The AI Daily Brief · Monday, July 6, 2026
Alibaba has banned its employees from using Anthropic's Claude model, citing potential security risks and classifying its code as having vulnerabilities. This action follows Anthropic's accusations that Alibaba engaged in large-scale model distillation attacks using thousands of fraudulent accounts.
“Alibaba has banned employees from using Claude over potential security risks.”
“In a report published in February, Anthropic accused the major Chinese AI labs of distilling their models with a level of specificity that implied that Anthropic were tracking the interactions.”
“Claude code was recently discovered to carry back door risks.”