Enterprises impose AI token caps as costs surge from non-technical usage

Major firms including Uber and Accenture are curbing AI spending after discovering that non-technical staff, rather than engineers, drive excessive token consumption through tasks like PDF-to-markdown conversion. Uber reportedly exhausted its entire annual AI budget in four months, prompting new usage caps.
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