Anthropic will stop selling artificial intelligence services to groups majority owned by Chinese entities, in the first such policy shift by an American AI company. The San Francisco-based developer of Claude AI is trying to limit the ability of Beijing to use its technology to benefit China’s military and intelligence services, according to an Anthropic executive who briefed the Financial Times. The policy, which takes effect immediately, will potentially apply to Chinese companies from ByteDance and Tencent to Alibaba. “We are taking action to close a loophole that allows Chinese companies to access frontier AI,” said the executive, who added that the policy would also apply to US adversaries including Russia, Iran and North Korea. The executive said the policy was designed “to align with our broader commitment that transformational AI capabilities advance democratic interests in US leadership in AI”.

Full report : Anthropic says it will stop selling AI services to majority Chinese-owned groups; a source says the policy is partly aimed at Chinese subsidiaries in Singapore.