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For the last two years, companies across the world have been encouraging employees to use artificial intelligence wherever possible. Write code? Use AI. Draft emails? Use AI. Analyse data? Use AI. But as adoption accelerates, a new problem is beginning to emerge: the bill. The latest example comes from Uber. According to a Bloomberg report, the American company has started limiting employee access to popular AI coding platforms such as Claude Code and Cursor after reportedly exhausting its entire annual AI budget within the first four months of 2026. The move highlights a growing reality that many businesses are now facing. AI may boost productivity, but using it at scale is turning out to be far more expensive than some initially expected.