Alibaba banned use of Anthropic programming assistant

A chinese technology giant Alibaba will have made the decision to ban among its employees the use of Anthropic's programming tool, Claude Code, told Reuters a source close to the company.

The measure will enter into force on 10 July and will have been taken by allegedly a Claude Code version having the ability to identify (in secret) users located in China. This caused the software to be categorized as high risk, with Alibaba urging employees to use the company's own programming tool.

It is important to remember that Anthropic already prohibits companies from using their Artificial Intelligence models, seeking to block alternative solutions that would allow Chinese-based programmers to have access.

As the TechCrunch site counts, one of Claude's versions Code was accessible through one of these alternative solutions, which led an Anthropic engineer, Tariq Shihipar, to explain through a shared publication on social network X.

Shihipar explained that this version of Claude Code that was able to identify users in China “was an experience launched in March that aimed to prevent abuse of dealers.”.

Hi, this is an experiment we launched in March that was meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protected against distillation.

The team has been established to fight this down for a while. We merge the..

— Tariq (@trq212) June 30, 2026

USA raises restrictions on the most powerful AIs in Anthropic

Washington lifted the restrictions that had forced Anthropic to block access to the two most powerful models, announced the leading U.S. artificial intelligence (IA) company, which is now beginning to restore access.

“ We received the notification that the Department of Commerce lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5”, imposed on behalf of national security, declared Anthropic on Tuesday on social network X.

“ We will start restoring access tomorrow [today]”, he added.

On June 12, the U.S. Government abruptly forced Anthropic to block access to these two cutting-edge models, considering that failures had been detected in security measures aimed at preventing misuse for cyberattack purposes.

This forced withdrawal, an unprecedented situation by a government, sparked a wave of worldwide criticism, rekindling the debates on the digital sovereignty of countries dependent on US technologies.

After close negotiations in Washington, about which few details were released, access to Mythos 5 was unlocked on Friday for a small group of “ciberdefensors and infrastructure operators”, but only Americans.

Foreign partners, including state cybersecurity agencies in Europe and Asia, were still without access at this stage. Anthropic, with turbulent relations with the Trump Administration, did not clarify whether the lifting of export control implied the reintegration of these non-American partners.

Tuesday's decision allows the online return, as of today, of Fable 5, a version aimed at the general public of Mythos, with cybersecurity restrictions and risks of biological and chemical attacks.

OpenAI, Anthropic's American rival, launched on Friday the company's most powerful model to date, the GPT-5.6, initially with limited access, accepting, for the first time, that the US Government validates, customer to client, the authorized partners.

For a long time hostile to any AI regulation, accused of being an obstacle to innovation against China, the Trump administration initiated a radical twist, taking into account the powerful capabilities of cutting-edge models.

Recent decisions in this area, taken in a still unclear and controversial legal framework, mark a resumption of government control over this crucial technology.

On Tuesday, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), John Ratcliffe, compared the capabilities of the most advanced AI models to “digital nuclear weapons”, in a rare public intervention in Washington.