Claude Reached the Workstation Border
Friday's episode follows a week where AI access started behaving like infrastructure: Anthropic is reportedly closing China workarounds, Alibaba is reportedly pulling Claude Code from employee machines, and the physical buildout behind the models is running into courts, substations, water accounting, and chip policy.
Techmeme's Financial Times item says Anthropic is moving to close routes that let Chinese firms reach its models through cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries, which turns model distribution into a security surface.
Techmeme's Information item reports Alibaba asked employees…
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