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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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5 days · 3 reports · 3 community posts · from Jul 3

Jul 3
- Alibaba reportedly bans Claude Code internally over "backdoor" security concerns, recommending Qoder
Jul 4
- Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Codetechcrunch.com
Jul 6
- China's Alibaba bans Anthropic AI for employees after 'distillation attack' accusationcnbc.com
Jul 8
- China warns about AI risks with Anthropic's Claude Codecnbc.com

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