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Amazon accidentally spent $1.8M using Claude for a menial coding task, went

Amazon accidentally spent $1.8 million using Anthropic's Claude AI for a menial coding task, highlighting the high costs of AI misuse in enterprise environments.

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Amazon accidentally spent $1.8M using Claude for a menial coding task, went
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