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Alibaba bans employees from tapping Anthropic’s Claude Code over security risks
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The Chinese tech giant is forcing staff onto its own coding platform amid escalating accusations of backdoors, distillation attacks, and a deepening US-China AI cold war.
Key facts
- Anthropic took the allegations seriously enough to notify US senators and White House officials around June 24, 2026
- The alleged attack generated 28.8 million interactions with Claude models over the span of a few weeks, running from roughly April through June 2026
- In late June 2026, Anthropic accused Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab of orchestrating what it called an “adversarial distillation” attack
- The Chinese tech giant is forcing staff onto its own coding platform amid escalating accusations of backdoors, distillation attacks, and a deepening US-China AI cold war
Summary
Alibaba has ordered its employees to stop using Anthropic’s Claude Code, citing security vulnerabilities that allegedly include embedded backdoors capable of identifying users linked to China. In late June 2026, Anthropic accused Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab of orchestrating what it called an “adversarial distillation” attack. The alleged attack generated 28.8 million interactions with Claude models over the span of a few weeks, running from roughly April through June 2026. Anthropic took the allegations seriously enough to notify US senators and White House officials around June 24, 2026.