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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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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.
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newsbytesapp.com
Microsoft, Uber find AI tools more expensive than expected
Microsoft and Uber reveal that AI tools, initially expected to reduce expenses, are proving more costly than human labor due to operational challenges.
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theverge.com
Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’
There’s no clear connection between AI usage and productivity.
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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.
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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.
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timesofindia.indiatimes.com
Uber COO Andrew Macdonald says AI 'tokenmaxxing' is becoming harder to justify
The race to integrate artificial intelligence into the workplace has become one of the most significant trends in the technology industry. The incorporation of AI technology has…
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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
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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.”
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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.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.
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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.
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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…
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Uber COO Andrew Macdonald says: Use of Claude Code and ChatGPT has increased productivity by 25%, but sees no direct link as yet to them…
Uber’s chief operating officer Andrew Macdonald says the company’s use of AI coding assistants like Calude Code and ChatGPT has increased the internal productivity by about 25%,…
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washingtonexaminer.com
Growing AI costs fuel wider doubts about large-scale automation
Microsoft and Uber are reportedly scaling back their usage of Anthropic's Claude Code tool after the costs became too high.
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heise.de
Uber hat Token-Jahresbudget bereits aufgebraucht
Uber hat laut eigener Aussage sein KI-Budget für 2026 bereits aufgebraucht. Doch ob daraus ein nennenswerter Mehrgewinn entstanden ist, sei unklar.
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Silicon Valley is spending billions on AI tokens and nobody can agree if it's working
Uber COO Andrew Macdonald criticizes tokenmaxxing amid rising AI costs and limited productivity, sparking debate in Silicon Valley.
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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.
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zerohedge.com
From Singularity To Tokenomics: The AI Narrative Just Hit A Serious Snag
A new dynamic has emerged in the AI thesis that deserves serious consideration...
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axios.com
Corporate America enters its AI reckoning
Companies begin to question the payoffs of toxenmaxxing.
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hvg.hu
Egyre nehezebb az Uber elnöke szerint megmagyarázni, miért költenek annyit az AI-ra
Az Uber már most elköltötte az egész éves AI-fejlesztési keretét, és a cég vezetője szerint nem nagyon lehet bizonyítani, hogy ez javította volna a felhasználói élményt.