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Microsoft Slashes Internal Claude Spending by a Third

By Aaron Holmes, Jyoti Mann and Kevin McLaughlin · Oct 5, 2026 11:14am PDT · 4 comments
Meta Platforms and Microsoft, two of Anthropic’s biggest corporate customers, are working to cut their employees’ use of Claude, a challenge for the AI firm’s efforts to sustain its explosive growth. Microsoft executives earlier this year projected that the company was on track to spend at least $1 billion on its own internal use of Anthropic’s... Meta Platforms and Microsoft, two of Anthropic’s biggest corporate customers, are working to cut...
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Applied AI

Snowflake CIO Says He Used Layoffs to Convince Staff to Use AI

By Laura Bratton and Aaron Holmes · Jun 4, 2026 10:30am PDT
Tech firms ranging from Block to Meta Platforms have announced mass layoffs in the past year, frequently citing AI as allowing them to do more with less people. In a variation on that approach Snowflake says it used layoffs to force software engineers to use AI tools and become more productive.“At the time, my team hated me, but I thought it was... Tech firms ranging from Block to Meta Platforms have announced mass layoffs in the past year,...
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Internal Memo Reveals Meta’s Plan to Kickstart Its Enterprise AI Business

By Jyoti Mann · May 27, 2026 3:09pm PDT · 2 comments
Meta Platforms plans to place engineers and product managers inside large corporate customers as part of a new unit at the social-media giant to push businesses to use its AI tools and services. In an internal memo, senior executive Naomi Gleit said the new organization, called Enterprise Solutions, will be made up of product managers who... Meta Platforms plans to place engineers and product managers inside large corporate...
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The Five Kinds of Model Routers That Cut AI Costs

By Rocket Drew and Laura Bratton · Jul 2, 2026 7:00am PDT · 1 comment
Before we get to today’s agenda, check out Phoebe’s report Wednesday night that Nvidia has launched a new program to financially backstop customers’ purchases of its AI chips. It’s yet another way Nvidia is leveraging its powerful balance sheet to keep the GPU data center party going.On to the column…As more companies reassess rising prices for... Before we get to today’s agenda, check out Phoebe’s report Wednesday night that Nvidia has...
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Applied AI

AT&T Throttles Some Employees’ AI Usage as ‘Tokenminimizing’ Arrives

By Laura Bratton and Aaron Holmes · Jun 16, 2026 12:13pm PDT · 1 comment
As AI spending has eaten into corporate budgets, generating concern over rising costs at Fortune 500 firms from Uber to ServiceNow and Snowflake, some companies are beginning to throttle employees’ usage. The latest is AT&T, which has begun limiting some employees’ access to Microsoft’s Github Copilot, according to a person at the... As AI spending has eaten into corporate budgets, generating concern over rising costs at Fortune...
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‘Tokenmaxxing’ and the AI Margin Squeeze

By The Information Staff · Apr 10, 2026 11:11am PDT
Debate around the prospects for companies like Anthropic and OpenAI has long centered on growth in both users and revenue. In recent months, the bigger story is how usage is changing and what that means for costs. Instead of asking a chatbot a single question, some users are increasingly relying on tools like Claude Code or ChatGPT’s coding... Debate around the prospects for companies like Anthropic and OpenAI has long centered on growth...