May 12, 2026
Amazon employees inflate AI usage to game internal "Tokenmaxxing" metrics
Amazon employees have begun running the company's internal AI tools on trivial tasks to inflate their token consumption metrics.
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May 2026
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Apr 26, 2026
Nvidia exec says AI compute now costs more than his team's salaries
Bryan Catanzaro, vice president of applied deep learning at Nvidia, has said that AI compute expenses for his team now exceed what the company pays the employees using the tools.
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Apr 14, 2026
Uber's CTO has already exhausted the company's 2026 AI budget
Uber chief technology officer has reportedly already burned through the company's full 2026 AI budget, with token costs as the primary driver.
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