Internal Amazon documents leaked on July 31 reveal a Claude Sonnet project that consumed $1.8 million — 860% over its original budget — before anyone noticed, and the project never shipped. The task, …
Amazon engineers reported during a July 28 internal meeting that a product listing AI project exceeded its budget by 860%, with the overspend undetected for five months, and an unshipped Anthropic Cla…
Amazon has flagged multiple AI projects with spending overruns as its $200 billion capital expenditure plan for 2026 runs into employee overuse of tools and ballooning operational costs, according to …
Amazon deprecated its internal KiroRank leaderboard on May 29, 2026, after engineers began running pointless AI tasks to boost token consumption rankings, a practice called 'tokenmaxxing,' illustratin…
AI Gateway data shows DeepSeek's share of tokens on the platform surged from under 1% to 17% in May, while its share of spend remained near 1%, as the low-cost model entered production use. Anthropic'…
Amazon shut down an internal employee-created leaderboard called "KiroRank" that tracked AI token usage, after the tool encouraged staff to use AI for tasks that did not solve actual problems. Dave Tr…
Amazon removed an internal AI usage leaderboard called "KiroRank" after employees allegedly engaged in "tokenmaxxing," running unnecessary AI calls to inflate their usage scores. Senior vice-president…