Ai

Uber burned through its entire 2026 AI coding budget by April after roughly 5,000 engineers pushed token consumption beyond projections, prompting a $1,500 per month per-tool cap. Walmart, Amazon, and Cisco followed with similar controls. A new layer of AI ops tooling is emerging to address the governance gap, from OpenAI's enterprise spend controls to OpenRouter's $113 million raise on the back of 25 trillion tokens routed per week.