Anthropic Clamps Down on AI Services for Chinese-Owned Firms

Anthropic is blocking its services from Chinese-controlled companies, saying it’s taking steps to prevent a US adversary from advancing in AI and threatening American national security.

The San Francisco-based startup is widening existing restrictions on “authoritarian” regimes to cover any company that’s majority-owned by entities from countries such as China. That includes their overseas operations, it said in a statement. Foreign-based subsidiaries could be used to access its technology and further military applications, the startup added.