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Shots Fired: Meta Is Developers on Outside AI Tools “in Half”. That’s a Big Problem for Anthropic

Key TakeawaysMeta has reportedly cut the number of employees using Anthropic’s Claude Code in half, from about 60,000 earlier this year to about 30,000, and is moving staff onto its own coding tools. This is a big problem for Anthropic: it depends on a small group of large customers, and the biggest of them can now build their own models.

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Stocks· October 19, 2026 at 08:43 PM
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Key TakeawaysMeta has reportedly cut the number of employees using Anthropic’s Claude Code in half, from about 60,000 earlier this year to about 30,000, and is moving staff onto its own coding tools. This is a big problem for Anthropic: it depends on a small group of large customers, and the biggest of them can now build their own models.

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