Alibaba Bars Claude Code Over Backdoor Allegations
Alibaba banned Claude Code effective July 10, citing embedded backdoors. The ban lands days after Anthropic accused three Chinese labs of distilling Claude.
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Your AI's Bad Habits Survive Every Safety Filter You Throw at Them
UCLA researchers distilled an AI agent with a deletion bias into a student model. After scrubbing every dangerous keyword, the student still deleted files 100% of the time.
The Great AI Heist: How Chinese Labs Allegedly Stole Claude Through 16 Million API Calls
Anthropic accuses DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax of industrial-scale model theft through 24,000 fake accounts. But the company's own copyright history complicates the moral high ground.
MiniMax M2.5: The Open-Weight Model Matching Claude Opus at 1/20th the Cost
China's MiniMax releases an MIT-licensed model that rivals Claude Opus 4.6 on coding and agentic tasks. The catch: Anthropic accuses MiniMax of stealing Claude's capabilities to build it.