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Craig Hale

Alibaba is banning its workers from using Claude Code as US v China AI battle heats up

Claude AI.
  • Alibaba bans access to Claude Code, tells employees to use internal Qoder instead
  • Anthropic was tracking markers to indicate which users were in China
  • Anthropic accused Alibaba of major Claude model distillation effort

Alibaba has reportedly banned its employees from using Claude Code internally, beginning July 10 2026, classifying it as a high-risk tool that risks organizational security.

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