{
  "id": 12290823,
  "title": "Microsoft, Meta Push Staff Away From Anthropic's Claude To In-House AI Tool",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/06/microsoft-meta-push-staff-away-from-anthropics-claude-to-in-house-ai",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-06T03:35:25.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Free Press Journal",
    "slug": "free-press-journal",
    "url": "https://www.freepressjournal.in/tech/microsoft-meta-push-staff-away-from-anthropics-claude-to-in-house-ai-tool"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "Microsoft and Meta have redirected their employees away from Anthropic's Claude AI technology in favor of their own in-house solutions. Both companies, which are among Anthropic's largest corporate customers, are facing challenges to their rapid growth due to this shift. Microsoft had planned to spend $1 billion this year on internal use of Anthropic's technology, but that figure has been reduced by a third. The expenditure covers Claude Code, Claude models within Microsoft's Copilot, and Claude Mythos. Microsoft is now directing staff towards its GitHub Copilot coding tool, while still giving engineers the option to choose other models. Meta's usage of Claude Code has dropped from approximately 60,000 employees earlier in the year to around 30,000, as the company has promoted the use of Muse Code and MetaCode, tools designed for internal use. This move poses a challenge for Anthropic, as both Microsoft and Meta are among its top corporate customers. The company is also grappling with the difficulty of predicting AI costs, as revealed by a recent WSJ survey indicating that only 11 percent of 400 businesses surveyed could accurately forecast their AI spending. Despite the challenges, Anthropic remains the leader in business adoption, with 43.5 percent of US businesses paying for its subscriptions or tokens as of July. The AI Index also revealed a significant disparity in AI spending, with the top 1 percent of US businesses spending a median of $7,400 per employee on AI, compared to $11.95 for the average company.",
  "summary": "Microsoft and Meta have each scaled back internal use of Anthropic's Claude by steering employees toward their own AI products. The two companies are among Anthropic's biggest corporate customers, which makes any pullback a challenge for the AI firm's efforts to keep its rapid growth going. Microsoft had been on course to spend $1 billion this year on internal use of Anthropic's technology, a…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 2,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "PYMNTS",
        "title": "Microsoft and Meta Steer Staff From Anthropic Claude to In-House AI",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/microsoft-and-meta-steer-staff-from-anthropic-claude-to-in-house-ai",
        "published": "2026-10-05T21:47:35.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}