According to Bloomberg, after OKX’s business Claude account was briefly suspended in early August, the company has banned Hong Kong employees and employees who go through China from using Anthropic’s Claude; however, the company account has since been restored. OKX said that some Hong Kong employees’ prior usage may not have fully complied with Anthropic’s regional access policies. Therefore, it will, as required, restrict Hong Kong employees’ use of Claude and route related AI requests to other models. Anthropic’s policies currently do not allow the use of Claude in mainland China and Hong Kong. OKX previously encouraged employees to use AI at work and said it has incorporated relevant capabilities into performance evaluations. The company stated that its monthly spending with several major leading AI model providers is about US$6 million to US$8 million.