Meta cuts Claude users by 50% as Microsoft slashes AI budgets from $100K to $10K per employee ahead of Anthropic IPO

Meta and Microsoft are pulling back on their employees’ use of Anthropic’s Claude, turning two of the AI startup’s biggest corporate customers into an early test of how much of the AI boom survives once companies start watching the bill. At Meta, the number of employees using Claude Code has fallen to roughly 30,000 from