[Microsoft Tightens Internal Token Usage Management to Control AI Costs] According to Deep Tide TechFlow on August 31, foreign media reports indicate that Microsoft has begun strengthening the monitoring of internal token usage and is gradually switching default workloads to OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol to reduce AI usage costs. Leaked internal data shows that some employees have incurred high AI usage costs, with one employee generating approximately $28,000 in token costs over 28 days. Microsoft is enhancing the management of internal AI usage value through budget restrictions and abnormal expenditure identification mechanisms, while reducing reliance on third-party tools like Anthropic Claude for programming tasks.