Microsoft Cuts Internal Claude Spending After $1 Billion Run-Rate Projection

Microsoft has cut internal spending on Anthropic's Claude by more than one-third after employee use was earlier projected to cost at least $1 billion on an annualized basis. The pullback affects internal operations, while customer use of Anthropic models through Microsoft enterprise platforms was described as continuing to grow even as Microsoft steers more employee work toward its own tools and OpenAI models employee spending estimate.