Claude

A Ban With No Room for Negotiation On July 3, Alibaba issued an internal directive: every employee must uninstall all Anthropic products — including Claude Sonnet, Opus, Fable, and the Claude Code agent — by July 10. The ban is total. No exceptions, no transitional period. This comes at a time when the AI assistant landscape is already shifting — ChatGPT is losing ground while Claude has been quietly gaining among power users, but trust issues like this could change that trajectory. ...

I came across a set of recent numbers that felt both surprising and, at the same time, completely expected. According to data from market research firm Apptopia, ChatGPT’s share of the U.S. mobile chatbot market dropped below 40% in March 2026. Just a few months earlier, in September 2025, it was still comfortably above 50%. But Claude’s rise comes with controversy — Alibaba has now banned all Anthropic products internally after revelations that Claude Code secretly fingerprinted Chinese users. And if you’re using AI agents, be aware that they cost 10-50x more tokens than chatbots. ...