Uber Technologies Inc. has set usage caps on some artificial intelligence-powered tools used by its staff, a move meant to manage costs after the company blew through its AI budget earlier this year. <\/p>\n
The 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\u2019t 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\u2019s Claude Code. <\/p>\n
Every employee has a dashboard where they can track their usage across various tools. The company has also implemented a process by which individuals can seek permission to exceed their normal cap. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe think this is all a pretty straightforward way to responsibly encourage agentic AI adoption and experimentation at scale across the company,\u201d the spokesperson said.<\/p>\n
The limits, which have not been reported, come in response to Uber\u2019s growing embrace of AI tools internally. Chief Technology Officer Praveen Neppalli Naga told the Information in April that the company had already maxed out its full-year AI budget. Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said last month that about 10% of the company\u2019s code was submitted and built by AI agents, and that the legal and marketing teams have seen an uptick in usage. <\/p>\n
Beyond Uber, other companies in different sectors are toeing a line between seeking a productivity boost from AI tools while trying to rein in associated costs. Uber said last month that it will moderate the overall pace of hiring relative to its plans entering the year, as a result of the benefits from using AI internally. <\/p>\n
Still, it remains to be seen whether leaning into AI tools is translating into more new features for Uber\u2019s customers, according to Chief Operating Officer Andrew Macdonald. \u201cIt\u2019s very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and \u2018OK, now we\u2019re actually producing like 25% more useful consumer features,\u2019\u201d he said on the Rapid Response podcast last month.<\/p>\n
\u201cOver the coming quarters and years, maybe that will become clearer, but I think today it\u2019s hard even if some of the underlying metrics are trending in a really astronomical direction,\u201d he said on the program.<\/p>\n
Lung writes for Bloomberg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Uber Technologies Inc. has set usage caps on some artificial intelligence-powered tools used by its staff, a move…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,34504,8350,1479,25,14809,2798,532,13004,2515,16420,34505,25434,5411,34503,34502,573],"class_list":["post-59629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-ai-budget","tag-ai-coding-tool","tag-anthropic-pbc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-budget","tag-claude-code","tag-company","tag-cost","tag-employee","tag-last-month","tag-limit","tag-response","tag-uber","tag-uber-spokesperson","tag-usage-cap","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}