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

• boredatoms 4mo ago
  Was it uber?
• timpera 4mo ago
  Related: https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307098 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48307098
• saaspirant 4mo 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?
• derwiki 4mo 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 4mo ago
    Isn't that going to eventually be another useless metric to be wrongly interpreted to fire the top workers and keep the middlings?
    • derwiki 4mo ago
      Sure. We’ll always have useless metrics like this. At least token count is game-able at this stage.