Meta and Microsoft scale back internal usage of Anthropic Claude models
Meta and Microsoft are significantly scaling back internal usage of Anthropic's Claude models to promote their own AI tools. Microsoft reduced its cloud division's monthly per-employee Claude budget from $100,000 to $10,000, while Meta decreased its Claude Code user base by half to 30,000 seats. Claims are as reported; this summary makes no determination about accuracy or significance.
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