Amazon Closes Internal AI Usage Dashboard

Amazon closed an internal dashboard that tracked employee AI use last week after some staff performed tasks just to climb the leaderboard, the Financial Times reported. Dave Treadwell, an Amazon senior vice president, told staff: "Please don't use AI just for the sake of using AI.

" An Amazon spokesperson said employees set up the unofficial dashboard a few weeks ago to drive awareness of how AI can accelerate work and that it was never intended to promote the use of AI for usage's sake.

Uber's COO Andrew Macdonald said in an interview released in late May that he has yet to see improvements directly linked to increased AI spending. Microsoft's GitHub Copilot is moving from a fixed monthly payment to usage-based billing this week. In an April blog post, GitHub said it had absorbed much of the rising cost of its technology and that the fixed pricing model is no longer sustainable.

Anthropic and OpenAI are also moving away from flat-rate seats to usage-based billing for business customers. 5 Flash model rivals frontier offerings at a lower price.

Ai, said the tokenmaxxing craze stemmed from FOMO and companies not understanding the full challenge of building with AI. Visa rewards teams that use AI to supercharge their work with internal points that can be used to buy things like a coffee maker.

Tim Mills, managing partner at ACF Investors, said the tokenmaxxing debate feels like a sensible check on the validity of utility rather than a sign of an impending bubble.