OKX blocks Hong Kong staff from using Claude

OKX has blocked employees working in Hong Kong or traveling to mainland China from using Anthropic’s AI model Claude, Bloomberg reported. After its enterprise Claude account was temporarily suspended, OKX found that access by Hong Kong-based staff may not have complied with Anthropic’s regional access policy and restricted access for employees in those locations in early August. The enterprise account was later restored. Anthropic does not allow Claude to be used in Hong Kong or China. OKX also decided not to support VPN-based workaround access to Claude for employees in those regions and plans to offer other AI models instead.