Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

All this artificial intelligence spending was showing no noticeable increase in productivity, Uber’s chief operating officer says.

Uber's cutback has occurred after the company had reportedly encouraged staff to use AI as much as possible.

Uber has implemented internal AI usage caps after exceeding its allocated budget in just four months, highlighting the rising costs of artificial intelligence for companies.

Ride-hailing company sets monthly usage caps for programming staff, after exceeding its annual budget for the tech earlier this year

The limits apply to agentic coding platforms such as Anthropic’s Claude Code and Cursor...