New Delhi, May 30 -- The tech giant deprecated its employee-built "KiroRank" ranking system after concluding it was pushing staff to inflate AI activity rather than solve genuine business problems, as major corporations across Silicon Valley begin reassessing the true value of runaway AI spending.

Amazon has shut down an employee-created artificial intelligence leaderboard that tracked token consumption across its workforce, after a senior executive issued a direct warning to staff against using AI technology merely to improve their standing on a dashboard rather than to address real business challenges.

The internal ranking tool, known as "KiroRank," was created informally by a group of Amazon employees and had been tracking AI token u...