Somewhere inside a large enterprise, someone opened the floodgates to Claude AI. Nobody set a budget. Nobody capped usage. Employees went wild with advanced models, long-context prompts, and agentic workflows. The result: a $500 million bill in a single month. That number is not a typo. Half a billion dollars, spent on AI in 30 days, because the organizational equivalent of a parental control was never switched on. The incident, reported by an AI consultant to Axios on May 28, represents what might be the most expensive IT governance failure in recent memory. The enterprise client gave employees unrestricted access ... (full story)