Even the gazillion-dollar empire that is Amazon is reeling from the costs of letting its employees run loose with AI agents. The Financial Times reports that staff at the company have identified cases of “catastrophically expensive” cost overruns as it switched over to using AI tools to perform what sound like pretty routine coding tasks. Amazon’s unintentional spending binges are part of a broader reckoning in the business world as leadership grapples with the costs of deploying AI tools across a company. It hosted an internal leaderboard, for example, that ranked employees based on how much they were using their AI tools. “Cherry-picking small, isolated examples where teams are learning from one another and portraying them as business as usual doesn’t reflect how teams across Amazon are using AI,” the spokesperson told the FT.More on AI: Amazon Is Gutting Its AI Division After Sustained Failure