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 ...

Uber Boss Can’t Tell If The AI Was Worth It After Blowing 2026 Token Budget In Just Four Months

After years of telling investors and customers that AI was the future, one tech giant leader is sounding a lot less sure ...

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

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

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.

Uber COO Andrew Macdonald says AI 'tokenmaxxing' is becoming harder to justify

Tech giants like Uber are rethinking their massive AI investments. Concerns are rising over high costs and the difficulty in ...

Uber finds AI investments increasingly difficult to justify

According to its statements, Uber already used up its AI budget for 2026. However, it is unclear whether this has resulted in ...
AOL

Uber CTO says it's going big on AI coding: 'This is a real reset moment for engineering'

Uber used software to change how people catch a ride. Now it's using AI to change how it creates software. Praveen Neppalli Naga, the CTO of Uber, said in a LinkedIn post this week that 95% of its ...
NewsBytes

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 ...

AI promised cost savings, but Microsoft and Uber say it’s costing more than human workers

Microsoft has cancelled most of its Claude Code licences and Uber burned through its 2026 AI budget in four months. New data ...