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Amazon admits it accidentally shelled out $1.8 million for Claude to finish its menial coding tasks

TechRadarPublished Aug 4, 2026

Amazon's internal AI project Claude Sonnet, designed to match author details with product listings, overspent by 860%, costing $1.8 million and going unnoticed for nearly five months. Additional AI initiatives also exceeded budgets, raising concerns about unchecked AI-related expenses within Amazon.

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