Market2026-10-05

Meta and Microsoft are cutting employee use of Claude. Both are major Anthropic customers. The move challenges Anthropic’s growth. Microsoft had projected higher spending earlier this year.

What changed

Microsoft projected spending at least the prior amount on Claude.

  • internal Claude spending cut by a third

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