AI NewsAlibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
12:24 AM IST · July 5, 2026

Chinaâs Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropicâs programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according tomultiplereports. Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. The company has reportedly beenworking to close loopholesthat allow Chinese users to access Claude. According toa recent Reddit post, some of that loophole-closing involved a version of Claude Code that could secretly identify Chinese users. Anthropicâs Thariq Shihiparsaid in a post on Xthat this was âan experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation.â (Distillationis a practice where AI models are trained on the outputs of other models.) âThe team has landed stronger mitigations since then and weâve actually been meaning to take this down for a while,â Shihipar said. Nonetheless, Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software and is instructing employees to use the companyâs own Qoder tool instead.
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