{"slug": "quoting-natalie-lung", "title": "Quoting Natalie Lung", "summary": "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 software like Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code, with spending on one tool not affecting the budget for another. The move aims to manage rising costs associated with the rideshare giant’s use of artificial intelligence.", "body_md": "3rd June 2026\n\nThe rideshare giant is limiting all employees to $1,500 in monthly token spending per AI coding tool, an Uber spokesperson said in response to a Bloomberg News inquiry. That means spending on one tool doesn’t have a bearing on the budget for another. The limits, which have been instituted in recent months, only apply to agentic coding software such as Cursor or Anthropic PBC’s Claude Code.\n\n— [Natalie Lung](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/uber-caps-usage-of-ai-tools-like-claude-code-to-cut-costs), Uber Caps Usage of AI Tools Like Claude Code to Manage Costs\n\n## Recent articles\n\n[Claude Opus 4.8: \"a modest but tangible improvement\"](/2026/May/28/claude-opus-4-8/)- 28th May 2026[I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit](/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/)- 27th May 2026[Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI](/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/)- 25th May 2026", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-natalie-lung", "canonical_source": "https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/natalie-lung/#atom-everything", "published_at": "2026-06-03 11:33:22+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-03 11:40:56.458331+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-tools", "ai-policy", "ai-products", "artificial-intelligence", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["Uber", "Natalie Lung", "Bloomberg", "Cursor", "Anthropic", "Claude Code"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-natalie-lung", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-natalie-lung.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-natalie-lung.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/quoting-natalie-lung.jsonld"}}