Gina Helfrich

Centre for Technomoral Futures @ U of Edinburgh. PhD in Philosophy, Grad Cert in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Texan. Feminist. I’m on Mastodon and encourage you to be there, too: techpolicy.social/@ginahelfrich

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Uber's COO Says It's Getting Harder to Justify the Money Spent on AI - Business Insider businessinsider.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Uber's COO cannot link 70% AI-generated code or 95% engineer adoption to measurable consumer product improvements.
  • Uber exhausted its entire 2026 Claude Code and Cursor budget within four months of the year starting.
  • Uber joins Microsoft and Duolingo in publicly questioning whether token volume translates to business outcomes.
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social

No really, I am not kidding when I say that the data broker industry must be destroyed: www.npr.org/2026/03/25/n...

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New research from the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner reveals a “minuscule” level of trust in AI and social media companies www.cyberdaily.au/tech/13660-r...

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