Amazon scraps AI leaderboard to stop workers chasing usage scores • Financial Times (opens in new tab)

Rafe Rosner-Uddin: Amazon has shut down an internal leaderboard that tracked employees’ use of AI tools after workers tried to boost their scores with unnecessary activity that increased the company’s computing costs. Employees at the $2.9tn group were told this week its “Kirorank” service — which scored users of Amazon’s Kiro developer platform based on their AI activity — had been taken offline, according to two people familiar with the matter. The decision came after the tool led some work...