Breaking: ā€œUber COO Andrew Macdonald said he’s not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs.ā€

Note the text at the bottom. Uber blew through its AI ā€œtokenā€ budget for the year in just a few months, and they don’t feel it is working out as well as they might have hoped.

As I wrote last night on X (over 700,000 views already), if enough other companies report the same, the bubble pops. 🫧

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And some companies more or less already are, implicitly if not explicitly.