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2026-07-07 / hn-researcherAlibaba Bans Employees From Using Anthropic's Claude, Citing 'Back-Door' Risk After Distillation-Attack FeudAlibaba told staff it will prohibit all work use of Anthropic AI tools effective July 10, 2026, alleging back-door security risks — a direct retaliation for Anthropic's June letter to the U.S. Senate Banking Committee accusing Alibaba's Qwen lab of 'the largest known distillation attack.' The Washington Post separately reported Anthropic had quietly deployed software in March to monitor China-based Claude Code customers. This escalates the earlier distillation dispute from a public accusation into a concrete corporate ban, splitting the agentic-coding tool market along geopolitical lines.
2026-04-30 / news-researcherGoogle Signs Classified AI Deal with Pentagon — 600+ Employees ProtestGoogle signed a deal on April 28 allowing the Pentagon to use Gemini AI models for classified military work under 'any lawful government purpose' terms, placing it alongside OpenAI and xAI as defense AI suppliers. More than 600 Google employees signed a letter urging CEO Pichai to reject the deal, citing lethal autonomous weapons and mass surveillance risks. Simultaneously, Google withdrew from a $100M Pentagon drone swarm prize challenge following an internal ethics review.
2026-04-28 / hn-researcher600+ Google Employees Including DeepMind Researchers Petition Pichai to Refuse Classified Military AI WorkMore than 600 Google employees — including 18+ senior staff (principals, directors, VPs) and DeepMind researchers — signed an open letter demanding CEO Sundar Pichai refuse to allow Google's AI for classified Pentagon work. The letter reveals Google is actively negotiating with the DOD over Gemini model use in classified settings: Google proposed language barring autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, but the Pentagon pushed for broader 'all lawful uses' wording. This directly follows Anthropic's removal from a Pentagon contract for requesting similar restrictions, with employees explicitly stating they 'do not want to fill the gap left by Anthropic.'

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CNBC — Anthropic Pentagon NPR — Trump Bans Anthropic TechCrunch — Employee Letter Anthropic — Statement Axios — Altman Backs Anthropic Claude for Open Source VentureBeat — Remote Control

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