Companies are scrambling to stop employees from maxing out AI budgets with small tasks
2026-06-24 · TechCrunch
Companies handed employees unlimited AI access and are now shocked — shocked! — that people actually used it. Turns out letting workers burn through tokens on trivial tasks gets expensive fast, so now it's rationing time. The 'AI will transform everything' era is speedrunning into the 'AI is too expensive for everything' era.