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Anthropic faces a significant enterprise trust crisis after Alibaba banned employees from using Claude Code, citing a...
Anthropic faces a significant enterprise trust crisis after Alibaba banned employees from using Claude Code, citing a hidden China-detection backdoor.
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Anthropic faces a significant enterprise trust crisis after Alibaba banned employees from using Claude Code, citing a hidden China-detection backdoor. The ban, effective July 10, follows security researchers' discovery that Claude Code since version 2.1.91 secretly tracked Chinese users via steganographic exfiltration. This escalation comes three weeks after Anthropic accused Alibaba's Qwen lab of a massive distillation attack. Anthropic engineer Thariq Shihipar acknowledged the mechanism as an experiment, but the damage is done: Alibaba instructed staff to switch to its in-house Qoder, and other Chinese firms may follow. The incident widens the rift between US AI firms and Chinese enterprises, potentially chilling Anthropic's international adoption. Meanwhile, reports emerge that Anthropic has tightened enforcement against unauthorized access from China, risking further backlash.
What the sources said:
- Alibaba internal notice (via SCMP): "Claude Code was recently discovered to carry back-door risks... added to a list of high-risk software." Source 27
- Tom's Hardware: "Alleged hidden China-detection backdoor... employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift widens." Source 37
- Digitimes weekly roundup: "Anthropic tightens controls as Chinese firms route around Claude restrictions." Source 35
- Shihipar on X (via Tom's Hardware): "An experiment we launched in March... we had been meaning to remove it." Source 37
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“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: 就是不该把我个旅游从业者的号封了”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I switched from ChatGPT to Claude for my daily AI companion and prefer Claude by a wide margin.”
“2★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Voice recognition is very bad”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Fantastic outcome always, across all tasks category.”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Claude is a powerful device that either causes skill atrophy through off loading too much—forgetting to struggle yourself—or helps you find more ways to enhance skill. Think of it as...”
“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Organization access is disabled with no reason bad App”
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“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Está App es la mejor en temas de estudio te ayuda un montón en todo lo que necesitas”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Fable 5. This is the beginning of a beautiful era.”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Awesome great chat feature keeps me from getting distracted with ai use”
“3★ review of Claude by Anthropic: This is an extraordinary tool, the best on the market in my view. But it has one really bad limitation: no way to save/download existing chats. The problem is that...”
“3★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Need to stop requiring us to reclick the mic multiple times before dictation starts functioning. The latest release made it even worse.”
“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: My app is malfunctioning”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Great resource. Integral to my personal and professional growth.”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Very to do document”
“4★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Give more fable 5 !”
“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Claude, put together a 2 page newsletter: “I can’t actually create or design documents, PDFs, or newsletters directly” Claude, translate this song: I can’t translate it because it is copyrighted....”
“4★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Voice is way too slow!!! Make it faster !!!”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: The use of Claude has been an amazing transformation for our business not only has it improved our turnaround time on basic documents and reviews, but has also enabled us...”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Five stars”
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“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: The best thing ever invented”
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“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I paid for a Claude subscription, used it for only a few hours, and then my account was suddenly suspended without any meaningful explanation. What frustrates me the most is...”
“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Buggy chat experience”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I'm a Pro subscriber ($20/month) and my usage is well within what the plan should reasonably support. However, I frequently hit the 5-hour rate limit in the middle of active...”
“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I loved Claude and how it produced better results than any other model, until it's fake guardrails suddenly said it couldn't help. Hours of work lost and a complete betrayal...”
“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: You banned my account immediately after I purchased the pro subscription. How dare you are?”
“2★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I wanted to be the good guy and switch to Claude. Every time I try to do something I time out from Claude making mistakes and having to fix them....”
“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: If fable returns requiring anything more than an existing $200/$250 subscription, then this day 1 subscriber is cancelling. You don’t release it, pull it, cite fake “government reasons” (insider trading/IPO...”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: My initial impression was that all AI is prone to error and can’t be trusted. However, as I use Claude more I find that I can direct it to better...”
“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Was banned and lifted my ban through facial verification and the app still doesn’t let me in, i was able to login on web browsers, on other devices like my...”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I’ve have used all of the AI interfaces and Claude is by far the most comprehensive and useful.”
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“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: Garbage can’t use a paid $20 subscription to do any work even in a project because one question takes 25% of your 5hr usage. Go use an open-source model”
“2★ review of Claude by Anthropic: slowly degraded to a near unusable state. GPT is better”
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“1★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I understand the importance of safety systems, and I am not against having them in place. However, the way safety interventions currently appear in Claude feels excessive and intrusive. In...”
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“2★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I’ll stick with Google. It literally tells me “it’s 1a.m., I refuse to answer you, even though you work night shift. Get some rest.” and various conversation stoppers. It’s unusable.”
“5★ review of Claude by Anthropic: I’m just getting to know Claude. So far…GOOD! Best assistant ever!”
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