Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating conflict between the two companies over allegations that Alibaba stole Anthropic’s AI capabilities through industrial-scale distillation. “As Claude Code was […] This story continues at The Next Web

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Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

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