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Alibaba and the Claude ban rumor: what is verified, and what developers should actually do
A Chinese report says Alibaba has told employees to uninstall Claude and Claude Code. The internal ban itself is not publicly confirmed, but Anthropic's China restrictions, distillation accusations, Claude Code marker controversy, and the U.S. 1260H list all point to the same lesson: AI coding tools are now supply-chain risk, not just productivity software.
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Claude got cheaper. Anthropic should still be nervous.
Sonnet 5 is not just a friendly price cut. It is Anthropic's answer to developer cost anxiety, account-enforcement frustration, and the pressure to make agents run at scale. Claude is still powerful, but platform trust is becoming the real bottleneck.
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