Alibaba is blocking Claude Code for all employees starting July 10. The reason: hidden tracking code that identified Chinese users. The story behind it is more complicated than either side admits.
Anthropic released new admin analytics, spend alerts, and model entitlements for Claude Enterprise. The reason: companies like Uber had burned through their entire annual AI budget in just a few months.
Meituan revealed that the anonymous model 'Owl Alpha', which topped the OpenRouter charts for weeks, is actually LongCat-2.0 — a 1.6-trillion-parameter model trained without a single Nvidia chip.
Starting July 6, Tesla employees can spend no more than $200 a week on AI tools. The catch: Grok is exempt from the cap. And the engineers prefer Claude anyway.
The Financial Times reveals how Chinese tech giants used Singapore subsidiaries and VPNs to access Claude. Anthropic is now actively shutting them down.
Three updates in two days — Claude in Chrome is now GA, the permission mode is officially 'Manual', and background agents finally got reliable.
Anthropic finally gives Enterprise admins the tools they need: spending limits, model controls, and an analytics dashboard that speaks plainly.
Anthropic wants to reduce its dependence on Nvidia and is talking to Samsung about manufacturing its own processor. A lot is still up in the air — but the direction is clear.