Uber has imposed a $1,500 monthly spending cap per employee on AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and Cursor after the rideshare giant exhausted its entire annual AI budget within four month…
Mercor CEO Brendan Foody said his startup now spends more on AI tokens for internal agents than on employee salaries, marking a shift in corporate spending priorities. The $10 billion company, which h…
Alphabet announced an $80 billion equity raise, including a $10 billion investment from Berkshire Hathaway, to fund AI infrastructure and data center expansion. The move signals that major tech firms …
Union City Councilmember Scott Sakakihara, a former Palantir executive, has received over $3 million in support from political action committees tied to Uber, Meta, and tech billionaires Chris Larsen …
A senior executive at a major public tech company told the author that nearly all of her 1,000 engineers use Claude Code, yet individual productivity gains are not translating into proportional organi…
A company that cannot be named spent $500 million in a single month on Anthropic's Claude API due to a missing spending limit, while Uber exhausted its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April and Micros…
Corporate leaders are scaling back AI token usage after realizing the massive costs of unchecked computing power, with Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi stating it is "getting harder to justify" AI initiativ…
Developers are refusing to work without AI tools, even for research studies, but evidence from Amazon, Uber, and independent researchers shows that AI-assisted coding may actually slow developers down…
Companies are failing to achieve meaningful returns on AI investment because employees delegate only minor tasks to AI instead of using it to solve complex, high-stakes problems, according to an exper…
Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months, with COO Andrew Macdonald unable to link the spending to tangible user features, as AI leaders Dario Amodei and Sam Altman backtrac…
Uber exhausted its full 2026 artificial intelligence budget by April after rapidly deploying Anthropic's Claude Code to thousands of engineers, with monthly per-engineer costs ranging from $150 to $25…
Uber has partnered with hospitality property management service Mews to embed ride booking, real-time tracking, and integrated billing directly into the platform used by 15,000 hotels globally. The in…
Quanton has launched a high-performance compute engine for Apache Spark that delivers faster execution through SIMD-vectorized processing and storage-aware planning, with no migration or code rewrites…
Shift, an AI training startup, announced Thursday it is offering free home cleanings in New York City in exchange for allowing cleaners to record first-person footage with head-mounted cameras. The co…
CIOs are growing concerned that their AI budgets are maxing out without clear returns, as Uber COO Andrew Macdonald said the company has yet to see direct productivity gains from its spending. OpenAI …
Microsoft canceled most of its internal Claude Code licenses due to cost overruns, redirecting engineering teams to its own GitHub Copilot. Uber depleted its annual AI coding budget in four months, wi…
An unnamed company received a roughly $500 million monthly bill for Claude AI usage after failing to set usage limits on employee licenses, according to an AI consultant cited by Axios and reported by…
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has reversed his previous warnings that artificial intelligence would "probably replace most of the jobs people do today," now saying he was "pretty wrong" about an AI jobs apoca…
Coding agents achieved product-market fit in April 2026, as evidenced by Anthropic approaching its first profitable quarter and OpenAI locking all enterprise customers into full API pricing. The shift…
Lisa Lin, a 33-year-old non-technical operations professional and new mother, used the AI app builder Lovable to create Nutribabe, a nutrition app that provides daily checklists for introducing solid …