Uber exhausted 2026 AI budget

- Uber's CTO reportedly confirmed the company burned through its entire 2026 AI budget in four months, driven largely by rapid internal adoption of Anthropic's Claude Code. - The Startup Fortune report links the runaway spend directly to heavy Claude Code use inside engineering teams and tools. - The episode underscores how quickly model consumption can blow planned budgets without governance and metering. (startupfortune.com)