alt.hn

5/30/2026 at 8:36:21 PM

Mystery company accidentally blew $500M on Claude AI in a single month

 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/mystery-company-accidentally-blew-usd500-million-on-claude-in-a-single-month-failed-to-put-usage-limit-on-licenses-for-employees

by timpera

5/31/2026 at 12:07:15 AM

> Recently, Uber's chief exec claimed there was no link between AI 'tokenmaxxing' and shipping useful products. It's a phenomenon perhaps most keenly reported at Amazon (which some X users have speculated may be the mystery company in question), where employees are said to have been caught inflating AI token consumption to meet internal targets.

So it's Amazon?

by saaspirant

5/31/2026 at 1:43:20 AM

Wild. At my company, we have an internal LLM proxy to the frontier models, and once you exceed 2k in a day your access is disabled.

by derwiki

5/31/2026 at 1:55:20 PM

Isn't that going to eventually be another useless metric to be wrongly interpreted to fire the top workers and keep the middlings?

by cyanydeez

5/31/2026 at 6:02:40 PM

Sure. We’ll always have useless metrics like this. At least token count is game-able at this stage.

by derwiki

5/30/2026 at 9:41:58 PM

Was it uber?

by boredatoms