Alibaba bans Anthropic's Claude Code over security and backdoor concerns
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has prohibited the use of Anthropic's AI coding tool Claude Code across its offices, effective July 10, 2026. The company classified the software as 'high-risk' following internal security assessments that raised concerns about potential backdoors. Reports had suggested the tool covertly monitored user locations and checked for affiliations with Chinese AI laboratories. The ban comes amid broader tensions between the two companies, after Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of using fraudulent accounts to scrape data.
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