Amazon has ordered its coders to rein in their AI use amid concerns that tech workers are blowing through company budgets on chatbots. The online retailer told staff that technology giants' efforts to track AI usage by their software engineers were "deeply flawed" and risked driving up costs. Some technology businesses have started ranking staff by how many AI tokens, the building blocks of AI bots, they use. It has driven a trend of "tokenmaxxing" among workers as they compete to maximise their AI use. However, bosses have since had to curb usage and limit AI spending after engineers burned through budgets on coding projects.
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