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Meta is spending millions on AI tokens every single month Meta spent months pushing employees to use more AI at work. Now it is reportedly trying to slow them down after internal usage exploded. Staff burned through 73.7 trillion AI tokens in about 30 days, much of it through tools like Claude, Anthropic’s AI assistant. An internal memo reportedly warned that Meta’s own AI use was on track to cost billions of dollars in 2026. Part of the problem came from a leaderboard called Claudeonomics, which ranked employees by token use and gave out titles like Token Legend. Some employees reportedly kept AI agents running just to climb the rankings. Now Meta is removing the leaderboard, adding a new usage dashboard called AI Gateway, and pushing engineers toward its own coding assistant, MetaCode. The biggest companies in the world are all betting on the same thing: Agentic AI #ai