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Alibaba is banning employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code over alleged backdoor risks Alibaba has told employees to stop using Anthropic's Claude Code because of security concerns. Hidden code in the software could track if a user was in China or linked to a Chinese AI lab, according to Reuters . Starting July 10, employees must use Alibaba's own coding platform, Qoder. "As Claude Code was recently discovered to carry back-door risks, after comprehensive evaluation, Claude Code has now been added to a list of high-risk software with security vulnerabilities," Alibaba said in an internal notice seen by the South China Morning Post . The move came after security researchers shared findings on Reddit and GitHub, revealing that a version of Claude Code had been built to examine users' local environments — things like timezone settings and proxy configurations — and quietly embed identifying markers in the data transmit...

100 authors demand $75M from Anthropic over 'stolen' work to train its systems: lawsuit More than 100 fed-up authors are demanding over $75 million from San Francisco-based AI behemoth Anthropic, which they claim stole their books to train its systems. The lawsuit filed in Northern California District Court on June 17 accused Anthropic, which partners with major companies like Microsoft and Amazon, brazenly used more than 500 pirated books — including Oprah-endorsed New York Times bestseller "Get Good with Money" by Tiffany Aliche and the international bestseller "Like Water for Chocolate" by Mexican author Laura Esquivel — to feed its AI. The company allegedly infringed the copyright of at least 100 authors, including Atari co-founder Nolan Bushnell, Academy Award-nominated JFK screenwriter Zachary Sklar and Newbery Medal winner Donna Barba Higuera. The scorned writers are demanding $150,000 per pirated pie...

AI search could kill the web without new quality signals and revenue models AI answers are killing content publishers, as they cause readers to stay on Google or on the chatbot of their choice, rather than navigating to dedicated websites. The end result could be catastrophic for the open web. Alex Chan, assistant professor at Harvard Business School, floats that prediction based on an economic model he describes in a paper titled "AI and the collapse of the www." A paper from Saharsh Agarwal, assistant professor at the Indian School of Business, and Ananya Sen, associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University entitled "The Impact of Google AI Overviews on Publisher Traffic and User Experience: Evidence from a Field Experiment," shows that Google AI Overviews "reduce outbound organic clicks by 39.8 percent and increase zero-click searches by 34.5 percent, without affecting sponsored clicks or overall search frequency....

Godot says bye bye AI, bans vibe-coded contributions 'We can't trust heavy users of AI to understand their code enough to fix it,' say maintainers who previously called the flood of vibe-coded pull requests 'demoralizing' Vibe coders apparently don't understand what their AI servants write - at least that's what the team behind open-source game engine Godot seems to be implying with a new policy that cracks down on AI-generated contributions. The Godot team announced on Tuesday that they were in the process of rewriting their contribution policy to prohibit almost all use of AI from contributors, citing an overwhelming number of pull requests that have poured in, many of which appear to be AI-generated. Nor, the maintainers suggested, can many heavy AI users be relied on to respond meaningfully to review feedback. "AI cannot take responsibility, and we can't trust heavy users of AI to understand th...

Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs At the event " The Briefing: AI for Science " earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new " AI workbench for scientists " that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it says is AI's potential to "dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare interventions," and touted a long list of biotech and pharma customers already using Claude. Anthropic also went a step further, saying it would develop drugs of its own. Head of life sciences Eric Kauderer-Abrams said the company will focus on discovering treatments for "neglected" diseases. AI companies have been eager to court science and pharma customers — OpenAI , Amazon , Googl...