# AI News Digest - 2026-06-30

1. Meta restricted its engineers' use of Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex to prevent outputs from those tools being incorporated into Meta's own training data.

2. Amazon distilled Anthropic models into smaller, cheaper internal versions to reduce costs ahead of a shift to token-based pricing that was scheduled to begin next year.

3. Microsoft published a report showing technology teams' confidence in agentic AI had surged for measurable tasks, identifying data workflows as a breakthrough domain and ranking 101 tasks by agent readiness based on a survey of 300 global experts.

4. MIT Technology Review reported research that found framing AI agents as "employees" reduced human error detection and responsibility, with a Boston University study finding participants caught 18% fewer errors and were more likely to escalate questionable outputs.

5. Deloitte informed its consultants that AI was projected to substantially shrink the billable-hour model by 2035, indicating the traditional hourly billing approach would become a much smaller portion of consulting revenue.

# References

1. [https://the-decoder.com/meta-restricts-use-of-claude-code-and-codex-to-keep-rival-ai-out-of-its-training-data/](https://the-decoder.com/meta-restricts-use-of-claude-code-and-codex-to-keep-rival-ai-out-of-its-training-data/)

[Meta restricts use of Claude Code and Codex to keep rival AI out of its training data](https://the-decoder.com/meta-restricts-use-of-claude-code-and-codex-to-keep-rival-ai-out-of-its-training-data/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/amazon-engineers-are-reportedly-distilling-anthropic-models-to-cut-costs-before-new-token-based-pricing-kicks-in/](https://the-decoder.com/amazon-engineers-are-reportedly-distilling-anthropic-models-to-cut-costs-before-new-token-based-pricing-kicks-in/)

[Amazon engineers are reportedly distilling Anthropic models to cut costs before new token-based pricing kicks in](https://the-decoder.com/amazon-engineers-are-reportedly-distilling-anthropic-models-to-cut-costs-before-new-token-based-pricing-kicks-in/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139635/agent-confidence-on-the-technical-frontier/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139635/agent-confidence-on-the-technical-frontier/)

[Agent confidence on the technical frontier](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139635/agent-confidence-on-the-technical-frontier/)

1. [https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139849/ai-agents-are-not-your-coworkers/](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139849/ai-agents-are-not-your-coworkers/)

[AI agents are not your “coworkers”](https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/06/29/1139849/ai-agents-are-not-your-coworkers/)

1. [https://the-decoder.com/deloitte-tells-its-own-consultants-ai-is-coming-for-the-billable-hour/](https://the-decoder.com/deloitte-tells-its-own-consultants-ai-is-coming-for-the-billable-hour/)

[Deloitte tells its own consultants: AI is coming for the billable hour](https://the-decoder.com/deloitte-tells-its-own-consultants-ai-is-coming-for-the-billable-hour/)

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