More and more companies are realizing that AI might not be worth its sky-high price tag—and least, not without limits. One company reportedly learned that the hard way, after its employees blew through $500 million in spending on AI in just one month. An AI consultant told Axios that one of their clients recently spent half a billion dollars in a month on Claude licenses from Anthropic. How did the company rack up such an insanely high bill? Its employees apparently had no limit on how many licenses they could use, leaving them free to splurge on as much Claude as possible. That means expensive AI tools could be deployed for uses humans could easily and quickly accomplish themselves, like checking the weather, as one CTO told Axios their employees were doing. The cautionary tale quickly went viral on social media, with users marveling at how spending half a billion dollars on AI could even be possible. “5 private jets. 2 superyachts. One whole island. Gone. Vaporized into tokens,” one user reflected .…