Anthropic moves to shut China AI access loopholes
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- Anthropic is moving to close loopholes allowing Chinese companies including Ant to use its models via workarounds such as third-party cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries, according to sources.
- Engineers have continued finding ways to route around the restrictions, prompting Anthropic to act on closing the remaining gaps.
Why it matters: Without shutting these routing workarounds — cloud providers and overseas subsidiaries — Anthropic's stated restrictions on Chinese access to its frontier AI models would remain largely cosmetic. The fact that engineers kept finding paths around the rules forced the company into a reactive enforcement stance.
