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4 articles First covered Apr 18, 2026, latest Aug 10, 2026

Uber spent its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, and the rest of the industry is now metering tokens

Uber's year of AI budget lasted until April. A 15-company survey shows per-developer spend running from $200 to $3,000 a month, and finance has noticed.

A software engineer at a laptop, the kind of AI-assisted coding workflow whose token costs blew through Uber's annual budget.

AI·2 months ago

Uber blew its entire 2026 AI coding budget in four months. Its COO can't prove it paid off.

Uber exhausted its full-year Claude Code budget by April. Adoption hit 84%, heavy users burn $2,000 a month, and COO Andrew Macdonald can't connect the spend to shipped features.

AI·3 months ago

Disney built an AI leaderboard. One employee called Claude 460,000 times in nine days.

Leaked internal Disney screenshots show 4,800 product and tech staff burning 3.1 billion Claude tokens and 13.3 billion Cursor tokens across nine April workdays.

Anysphere founder Michael Truell, the CEO behind the Cursor AI code editor

AI·4 months ago

Cursor wants $50B for an AI editor that's burning cash on individuals

Cursor is in talks to raise $2B at a $50B valuation, nearly double its September mark. Revenue is up, but it's still losing money per indie seat.