July 3, 2026

Alibaba to ban Claude Code over alleged backdoor risk, source says

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The workplace ban, starting July 10, lands weeks after Anthropic accused operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen lab of running the largest known distillation campaign against Claude. Alibaba will bar its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code insid...