Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the f

The episode slots into a U.S.-China AI relationship that has spent 2026 swinging in both directions at once. Washington had earlier placed export restrictions on AI chips to China. It loosened hardware controls this year…

Alibaba bans Anthropic’s Claude Code after an alleged hidden China-detection backdoor is uncovered — employees told to switch to Qoder as the rift between the f

The episode slots into a U.S.-China AI relationship that has spent 2026 swinging in both directions at once. Washington had earlier placed export restrictions on AI chips to China. It loosened hardware controls this year…