Goldman Sachs blocked Anthropic's Claude from its internal AI platform for all Hong Kong employees, citing a strict reading of its contract with Anthropic that concluded the region was never covered—a position Anthropic confirmed by stating Claude has "never been officially supported in Hong Kong," Bloomberg reports. ChatGPT and Gemini remain available on Goldman's internal platform; the restriction did not extend to other AI vendors. While U.S. AI models are outright prohibited in mainland China, Hong Kong has traditionally operated outside those restrictions, with each company setting its own policies—making Goldman's contractual determination a novel signal about how enterprise AI licensing is being interpreted in the APAC region.