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Market Chatter: Amazon Shuts Internal AI Leaderboard After Employees Inflated Usage Scores

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Amazon.com (AMZN) has shut down an internal leaderboard tracking AI tool usage after some employees tried to boost their scores through unnecessary activity that increased the company's computing costs, the Financial Times reported Friday, citing two people familiar with the matter.

Dave Treadwell, an Amazon senior vice-president, told staff the leaderboard had been created with "good intentions," but led to additional costs as employees engaged in "tokenmaxxing," or inflating their consumption of AI tokens, according to the report.

Amazon did not immediately respond to' request for comment.

(Market Chatter news is derived from conversations with market professionals globally. This information is believed to be from reliable sources but may include rumor and speculation. Accuracy is not guaranteed.)

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