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Investing.com -- Shares in Alibaba Group jumped as much as 12.5% in Hong Kong on Wednesday, their biggest single-day gain since September, as investors grew optimistic ahead of the e-commerce giant’s upcoming earnings and rotated capital into Chinese internet stocks that had lagged the broader market rally.
China said several versions of Anthropic’s popular Claude Code “can send sensitive information such as user location and identity to remote servers without the user’s consent due to a built-in monitoring mechanism.”
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Alibaba Cuts Off Anthropic's Claude Code as AI Tensions Heat Up
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Very recently, there have been more than suspicions that China has been stealing US AI secrets to build their own models, inexpensively. Several American companies, led by Anthropic, say it is so. The huge AI firm, valued at about $1 trillion, sent a letter to Senators, which appears to have settled the matter of the ... Proof That China Is Stealing US AI
<body><p>STORY: Chinese authorities have looked into restricting overseas access to the country's top AI models.</p><p>That's what sources have told Reuters.</p><p>They added authorities held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about the issue.</p><p>The talks follow a number of steps by Beijing to keep homegrown AI within the country.</p><p>It also shows China, like the U.S., now treats AI as a critical national asset that needs controls.</p><p>The sources said tech giants like Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai were at the talks.</p><p>Chinese AI models have expanded globally since the launch of DeepSeek's R1 model last year.</p><p>It's partly due to their low costs and growing capabilities.</p><p>Any decision by Beijing to limit access to those products could ripple across AI markets as costs for many businesses would likely rise.</p><p>Two of the sources said the meetings were led by China's Ministry of Commerce and participants talked about putting limits on the most advanced AI models.</p><p>That included both closed-source and more open versions.</p><p>They added officials talked about making any leak or theft of exclusive AI technology an offense under China's national security law.</p><p>A source further said officials raised the possibility of implementing new measures to restrict who can fund domestic AI startups.</p><p>The sources said the scope of the potential restrictions is still being discussed, and may only apply to future models.</p><p>It wasn't immediately clear when or even if they would come into force.</p><p>China's commerce ministry and the National Development and Reform Commission didn't respond to Reuters requests for comment.</p><p>Alibaba, ByteDance and Z.ai also didn't respond to Reuters queries.</p><p>Three sources also told Reuters DeepSeek is developing its own AI chip.</p><p>It's a move which could lower its reliance on Nvidia and Huawei chips.</p><p>They said it would be designed for inference rather than for training new models.</p><p>Inference is the stage of AI computing where a trained model generates responses for users.</p><p>The company didn't respond to a request for comment.</p></body>
Alibaba reportedly banned employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code at work.
By Fanny Potkin SINGAPORE, July 7 (Reuters) - Chinese authorities have held meetings with top tech firms over the past month about potentially restricting overseas access to China's most advanced AI
China's Alibaba will bar employees from Anthropic's Claude Code, citing back-door security risks and mandating Qoder.
A U.S. court temporarily eased Pentagon-related restrictions on Alibaba, and the company tightened AI security.
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Alibaba’s reported ban on Anthropic’s Claude Code looks, on the surface, like an IT decision at a company. It’s probably bigger than that. A Chinese tech giant has warned staff not to use Anthropic’s AI coding helper at work and has directed them toward its own coding platform, Qoder, Reuters ...
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ByteDance, Alibaba and Tencent platforms retreat ahead of new Beijing rules on humanlike AI services.
Employees reportedly directed to use Qoder instead
Alibaba Group Holding and several major Chinese tech platforms are disabling AI companion and chatbot features to comply with new national rules on emotionally influential artificial intelligence. The regulations target humanlike AI tools that could foster emotional dependence, especially among minors, and are prompting adjustments across domestic platforms. The changes affect Alibaba's AI product lineup and may influence how the company shapes future offerings for both Chinese and global...
ByteDance, Alibaba, and Tencent-linked platforms are scaling back AI companion tools ahead of new Beijing rules in mid-July.
Chinese AI models are rapidly improving while remaining far cheaper than U.S. rivals, raising questions about pricing power for companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
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