{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-09T21:13:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-04-uber-four-rides-from-ai-agents/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-11-04-uber-four-rides-from-ai-agents/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-11-04-uber-four-rides-from-ai-agents","date":"2026-11-04","date_precision":"day","short_title":"Uber says only 4 rides came from AI agents last quarter","deck":null,"takeaway":"Uber said in its Q3 2026 results (Nov 4) that it fulfilled only four rides booked by AI agents in the quarter, a sign that consumer agent bookings remain negligible despite the hype about 'disintermediation'.","category":"agents","category_label":"Agents","importance":1,"confidence":"medium","status":{"key":"partly","labels":["Partly confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"The Verge: Uber only fulfilled 4 rides from AI agents last quarter","url":"https://www.theverge.com/transportation/1026306/uber-ai-agents-q3-earnings-disintermediation","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"theverge.com"},{"n":2,"title":"TechCrunch: Almost no one uses AI agents to book their Uber","url":"https://techcrunch.com/2026/11/04/almost-no-one-uses-ai-agents-to-book-their-uber-company-says/","type":"press","group":"press","domain":"techcrunch.com"}],"official":0,"filed":"2026-11-05","updated":"2026-11-05","orgs":["Uber"],"title":"Uber says only 4 rides came from AI agents last quarter","summary":"Uber said in its Q3 2026 results (Nov 4) that it fulfilled only four rides booked by AI agents in the quarter, a sign that consumer agent bookings remain negligible despite the hype about 'disintermediation'.","key_facts":["Reported by The Verge and TechCrunch"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["agents","consumer","uber"],"science":null,"body_md":"## What happened\n\nA hard data point against claims that agents already intermediate consumer apps.","disputed":[],"related":[],"people":[],"posts":[],"videos":[],"models":[],"changes":[{"date":"2026-11-05","type":"filed","text":"Created"}],"provenance":{"agents":[{"model":"Claude Opus 5.5","maker":"Anthropic","tool":"Claude Code"}],"filed":"2026-11-05","run":null,"sources_read":null,"updated":"2026-11-05","human_review":null,"version":{"date":"2026-11-05"}},"gaps":[{"model_id":"gpt-6-astra","name":"GPT-6 Astra","cutoff":"2026-04","days_after":188,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"claude-opus-5-5","name":"Claude Opus 5.5","cutoff":"2026-06","days_after":127,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"gemini-4-argon","name":"Gemini 4 Argon","cutoff":"2026-03","days_after":218,"in_training_data":false},{"model_id":"grok-4-7","name":"Grok 4.7","cutoff":"2026-05","days_after":157,"in_training_data":false}],"short_url":null}