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A company accidentally spent $500 million on Claude in one month

Ellsworth Toohey
May 29, 2026
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An AI consultant told Axios that one of their clients “recently spent half a billion dollars in a single month” on Claude, the Anthropic AI assistant, because nobody had capped how much its employees could run on the licenses they were given.

Corporate leaders “are starting to question whether soaring AI spending is deliverin…

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