Anthropic is moving to shut loopholes that have allowed Chinese companies to circumvent the AI company’s stringent restrictions on unauthorised use in the country. People familiar with the matter said that Chinese companies including Ant Financial have accessed Anthropic’s AI tools such as Claude Code through workarounds that include cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries. The people said that Ant had provided employees with corporate Claude accounts that were accessed through the company’s intranet, which is connected to its Singapore-based entity. ByteDance does not facilitate access to Claude but this year introduced a reimbursement scheme allowing engineers to put personal subscriptions for the platform on their expenses, according to five employees of the TikTok owner. The engineers access those subscriptions using VPNs.

Full report : Anthropic moves to close loopholes that let Chinese companies like Ant use its models via workarounds such as cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries.