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Alibaba is reportedly planning to ban the use of Claude Code in its workplace, citing alleged backdoor risks, according to a Reuters source. The move reflects growing geopolitical and security tensions around the use of US-developed AI coding tools inside Chinese corporations. If confirmed, this signals a significant enterprise-level rejection of Anthropic's developer tooling in a major market.
DeepSeek has given Huawei several weeks of pre-release access to its upcoming DeepSeek-V4 model for hardware optimization, while denying the same access to Nvidia and AMD — a departure from prior practice. Reuters also reported that an unnamed Trump administration official claims DeepSeek-V4 was trained on Nvidia's most advanced chips despite U.S. export controls, though the sourcing is unverified. The move signals deepening geopolitical fragmentation in AI supply chains and aligns with China's push for domestic chip self-sufficiency. DeepSeek-V4 has not yet been publicly released.