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Alibaba is reportedly moving to ban Claude Code from its workplace, citing alleged backdoor risks tied to the Anthropic-built coding tool. The decision, if confirmed, signals how deeply geopolitical tension is now embedded in everyday enterprise software decisions, and how quickly trust can become a casualty in the AI race.
Shifting to a story about data and fine print, Databricks is claiming it has unified transactional and analytical databases with zero data duplication. Engineers are already pressing for details, and the answer appears to involve some careful definitions of what a copy actually is. It is a meaningful technical step, but the marketing is running a little ahead of the engineering.
And a reminder that digital ownership remains a polite fiction. Sony will begin removing purchased movies and television shows from some PlayStation libraries in September. Customers who paid full price will lose access, underscoring what consumer advocates have argued for years: a digital purchase is really a revocable license dressed up to look like ownership.
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