US start-up Anthropic blocks Chinese firms’ subsidiaries from AI access

Sep 5, 2025

US artificial intelligence start-up Anthropic has updated its service restriction policy to prohibit access from global subsidiaries of Chinese companies – the latest limit imposed by a major player in an increasingly divided AI landscape. In a statement published on its website on Friday, the San Francisco-based company laid out its updated terms of service, which now broaden access restrictions to entities “more than 50 per cent owned, directly or indirectly, by companies headquartered in...

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