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 • 2 months ago

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timpera• 2 months ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307098

boredatoms• 2 months ago

Was it uber?

saaspirant• 2 months ago

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?

derwiki2• 2 months ago

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.

cyanydeez• 2 months ago

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

derwiki2• 2 months ago

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

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

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