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Alibaba Bans Anthropic's Claude Code Over Alleged China-Detection Backdoor
Alibaba has banned Anthropic's Claude Code after employees discovered code that allegedly detects Chinese users. The company instructed staff to switch to its own Qoder tool. The move escalates tensions between the Chinese tech giant and the US AI startup.
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The backdoor claim, if true, highlights growing distrust in cross-border AI tool deployments amid geopolitical tech rivalries.
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Alibaba bans Anthropic's Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the firms widens →
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