Chinese tech giant Alibaba has banned employees from using Anthropic’s Claude ‌Code at work after the tool drew scrutiny for features that can help identify China-linked users, according to a person familiar with the order. The ban is part of a deepening spat between the two companies after Anthropic accused Alibaba of illicitly extracting ​its Claude AI model capabilities — a dispute that highlights the frantic race between the U.S. and ​China to take the lead in artificial intelligence. Claude Code is Anthropic’s AI coding assistant ⁠for software developers. It has become popular among programmers in China despite Anthropic’s restrictions on access by users ​and entities in China. The person, who was not authorised to speak to media and declined to be identified, ​said that Alibaba employees were being told to use the company’s own coding platform Qoder. Alibaba and Anthropic did not immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. Alibaba has not publicly commented to date on Anthropic’s accusations.

Full report : Alibaba banned Claude Code internally and asked its employees to remove all Claude models from their work computers due to Anthropic security concerns.