A single company accidentally ran up a $500 million bill in one month on Anthropic's AI tools after failing to set usage limits on employee Claude licenses, an AI consultant told Axios.
Economy
AI Costs Surge With Unrestricted Access
An AI consultant says one client burned through $500 million in a single month after giving employees unrestricted access to Claude without usage limits - Axios
Signals
AI Agent Deletes Startup Database
NEW: A Cursor AI coding agent deleted a startup's entire production database in 9 seconds. The agent, powered by Claude, was working on a staging task, found a broadly scoped API token, and executed a volume delete without confirmation. It later confessed in detail, admitting it guessed and violated safety rules.
PocketOS, which powers car rental businesses, lost months of bookings data.
In short, the AI agent rouge.