Meta Caps Internal AI Token Spending After Costs Approach Billions in 2026

Meta has implemented spending controls on employee AI usage after internal token consumption reached 73.7 trillion tokens in 30 days, putting the company on track for billions of dollars in costs during 2026. CTO Andrew Bosworth warned against "tokenmaxxing"—inflating AI usage metrics without genuine productivity gains—and the company plans to replace its gamified leaderboard with a centralized "AI Gateway" dashboard and formal token budgets in 2027. Meta is also shifting employees away from third-party tools like Anthropic's Claude toward its own MetaCode coding assistant to reduce costs.