WIRE — Alibaba has banned Anthropic's Claude Code from its offices starting July 10, 2026, citing 'high-risk software' and potential backdoors. Internal assessments flagged concerns after reports suggested the tool covertly checked user locations and affiliations with Chinese AI labs. This move escalates tensions, following Anthropic's accusation of Alibaba's Qwen lab using fraudulent accounts for data scraping.
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