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Applied AI

Uber CTO Shows How Claude Code Can Blow Up AI Budgets

By Laura Bratton · Apr 14, 2026 10:33am PDT · 3 comments
Uber’s surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code, has maxed out its full year AI budget just a few months into 2026, according to chief technology officer Praveen Neppalli Naga.“I'm back to the drawing board because the budget I thought I would need is blown away already,” Neppalli Naga said in an interview.Neppalli... Uber’s surging use of AI coding tools, particularly Anthropic’s Claude Code, has maxed out its...
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Artificial Intelligence

Rise of the Cursor Resistance: Why Some Techies Want to Ignore AI Coding Tools

By Rocket Drew · Oct 11, 2025 6:00am PDT · 28 comments
Over the summer, two software engineers at Mixus, a San Francisco–based artificial intelligence startup, staged a bit of a rebellion by refusing to follow instructions to rely heavily on Cursor or any of the other popular new coding-assistance software. They figured “they could do better than Cursor,” said an incredulous Shai Magzimof,... Over the summer, two software engineers at Mixus, a San Francisco–based artificial...
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Applied AI

Anthropic Says Its AI Can Clone Enterprise Apps Like Slack

By Aaron Holmes and Kevin McLaughlin · Oct 2, 2025 10:30am PDT · 2 comments
When AI coding tools came into vogue in 2023 and 2024, chief information officers salivated at the idea of using them to develop their own versions of Salesforce and Slack and stop paying a fortune for enterprise apps. But the AI wasn’t accurate or consistent enough to do that.Now Anthropic is reawakening these app-replacement dreams. In a... When AI coding tools came into vogue in 2023 and 2024, chief information officers salivated at...
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AI Agenda

Google Pitches Its AI Coding Tools as the Cost-Effective Option

By Erin Woo · May 20, 2026 7:00am PDT
Google came into its flagship developer conference, Google I/O, on Tuesday with a big question to answer: Does it have a counter to Anthropic’s dominance in coding?The takeaway, after a sweltering day in Mountain View, Calif.: Google wants to redefine the competition. Google didn’t release a new “pro” version of its flagship model, Gemini, to... Google came into its flagship developer conference, Google I/O, on Tuesday with a big question to...
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AI Agenda

Revenue From AI Coding Tools Surpasses $3.1 Billion

By Stephanie Palazzolo · Nov 25, 2025 7:00am PST · 1 comment
There’s been a lot of talk that AI tools have yet to prove their worth. But if revenue is anything to go by, there's one area where AI tools have undoubtedly provided real returns: software engineering.The collective revenue generated from AI coding tools like Anysphere’s Cursor and Anthropic’s Claude Code has surpassed $3.1 billion. This... There’s been a lot of talk that AI tools have yet to prove their worth. But if revenue is...