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Alibaba bans staff from using Claude Code over Anthropic spyware concerns

Alibaba Group Holding has banned its employees from using Anthropic’s Claude Code for work, citing security risks related to the US artificial intelligence firm’s previous use of hidden code to track Chinese users – a move that has sparked widespread backlash in recent days. “As Claude Code was recently discovered to carry back-door risks, after comprehensive evaluation, Claude Code has now been added to a list of high-risk software with security vulnerabilities,” Alibaba said on Thursday in an...

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Alibaba bans staff from using Claude Code over Anthropic spyware concerns

Why it matters: LLMs is tightening safety and control boundaries, which matters for teams evaluating prompt injection risk, browser safety, and how reliably agents follow trusted instructions.

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