Five minutes. What happened, and what to do about it. All stories from 7 October 2026
Google unveils Gemini 4 Argon, a top coding and business model that only trusted security teams can use for now
Priced at $2 per million input tokens, but wider access waits on safety checks and a US government review.
Meta and Microsoft are cutting back on Claude and steering staff to their own AI tools
The Decoder· 5 OctThe Information reports that Microsoft and Meta, two of Anthropic's largest business customers, have sharply cut internal use of Claude. At Microsoft, spending had been projected at over $1 billion a year, and executives told staff to use GitHub Copilot and OpenAI models instead. Spending fell by more than a third. At Meta, Claude Code users dropped from about 60,000 to 30,000, partly because of layoffs.
- Check how many of your own AI subscriptions are used each week, and cancel the ones nobody opens.
- Keep your prompts and files in formats you can move, so switching AI suppliers takes an afternoon and not a project.
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