Sources: Meta and Microsoft are working to cut their employees' use of Claude; Meta employees using Claude Code have dropped to ~30K from ~60K earlier this year
THE SO WHAT
When large platforms move to wean internal users off a third-party assistant, it’s about data gravity and strategic dependency as much as cost. If your employees are standardizing on external copilots, assume a future where your primary platform vendor nudges—formally or informally—toward its own stack and plan for migration friction now.
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