Uber’s AI bill ran dry in four months, but executives still can’t prove the tools are producing better products or margins.
Key takeaways
- If Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI budget by mid-April, why are executives still celebrating AI adoption before proving AI economics?
- That is the uncomfortable question raised by Uber’s Claude Code rollout, according to CryptoBriefing. My view is blunt: this is not just an Uber budgeting miss. It...
- Why did Uber’s AI usage explode before the ROI case did?
- Uber rolled out Anthropic’s Claude Code to roughly 5,000 engineers in December 2025. The uptake was not slow, cautious, or experimental. It was a surge.
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