Fortune reported that heavy internal use of AI tools is driving unexpectedly high costs.
The report cited The Verge as saying Microsoft has begun canceling most direct Claude Code licenses and steering engineers toward GitHub Copilot CLI.
The article cited Uber’s CTO as saying Uber burned through its 2026 AI coding tools budget in four months after incentivizing usage via leaderboards.
Fortune reported forecasts that agentic AI increases token consumption. It also reported Gartner’s view that even as per-token costs fall, agentic workloads can drive higher aggregate enterprise inference spend because token usage per task is higher.
Source: Fortune