructed employees to use the company’s own Coder tool instead.
