By Hillary Remy
Publication Date: 2026-05-31 17:17:00
For the past two years, the message from Big Tech to its employees was simple: use more AI. The companies that used it most would win. The numbers would follow.
The numbers have not followed. And now the message is changing.
What Amazon did and what it told employees
Amazon (AMZN) shut down an internal AI leaderboard called KiroRank on May 29, which had been tracking AI token usage among employees on the company’s internal Kiro developer platform, according to Business Insider, which confirmed the shutdown with an Amazon spokesperson. The story was first reported by the Financial Times.
More AI:
Dave Treadwell, Amazon’s senior vice president of engineering, addressed the issue directly. “Please don’t use AI just for the sake of using AI,” he told staff. “Use AI to help you solve customer problems, to help you solve business problems, to innovate.”
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the leaderboard had been “deprecated” and said the dashboard was an informal…