Overview

• New Terms of Service disallow access for entities more than 50% owned, directly or indirectly, by companies headquartered in unsupported jurisdictions, regardless of where those entities operate.
• Anthropic says the change closes a workaround in which restricted-region companies used overseas subsidiaries to obtain its services.
• The policy is framed as a security measure based on laws that can compel companies in authoritarian regions to share data or cooperate with intelligence services.
• The move extends earlier geographic blocks on countries including China, Russia, Iran and North Korea and follows similar access limits adopted by other major AI firms.
• Anthropic did not detail how ownership will be vetted or when enforcement begins, and it says it will continue pushing for strong export controls and other protective policies.