CBC: Last month, Uber acknowledged it had spent its entire 2026 AI budget in the first four months of the year, with the company’s COO saying it was becoming “harder to justify” internal AI costs. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said earlier this month that AI costs have become a “huge issue” for its customers.
And it’s not just the big players. At a recent conference, leaders from Canadian startups said they’re feeling the costs of growing internal AI expenses, Betakit reports…