Meta cuts Claude users by 50% as Microsoft slashes AI budgets from $100K to $10K per employee ahead of Anthropic IPOMeta 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 fromTechStartups.com20h agoWhole story →TechnologyEconomy
Top Tech News Today, October 2, 2026: Amazon, Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, Suno, Tesla & MoreIt’s Friday, October 2, 2026, and the AI build-out is showing its seams in public. Safety researchers are leaving OpenAI, a federal judge has shut the door on publisher lawsuits over AI Overviews, senators want criminal liability when AI agents hack, and Amazon is exploring a structure that could shift $8 billion in Nvidia chipsTechStartups.com5d agoWhole story →JusticeTechnologyai regulation developments
Meta classified Zuckerberg as a researcher to claim $355 million tax break on $4.1 billion pay, NYT reportsMeta turned billions of dollars in Mark Zuckerberg’s stock compensation into a research tax break, arguing that its CEO’s work building Facebook qualified him for a federal government incentive for technological research. The company claimed roughly $355 million in tax savings tied to $4.1 billion in stock options Zuckerberg exercised, according to a New…TechStartups.com7d agoWhole story →EducationSecuritymeta tax dispute
FTC opens probe into OpenAI and Anthropic over rogue AI agents and potential consumer harmThe Federal Trade Commission has opened a sweeping investigation into OpenAI, Anthropic and other leading AI labs as Washington confronts a new question: who is responsible when an autonomous AI agent crosses a line and causes real-world harm? The inquiry will examine potential consumer risks tied to increasingly autonomous AI systems, Reuters reported…TechStartups.com7d agoWhole story →TechnologyCommerceftc ai probe
