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Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code

Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code starting July 10, classifying it as high-risk software. Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar confirmed an experiment that secretly identified Chinese users, and Alibaba recommends its own Qoder tool instead.
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Alibaba is reportedly banning employees from using Claude Code at work starting July 10. The...x.com
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Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code in workplace environments from July 10, citing alleged embedded "backdoor" risks raised after recent binary reverse-engineering.reddit.com