Alibaba reportedly bans employees from using Claude Code
Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.
It is a fresh source-backed signal about where AI products, research, and infrastructure are moving.
Alibaba has reportedly classified Claude Code as high-risk software.
It is a fresh source-backed signal about where AI products, research, and infrastructure are moving.
Over the past week, a new fanworks movement has kicked off, with the aim to root out authors using generative AI. But the detection methods being implemented are questionable, and any fanfic writer could be caught in the crossfire. Broad distaste around the use of Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools has long been a […]
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**Peter Thiel**, the Palantir co-founder and prominent Trump backer, claimed at the **Aspen Ideas Festival** on June 30, 2026, that **Anthropic**, which he called a 'woke liberal company,' would use its AI models to 'rig the elections in 2028,' a claim CNN's on-the-record report of the panel called 'unsupported'...
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Tech commentator **John Gruber** argues in a **July 3, 2026** Daring Fireball post that **Felix Rieseberg** - Anthropic's engineering lead for Claude Cowork and Claude Code Desktop, and a co-maintainer of the `Electron` framework - is the reason Claude's Mac app is built with Electron rather than native code.
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**Cat Wu**, who leads product for **Claude Code** and Cowork at **Anthropic**, said **90%** of Anthropic's own codebase is now written by `Claude Code`, according to an O'Reilly Radar writeup of her fireside chat with Addy Osmani at O'Reilly's AI Codecon.
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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.
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