BEIJING — China on Wednesday warned of "back-door" security risks affecting companies that use U.S.-based company Anthropic的 Claude Code artificial intelligence tool.

与此同时，中美科技竞赛愈演愈烈,，Anthropic 上个月指责中国公司阿里巴巴试图提取其人工智能功能,，而这些功能在中国尚未正式提供。阿里巴巴当时没有对这些指控发表评论。

It comes as the U.S.-China tech race intensifies, with Anthropic last month blaming Chinese company Alibaba for attempting to extract its AI capabilities, which are not officially available in China. Alibaba did not comment on the accusations at the time.

Many locals in China have found ways to use U.S. AI tools, however. In March, a Xiaomi AI developer said at a state-organized forum that many were using Claude Code. And Alibaba has ordered its employees to stop using Anthropic tools for work starting July 10, CNBC confirmed on Monday.

The Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Wednesday its cybersecurity threat platform found "AI coding tool Claude Code contains a security back-door vulnerability that poses a serious threat."

根据 CNBC 翻译，自主编码工具可以在未经用户的 同意, 的情况下将敏感信息发送到远程服务器, 该声明用中文, 表示。 It noted that the information could include a user的 location and identity.

The autonomous coding tool can send sensitive information to a remote server without a user的 consent, the statement said in Chinese, according to a CNBC translation. It noted that the information could include a user的 location and identity.

网络安全平台表示，用户应卸载或从受影响的克劳德代码版本, 2.1.91升级到2.1.196,。根据 Anthropic的 网站,，这涵盖了从 4 月 2 日到 6 月 29, 发布的版本，该网站表示截至周三的最新版本 Claude Code 是 2.1.204。

Users should uninstall or upgrade from the affected Claude Code versions, 2.1.91 to 2.1.196, the cybersecurity platform said. That covers versions released from April 2 to June 29, according to Anthropic的 website, which says the latest version of Claude Code as of Wednesday is 2.1.204.

When contacted about the Chinese warning, Anthropic said the "backdoor" was an experiment earlier this year to protect against distillation.这家美国公司指出，其政策还禁止总部位于中国的组织控股的实体使用该服务。

When contacted about the Chinese warning, Anthropic said the "backdoor" was an experiment earlier this year to protect against distillation. The U.S. company pointed out its policy also prohibits usage by entities majority-owned by China-headquartered organizations.

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