Tesla told staff it will impose a $200-per-week limit on employee AI spending starting July 6, according to an internal memo reported by The Information (paywall).
The cap lands just months after Tesla pushed employees to use AI more aggressively, a sign that even companies betting their future on the technology are struggling to control its costs.
The reversal is fast. Over the past six months, Tesla leadership worked to move scattered employee AI usage onto a companywide approach with approved models and formal security policies, then quickly followed with guardrails on spending, according to people who worked with the technology.
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