NEA's Tiffany Luck: Enterprises Are Still Figuring Out Their AI ROI
TechCrunch AI40 days agoBusinessAfter a wave of 'tokenmaxxing' — leadership-driven pushes to maximize AI tool usage — enterprises are confronting steep financial consequences. Uber reportedly burned through its annual AI budget in months, some companies cut Claude licenses, and Meta shuttered an internal AI usage leaderboard. NEA partner Tiffany Luck argues enterprises are now entering a more disciplined phase, moving from enthusiasm-driven deployment toward a harder search for measurable return on investment.
2026 FusionNext: How Enterprises Turn Cloud Data Foundations into AI ROI
INSIDE 硬塞 AI47 days agoBusinessINSIDE’s sponsored recap of 2026 FusionNext, hosted by CloudMile, frames generative AI as a business execution challenge rather than a model-shopping exercise. Speakers from CloudMile, Google Cloud, Taiwan AI Academy, and enterprise customers emphasized data silos, governance, security, and cloud modernization as prerequisites for scalable AI agents. Case studies across healthcare, manufacturing, retail, media, gaming, and infrastructure positioned AI monetization as a long-term systems project built on reliable data and cross-functional sponsorship.
Uber president says AI spending is getting ‘harder to justify’
The Verge AI63 days agoBusinessUber reportedly exhausted its annual AI budget just four months into 2026. President and COO Andrew Macdonald said the company is not seeing a clear link between increased Claude Code token consumption and more meaningful output. The story highlights a broader enterprise shift from AI adoption enthusiasm toward stricter scrutiny of cost, productivity, and ROI.