After starting the tokenmaxxing panic, Uber's CTO is back with a very different AI story

Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga Uber A version of this story originally appeared in the BI Tech Memo newsletter. Sign up for the weekly BI Tech Memo newsletter here. Remember the executive who sparked the tokenmaxxing panic earlier this year after saying Uber had already blown through its 2026 budget for Anthropic's Claude Code? He's back with a more interesting lesson about AI. Uber CTO Praveen Neppalli Naga says the company has started sending its best AI engineers into departments like fi...