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Uber Exhausts 2026 AI Budget by April as Agentic Costs Surge
Uber's AI team ran out of its 2026 budget by April, highlighting a widespread crisis in agentic AI costs. Forrester reports 22% of agent deployments now show negative ROI due to infrastructure costs exceeding productivity gains. A single agentic task can cost $0.40, and a team of 20 developers may incur $8,000-$16,000 monthly per tool.
Meridian48 take
The article rightly warns that agentic AI's hidden cost multipliers—not per-token pricing—are blowing budgets, but its proposed routing fix may be a band-aid on a systemic pricing problem.
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