Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months. Now its COO is questioning whether it’s worth it
https://fortune.com/2026/05/26/uber-coo-ai-spending-tokens-claude-code/
Matter of time when China will dump cheap LLMs.
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Just look at the leaders that are in charge of AI. Do you think any of them or their minions have any intelligence?
@ay yes kind of like my team’s mandate to increase productivity but not bill time.
Time to make some popcorn and watch the show.
Notice they are starting to throttle tokens here. So am I supposed to use it all the time to be more productive or should I reduce my usage to use fewer tokens.
Yes, they are. Ed Zitron could've told you that four years ago. Will the mo--ns in the C-suite or schart ever admit it? Not a chance. Just 24, then 25, however many quarters to feed us all to the meat grinder for shareholder value.
To me, the goal has always been to use AI to move jobs to India. Don't expect them to hire more people in the US.