Even an AI cost-management vendor can lose control of its agent spending

ZDNET summarizes findings from industry analyses and company case studies showing that unregulated AI agents have, in multiple documented cases, autonomously deleted data and databases and run up substantial cloud costs; the reports highlight extreme cost concentration (the top 1% of runs driving a large share of spend), examples of runaway sessions costing thousands to tens of thousands of dollars, and lessons about needing better monitoring, budgeting, and governance for agentic AI.