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Investing.com-- Anthropic is tightening efforts to block unauthorized access to its artificial intelligence services from China after identifying methods used by Chinese companies to bypass its restrictions, the Financial Times reported on Thursday, citing people familiar with the matter.
The report said companies including Ant Financial have accessed Anthropic's Claude AI tools through overseas subsidiaries, cloud providers and other workarounds.
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Ant provided employees with corporate Claude accounts linked to its Singapore-based entity, while ByteDance reimbursed engineers for personal Claude subscriptions that they accessed using virtual private networks (VPNs), the report added.
The practices reportedly do not violate U.S. or Chinese law but breach Anthropic's terms of service, which prohibit Chinese companies and foreign entities under their control from using its AI models.
According to the FT, Anthropic has stepped up efforts to detect and shut down such access, including monitoring accounts for indicators such as users' computer time zones and targeting "transfer station" services that relay requests through overseas Claude accounts.
The newspaper said some companies also accessed Claude through foreign subsidiaries using cloud infrastructure, including Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Azure platform.
