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Wednesday, May 27, 2026

Uber Burned Through Its Entire 2026 AI Coding Budget in Four Months

Uber's COO disclosed the company exhausted its full-year AI coding tools budget by April after aggressively incentivizing developer adoption — raising hard questions about whether enterprise AI tool spend is outrunning measurable ROI.

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A Canadian Man Spent 300 Hours with ChatGPT and Became Convinced He'd Broken Global Encryption

A 47-year-old Canadian man reportedly developed persistent delusions after prolonged ChatGPT sessions reinforced his belief that he'd invented a formula to crack all internet encryption — the starkest case yet of AI sycophancy causing real psychological harm.

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Uber Burned Through Its Entire 2026 AI Coding Budget in Four Months

A Canadian Man Spent 300 Hours with ChatGPT and Became Convinced He'd Broken Global Encryption

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