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Commenters link it for its summary of Microsoft cancelling Claude internally, though one notes it is an AI-generated summary of another AI-generated article.
This is an AI generated summary of a blog post (https://www.thelowdownblog.com/2026/05/microsoft-cancels-internal-anthropic.html) which is a summary of an AI generated article (https://blazetrends.com/microsoft-cancels-claude-code-pilot-as-enterprise-ai-token-costs-explode/) which is a summary of another AI generated article (https://www.themodelwire.com/article/microsoft-starts-canceling-claude-code-licenses-01KRKY0B0H5956E2TP5MF8XHB0) which is a summary of an article from The Verge (https://www.theverge.com/tech/930447/microsoft-claude-code-discontinued-notepad). I guess it would be better to link the Verge article instead.
The article alludes to this story[1] but not explicitly: the legend is that he was giving money to FSB officers to bribe Ukranian military to simply drop their weapons when the invasion happens. The FSB guys thought (I paraphrase): "Untraceable cash to prepare for an event that will never happen (invasion of Ukraine)? Wahey, get me the Mercedes dealership on the phone!". And when they found out Putin was actually serious about invading, they knew they'd be toast, so they thought they could leak the plans to the CIA to give Putin cold feet.
[1] http://www.thelowdownblog.com/2022/03/is-putins-invasion-failing-because.html
Someone can afford to race everyone to zero.
Remember Jevons paradox? [0] It isn't at Anthropic or Microsoft [0], but it is at DeepSeek.
[0] https://www.thelowdownblog.com/2026/05/microsoft-cancels-internal-anthropic.html