Jack Crivici-Kramer

Just to drive up the number of tokens they were using so they could hit number one on that leaderboard.

Just to max it out.

But, besties, a slew of headlines we noticed last week show that the token-maxing era is over, baby.

Because Anthropic just sent Amazon a bill, and that bill is gigantic.

Excuse me?

I need to speak to a manager.

Those AI agents aren't free, Nick.

And it started with Uber.

Last week, Uber's COO confirmed that they used up their annual token budget in just four months.

One anonymous company told Axios that one employee dropped 500 million bucks in a month on AI.

Wait, we gotta repeat that.

The employee's supposed to use AI to save the company money and boost productivity.

Instead, they racked up a $500 million bill.

One employee in one month.

It's a write-off?

So the bill, it's coming due for all these AI agents.

And as the companies see the receipts, they're getting sticker price shock.

You see, with these higher bills is coming higher scrutiny right now.

So CFOs are now demanding ROI calculations

on the AI's use at the company.