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Mystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employees (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 3 days ago by throws_lemy@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] quips@slrpnk.net 25 points 2 days ago (2 children)

This is the yearly salary of 5,000 well paid employees…

[–] abc@suppo.fi 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Also the monthly Claude Teams Pro price for about 4 000 000 employees. Which I'm guessing perhaps they weren't using.

[–] billwashere@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Or since this was only in a month, 60000 employees for that same month.

But imagine having a software studio with 1000 skilled developers to work on a project for 5 years. I have several good game ideas I could have created in that time frame. Some might even have made money. Likely not half a billion dollars but still….

This just screams money laundering though.