AI Bills Up 320% Despite 98% Price Drop: The $7M Budget Trap
Token prices fell 98%, yet enterprise AI budgets tripled to $7M. Agentic AI consumption exploded 18.6x—and CFOs are scrambling for answers.
June 6, 2026 · 8 min readBudget Management
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Uber Blew Its 2026 AI Budget in 4 Months—What Went Wrong
Uber burned its entire 2026 AI budget in 4 months as Claude Code adoption hit 84%. Monthly costs jumped to $2K per engineer. Here's why budgets are breaking.
May 22, 2026 · 10 min read