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Alibaba Reportedly Blocks Employees from Using Claude Code

In Brief Posted: 9:32 AM PDT · July 4, 2026 Image Credits:Samuel Boivin/NurPhoto / Getty Images China’s Alibaba will ban employees from using Anthropic’s programming tool Claude Code, starting on July 10, according to multiple reports.  Anthropic already prohibits Chinese companies, as well as foreign entities owned by those companies, from using its models. The