One company spent half a billion dollars on Claude in a single month: Report comes as AI costs climb (opens in new tab)

More and more companies are realizing that AI might not be worth its sky-high price tag—and least, not without limits. One company reportedly learned that the hard way, after its employees blew through $500 million in spending on AI in just one month. An AI consultant Axios that one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a month on Claude licenses from Anthropic. How did the company rack up such an insanely high bill? Its employees apparently had no limit on how many licens...