Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI
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AI has always been about, smart man plus AI combo. This combo works better if you are AI heavy on tasks. And apparently, uber learnt it the hard way. Their COO is basically saying the AI spending hype inside big tech isn’t clearly paying off yet Andrew Macdonald said Uber is burning through a lot of money on AI tools and “tokens” (the computing units behind models like Claude), and even blew its 2026 budget early He said if engineers are using AI doesn’t mean Uber is shipping better or useful features at the same rate.