{"id":1010880,"date":"2026-05-29T12:08:36","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:38:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010880"},"modified":"2026-05-29T12:08:36","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T06:38:36","slug":"amazon-reportedly-shuts-down-employee-ai-leadership-board-and-the-reason-is-rising-costs-that-analysts-have-been-warning-companies-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/amazon-reportedly-shuts-down-employee-ai-leadership-board-and-the-reason-is-rising-costs-that-analysts-have-been-warning-companies-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon reportedly shuts down &#8217;employee AI leadership board&#8217; and the reason is rising costs that analysts have been warning companies about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reportedly shut down its internal leaderboard that tracked employees\u2019 use of AI. According to a Financial Times report, the development comes after Amazon workers tried to boost their scores with unnecessary activity that increased the company\u2019s computing costs. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said: \u201cEmployees at the $2.9tn group were told this week its \u201cKirorank\u201d service \u2014 which scored users of Amazon\u2019s Kiro developer platform based on their AI activity \u2014 had been taken offline\u201d. The incident highlights a growing concern for tech companies spending heavily on AI. Analysts have warned that more AI use can also mean higher costs.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon employees reportedly inflated AI usage<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has reportedly shut down its internal leaderboard that tracked employees\u2019 use of AI. According to a Financial Times report, the development comes after Amazon workers tried to boost their scores with unnecessary activity that increased the company\u2019s computing costs. Citing people familiar with the matter, the report said: \u201cEmployees at the $2.9tn group were told this week its \u201cKirorank\u201d service \u2014 which scored users of Amazon\u2019s Kiro developer platform based on their AI activity \u2014 had been taken offline\u201d. The incident highlights a growing concern for tech companies spending heavily on AI. Analysts have warned that more AI use [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010881,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010880\/revisions\/1010881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}