Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi Says Company 'Blew' Through Its Annual AI Budget In A Single Quarter, Reports Increased Human Productivity

Badar Shaikh — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:38:53 +0000

Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE:UBER) CEO Dara Khosrowshahi has said that artificial intelligence (AI) applications have boosted productivity and forced the company to slow down hiring.

Uber Blew Through AI Budget In A Quarter

In an interview with investor Patrick O’Shaughnessy on Wednesday, Khosrowshahi was asked how Uber was managing AI spending. “We blew through our AI budget in a quarter, for the whole year essentially,” the Uber CEO said, adding that the spending had forced the ride-hailing company to adjust its hiring goals.

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“We are going to meter headcount increases,” he said, adding that the slowdown was because Uber engineers were “getting much more efficient” and that their productivity had increased.

The CEO then shared how the productivity increase came with a “significant cost,” reiterating that Uber was “metering” the increase in headcount. “My view right ...

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Dara Khosrowshahi Bets On 'Everybody In The Ecosystem' As Uber Prepares For Robotaxi Future, Aims To Power 'Every Ride — No Matter Who's Driving'

Shomik Sen Bhattacharjee — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 05:47:05 +0000

Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE:UBER) CEO Dara Khosrowshahi sees the company shifting from a ride-sharing marketplace dependent on human drivers into an open platform that blends gig workers with third-party autonomous vehicle fleets.

Uber Builds Platform For Every Ride

Khosrowshahi highlighted that strategy Monday on X, praising a Fast Company profile of Uber's autonomous vehicle plans. "Grateful to our @Uber teams who are building the platform for every ride — no matter who's driving," he wrote.

The profile said Uber has moved away from its turbulent effort to build its own self-driving fleet. Under Khosrowshahi, Uber is instead pursuing a multi-billion-dollar strategy to host robotaxis from different manufacturers and technology providers.

Khosrowshahi Bets On Autonomy Ecosystem

"We get to work with everybody in the ecosystem," Khosrowshahi told Fast Company. "We get to see all of the different approaches to autonomy as well. And when you're operating at our scale, doing more than 40 million trips a day, we think the bet that we're making on the ecosystem is the right bet."

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