Uber is eliminating 23% of positions in its People and Places division, the unit responsible for human resources, recruitment, and workplace facilities, under newly promoted president Jill Hazelbaker.…
Uber is laying off nearly a quarter of its People and Places staff, which includes human resources and recruitment teams, affecting less than 1% of its global workforce of 34,000 employees. The compan…
Uber has implemented a $1,500 monthly token spending limit per AI coding tool for all employees, capping usage of agentic software like Cursor and Claude Code after the company blew its 2026 AI budget…
Uber has capped employee usage of AI coding tools like Cursor and Anthropic's Claude Code at $1,500 in monthly token spending per tool, a company spokesperson confirmed. The limit, implemented in rece…
Uber has capped employee spending on agentic AI coding tools at $1,500 per month per tool, a company spokesperson confirmed to Bloomberg News. The limits, implemented in recent months, apply to softwa…
Uber has capped employee spending on AI tools like Claude Code to control rising costs. The ride-hailing company implemented the spending limits as it seeks to manage expenses associated with widespre…
Mozilla Chief Technology Officer Raffi Krikorian argues the central question in AI policy is whether the technology remains something users control or something they lease from a handful of companies.…
Microsoft added average token usage to a model release card yesterday, introducing a new dual benchmark that measures both performance and cost. The metric shows Microsoft's model achieving a 71.6 SWE…
A developer has published a method to run Claude Code for free by pointing the agentic coding tool at local models or free cloud endpoints instead of paid subscriptions. The approach uses shell script…
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 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…