Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool: Report
The move follows allegations that the coding tool hid a backdoor tied to Chinese networks and cloud regions, Reuters reported.
- Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code in company workspaces starting July 10 due to allegations of hidden detection targeting Chinese users.
- A Reddit user claimed to have found code obfuscation related to user detection in Claude Code during the restoration of remote-control features.
- Version 2.1.91 of Claude Code checked for Chinese timezones or proxies linked to Chinese tech firms such as Alibaba, Baidu, and ByteDance, modifying system prompts subtly.
- Anthropic stated the mechanism was to prevent account selling and model distillation, promised to remove it, and accused Alibaba's Qwen AI lab of using 25,000 fake accounts to access Claude's capabilities.
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Alibaba Bans Employees From Using Claude
Alibaba Group has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code, and asked them to remove all Claude models from their work computers, according to two employees with knowledge of the matter. Alibaba told some employees Friday that the ban is due to security concerns about Anthropic, after a recent controversy over Claude Code’s hidden code that was capable of tracking whether the user
Alibaba to ban employees from using Anthropic's coding tool, source says
Chinese tech giant Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code at work after the tool drew scrutiny for features that can help identify China-linked users, according to a person familiar with the order.
Alibaba Orders Employees to Remove All Anthropic Products, Ban Effective July 10
Alibaba has internally ordered all employees to uninstall Anthropic products, including the Claude Sonnet, Opus, and Fable model series as well as the Claude Code agent tool, with the ban taking effect on July 10, sources close to the matter told Zhidongxi on July 3.Since early this year, Alibaba had been encouraging employees to adopt AI technology by offering free internal model quotas and generous reimbursement policies for external model usa…
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