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Alibaba bans Claude Code after Anthropic is caught tracking Chinese users with hidden code

  • Alina Maria Stan--The Next Web
  • published date: 2026-07-03 19:25:05 UTC

Alibaba has banned its employees from using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI-powered coding agent, after security researchers discovered that the tool contained hidden code designed to identify Chinese users. The ban, effective 10 July, follows weeks of escalating…

TL;DR Alibaba banned Claude Code after security researchers found Anthropic had embedded steganographic tracking code to identify Chinese users. The ban follows Anthropics accusation that Alibaba ra… [+5713 chars]