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Amazon deletes devs’ tokenmaxxing leaderboard to minimize costs

ID: 5ee2ca2b-e0b3-592f-8561-b4e9bb5495e2

STIX ID: report--5ee2ca2b-e0b3-592f-8561-b4e9bb5495e2

Feed Name: CIO Security

Date Published: 2026-05-29

Date Updated: 2026-05-30

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Amazon discovered employees were artificially inflating usage metrics for its Kiro AI tool by creating agents to perform unnecessary tasks in order to climb an unofficial leaderboard called Kirorank; the tracker has been taken offline. This report describes internal misuse of an AI-usage metric, not a security breach or cyber attack.

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