Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agoMystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employeeswww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square85fedilinkarrow-up1456arrow-down18
arrow-up1448arrow-down1external-linkMystery company accidentally blew $500 million on Claude in a single month — failed to put usage limit on licenses for employeeswww.tomshardware.comSahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 hours agomessage-square85fedilink
minus-squareSgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up112arrow-down1·8 hours agoI feel like this is fake company and they are spreading this to cook the books.
minus-squareUnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours ago“Sorry Shareholders. We have $500M in bad debt to Anthropic. So now we’re liquidating and your shares are worthless.”
minus-squareColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 hours agoCook the books by claiming $500 million in profits? That’s a lot of tax money and a lot to risk over just keeping investors happy for a short amount of time.
minus-squaremPony@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24·7 hours agoIf it isn’t a fake company I’d be shocked. It’s not like there’s a whole lot of external accountability in the entire business model.
minus-squareUpgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·edit-25 hours agoconsidering i read a good article about axios editors inside trading the iran war, this makes sense it appears axios is the source of this https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs, article about axios https://www.salon.com/2026/05/09/axios-accused-of-market-manipulation-with-iran-reporting/
I feel like this is fake company and they are spreading this to cook the books.
“Sorry Shareholders. We have $500M in bad debt to Anthropic. So now we’re liquidating and your shares are worthless.”
Cook the books by claiming $500 million in profits? That’s a lot of tax money and a lot to risk over just keeping investors happy for a short amount of time.
If it isn’t a fake company I’d be shocked. It’s not like there’s a whole lot of external accountability in the entire business model.
Wash trade
considering i read a good article about axios editors inside trading the iran war, this makes sense it appears axios is the source of this https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/ai-spending-roi-enterprise-costs, article about axios https://www.salon.com/2026/05/09/axios-accused-of-market-manipulation-with-iran-reporting/