Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.
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China's Alibaba is banning its employees from using Anthropic's programming tool Claude Code starting July 10, classifying it as high-risk software and directing them to use the company's own alternative tool instead. Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies from using its models and has been working to close loopholes that allow Chinese users to access Claude, including through an experiment launched in March that could identify Chinese users. The experiment was designed to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation, a practice where AI models are trained on the outputs of other models. Anthropic has since developed stronger security measures and indicated it had been planning to discontinue the identification method for some time.
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