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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)
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[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Imagine how many jobs all that money could have provided instead of laying off thousands of employees.

[–] zbyte64@awful.systems 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

A million dollars would be 10 teachers at 6 figures, could have been 5 thousand teachers for a year.

[–] logi@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

Or put that money in a fund and pay 300 teachers at 100K indefinitely from the returns.