Beyond Claude Code: the Chinese AI tools poised to benefit after back-door alert

Beijing’s recent cybersecurity warning against American artificial intelligence lab Anthropic is expected to accelerate a shift among Chinese developers towards domestic coding alternatives, according to analysts. China’s National Vulnerability Database (NVDB), overseen by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, issued an alert this week claiming multiple versions of Anthropic’s flagship Claude Code tool contained a security “back door”. According to the agency, the software could...