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Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’

There’s no clear connection between AI usage and productivity.

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theverge.comStai leggendo1 mesi fa

Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’

There’s no clear connection between AI usage and productivity.

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lunedì 25 maggio 2026·businessinsider.com
Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing
Operations chief Andrew Macdonald said he's not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs within Uber.
lunedì 25 maggio 2026·cleantechnica.com
Uber: Getting Hard to Justify High AI Costs - CleanTechnica
Support CleanTechnica's work through a Substack subscription or on Stripe. Uh, oh. Did someone just poke the bubble? AI is apparently the 8th wonder of the world. It will bring…

1 mesi fa

AI Investment Is 'Harder to Justify' as Productivity Returns Lag, Uber COO Says

The productivity returns and the financial commitments are not correlating yet, according to Uber COO.

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cryptobriefing.com1 mesi fa

Uber questions AI spending effectiveness as budget runs dry four months into 2026

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by mid-April and now says it can't link surging AI tool usage to better consumer features. Here's why it matters.

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fortune.com1 mesi fa

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it's worth…

The rideshare giant's COO says “it’s very hard to draw a line” between rising AI costs and useful features for customers.

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businessinsider.com1 mesi fa

Uber's COO says it's getting harder to justify the money spent on AI tokenmaxxing

Uber's COO says higher AI token consumption hasn't translated into more consumer features, after the CTO exhausted the company's 2026 Claude Code budget. Uber is slowing hiring to offset AI costs — a warning that tokenmaxxing ROI will face harder board-level scrutiny.

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qz.com1 mesi fa

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald says AI spending hard to justify

Andrew Macdonald said rising token costs from Claude Code aren't translating into more consumer features, while the company has already burned through its 2026 AI budget

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martedì 26 maggio 2026·

theverge.com

Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’

There’s no clear connection between AI usage and productivity.

martedì 26 maggio 2026·

cryptobriefing.com

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by April, now questions whether it was worth it

Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI budget by April despite 95% engineer adoption. Leadership questions whether rising AI spending delivers real consumer value.

martedì 26 maggio 2026·

tomshardware.com

Uber chief warns no link yet between AI tokenmaxxing and shipping successful products — company pumps the brakes on all-out AI spending

Uber CTO previously noted that the Claude Code budget for the entirety of 2026 had been spent by April.

martedì 26 maggio 2026·

qz.com

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald says AI spending hard to justify

Andrew Macdonald said rising token costs from Claude Code aren't translating into more consumer features, while the company has already burned through its 2026 AI budget

martedì 26 maggio 2026·

garymarcus.substack.com

If enough other companies report the same, the bubble pops. 🫧

Breaking: “Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said he’s not seeing proportional productivity gains from increasing AI costs.”

martedì 26 maggio 2026·

cryptobriefing.com

Uber questions AI spending effectiveness as budget runs dry four months into 2026

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by mid-April and now says it can't link surging AI tool usage to better consumer features. Here's why it matters.

martedì 26 maggio 2026·

fortune.com

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it's worth it | Fortune

The rideshare giant's COO says “it’s very hard to draw a line” between rising AI costs and useful features for customers.

martedì 26 maggio 2026·

gizmodo.com

AI Investment Is 'Harder to Justify' as Productivity Returns Lag, Uber COO Says

The productivity returns and the financial commitments are not correlating yet, according to Uber COO.

martedì 26 maggio 2026·

theinformation.com

Uber COO Says AI Lacks ROI

Many corporate leaders say they’re getting value from AI as their spending on it skyrockets, but hype is outpacing reality in plenty of cases.On a podcast over the weekend, for…

mercoledì 27 maggio 2026·

tomshardware.com

AI costs begin to bite as agents may increase token demand by 24 times, says Goldman Sachs report — Uber and Microsoft among companies…

Microsoft and Uber are both considering refining their AI strategies as costs mount.

giovedì 28 maggio 2026·

axios.com

Corporate America enters its AI reckoning

Companies begin to question the payoffs of toxenmaxxing.

giovedì 28 maggio 2026·

ynetnews.com

AI’s hidden bill comes due as companies question whether more tokens mean better products

As Uber and Microsoft reassess heavy AI use, rising token bills are forcing tech companies to ask whether agentic tools are delivering enough value to justify their cost

giovedì 28 maggio 2026·

techspot.com

Uber is spending heavily on AI, but returns remain elusive

Uber has increasingly positioned AI as a core part of its technology stack, and AI models now represent a significant portion of its corporate spending. Costs are...

venerdì 29 maggio 2026·

cryptobriefing.com

Corporate America starts to ration AI as costs soar beyond expectations

Microsoft cancels Claude Code licenses, Uber burns through its AI budget in four months, and one client spent $500M in a month. Corporate AI rationing is here.

venerdì 29 maggio 2026·

businessinsider.com

What smart people are saying about AI ROI crunch: 'Where's the revenue?'

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald gave voice to the growing concerns that, despite spending big on AI, companies aren't seeing meaningful returns.