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The Huoxing Finance report states that on May 29, as enterprises widely deploy AI, an increasing number of companies are questioning whether their high AI expenditures are truly delivering returns. The report notes that Microsoft has canceled most of its Claude Code licenses, largely due to excessive costs; Uber’s COO has also publicly stated that AI spending is becoming “increasingly difficult to justify.” Of particular concern is the revelation from an AI consultant to Axios that one of his clients spent as much as $500 million in a single month due to unrestricted employee use of Claude. Industry experts point out that many companies previously fell into what is termed “tokenmaxxing”—frantically consuming AI tokens in pursuit of full AI integration—yet have seen poor actual ROI. Micro1 CEO Ali Ansari said that the only truly mature large-scale commercial application of AI right now is “primarily programming,” yet many companies are blindly applying AI across their entire organizations, causing IT costs to surge. The report also mentions that some employees even use expensive AI models to query simple questions like the weather, while enterprise-grade AI services are not truly “unlimited”; a large volume of simple requests can rapidly drive up token costs. Meanwhile, an increasing number of companies are beginning to offset AI expenditure pressures through layoffs. CloudBees CEO Anuj Kapur said that for some companies, the real reason behind layoffs may simply be “it’s the only way to cover the AI bill.”