One company paid $500,000,000 for AI in one month

Hey boss.Hey, what's going on?Is now a good time?Yeah, I'm just watching the live stream of Donald Trump's name being taken off the Kennedy Center building.Okay, so I've been looking at our numbers for the last month.Okay.

You know how our company pays Anthropic so everyone has access to Claude?Oh yeah, I've been using AI here for everything.He even writes deeply impersonal generic emails for me. I'm gonna repeat back verbatim what this person said in your reply to them because that's how humans talk, I think.Empathy!Right, so here's our expenses for the month.$3 for a shirt and decorations.

Yeah, I wanted to make a custom shirt like the Heim Sisters.

I've written 30 Knicks puns for you, sir.

Okay, this must be a mistake.It says $500 million for Claude.It's not a mistake.This is for a single month.You forgot to set limits on Claude's use within this company.Oh my god.

Hey, it happened to Uber too.They spent half a billion dollars in one month?I don't know, but they completely used all of their tokens for 2026 by April.

Token maxin' baby!Ching ching!

Is that like, Lux Maxine?No, it's just when companies encourage employees to use AI as much as possible.But our company, the one in this news story, a company we don't specifically know by name, this is just based on a report by Axios, our company should stop... doing that?Yeah, we should set limits.This is getting way too expensive.

You know, just this last Monday, Google made their AI service, Gemini, even cheaper.

Did they?Yeah, it's freaking out other AI companies.OpenAI, for example, wants to go public soon, but they're already under massive debt.So if they made their services cheaper, they'd be under even more debt.So we should maybe switch to Google.None of this is sustainable long term.

You're right.You're right.I'm going to write a staff email right now that we should cut back on our AI use.Did you just ask AI to write that email for you?

Do you want me to lie or do you want to be unhappy?