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Alibaba reportedly bans employees from applying Claude Code
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China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports.
Key facts
- China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports
- According to a recent Reddit post, some of that loophole-closing involved a version of Claude Code that could secretly identify Chinese users
- Nonetheless, Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software and is instructing employees to use the company’s own Qoder tool instead
- Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models
Summary
Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. According to a recent Reddit post, some of that loophole-closing involved a version of Claude Code that could secretly identify Chinese users. “The team has landed stronger mitigations since then and we’ve been meaning to take this down for a while,” Shihipar said. Nonetheless, Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software and is instructing employees to use the company’s own Qoder tool instead.