Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“An abrupt decision by American artificial intelligence firm Anthropic to restrict service to Chinese-owned entities anywhere in the world has cast uncertainty over some Claude-dependent overseas tools backed by China’s tech giants. After Anthropic’s notice on Friday that it would upgrade access restrictions to entities ‘more than 50 per cent owned … by companies headquartered in unsupported regions’ such as China, regardless of where they are, Chinese users have fretted over whether they could still access the San Francisco-based firm’s industry-leading AI models. While it remains unknown how many entities could be affected and how the restrictions would be implemented, anxiety has started to spread among some users.” (09/07/25)