Alibaba to Ban Claude Code Over 'Backdoor Risks' — A Week After Anthropic Caught It Stealing Claude's Capabilities

Alibaba will ban its employees from using Anthropic Claude Code in the workplace, citing alleged backdoor security risks, according to a Reuters report published Friday. The timing looks less like genuine security concern and more like the next act in an escalating Sino-American AI trust crisis — coming just days after Anthropic disclosed Alibaba ran 28.8M API queries to distill Claude.

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