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Lyft CEO David Risher discusses the company's turnaround, profitability, competition with Uber, and plans for autonomous vehicles, positioning Lyft as the 'good Uber.'

Uber's Chief Product Officer Sachin Kansal discusses the company's expansion into hotel bookings, financial services for drivers, and autonomous vehicle data collection via AV Labs, while clarifying Uber's strategy to avoid becoming an everything app.

Hackney is a mobile app that compares prices and wait times across Uber, Lyft, Waymo, and other ride-hailing services, allowing users to book directly with the cheapest provider.

Uber is lobbying lawmakers to adopt regulations that would require robotaxi services to operate on hybrid human-robot networks, potentially forcing autonomous vehicle developers like Waymo and Tesla to use Uber's platform instead of their own apps, as seen in a proposed New Jersey bill.

An AI developer built a full-stack app using @ManusAI and @ElevenLabs that generates a custom 60-second song from a passenger's name in seconds, inspired by a viral Uber driver AI song.

A detailed thread recounts the career of Joe Sullivan from federal prosecutor to Uber's CSO and his felony charge, his time at Cloudflare, and the importance of radical transparency in security.

A commentator notes that AI is in a messy middle phase where usage appears productive but costs are high, citing a Forbes article that AI costs more than the workers it replaced, with examples from Uber and Microsoft.

Uber is dropping PagerDuty after 12+ years due to reliability issues in alerting, highlighting the importance of reliability for infrastructure tools.

Uber has opened an interest list for riders to be among the first to hail Wayve's autonomous vehicles in London, with the service launching later this year in a phased rollout.

Nvidia's VP states compute costs now exceed employee costs for his team; Uber confirms by exhausting its 2026 AI coding budget by April due to high token costs.

Uber is limiting employee token spending to $1,500 per month per AI coding tool, revealing real-world pricing and value assessment for AI assistance in software engineering.

Uber is capping employee spending on AI coding tools like Claude Code to $1,500 per tool per month to manage costs after reportedly blowing its 2026 AI budget early. The policy highlights the growing expense of agentic coding software.

Uber is capping employee spending on AI coding tools like Cursor and Claude Code at $1,500 per month per tool to manage costs, as reported by Bloomberg's Natalie Lung.

Uber has implemented a monthly $1,500 cap per employee on AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor after exceeding its annual AI budget in just four months, highlighting growing AI cost concerns and ROI questions across the tech industry.

Uber's annual Lost and Found Index now includes robotaxis for the first time, revealing a range of strange items left behind by passengers, from dentures to a bowling ball, and detailing the return process managed by Uber's new Autonomous Solutions program.

Uber consumed its entire $3.4 billion AI budget for 2026 in just four months after giving engineers unrestricted access to Claude, raising speculation about hidden token relay stations.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi states 90% of Uber engineers use AI, with top 30% seeing unprecedented productivity gains, and predicts that within 5 years, the ROI of AI agents and GPUs will surpass that of human engineers.

Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi says AI is creating 'employees with superpowers,' leading to slower hiring as AI boosts productivity, countering claims that AI lacks ROI.

Uber's CEO and COO express caution about AI spending, noting that increased AI usage does not clearly translate to better customer outcomes, leading to slowed hiring and tighter budget controls.

Microsoft and Uber are finding that AI coding tools, while boosting productivity, are driving up token consumption costs, sometimes exceeding the cost of human labor. The article explores the economic paradox and warns that cheaper tokens per unit do not lead to lower total bills due to surging usage.