💸 The US Army's "unlimited" AI lasted six weeks
In May 2026, the DoD announced unlimited AI access for 3.5 million employees. By mid-June, the tokens were gone.
The Army runs Ask Sage — Gemini, Llama, ChatGPT — for official work. Users got 200K tokens/month with auto top-ups, and light users were nudged to spend more. Someone mathed that wrong.
"The whole Army burned through a year of tokens for one service," an employee told WIRED anonymously.
Unlimited was doing a lot of work in that sentence.
Ars Technica
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