Is your AI stack a financial liability?

An unnamed enterprise spent $500 million on Claude in a single month. They had failed to set usage limits on employee licences. No caps. No monitoring. One invoice.

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by April, just four months into the year, after giving 5,000 engineers unrestricted access to Claude Code. Individual engineers were generating $500 to $2,000 per month each.

EU AI Act transparency obligations became enforceable in August 2026. Companies operating AI systems that interact with the public without documented governance face fines of up to 15 million euros or 3% of global annual turnover.