After telling employees to stop using Claude Code, Microsoft's internal memo has more 'bad news' for Anthropic

AnthropicAugust 5, 2026en

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AI Global Wire

Microsoft has told engineers that "tokenmaxxing is not what we are optimizing for" in a new internal memo from EVP Jay Parikh. The memo makes OpenAI's GPT-5.6 the default internal model, replacing an auto-router that had been sending GitHub Copilot workloads to Anthropic's Claude.

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