Uber gives more than 30,000 staff OpenAI’s ChatGPT Work agent
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Rolling ChatGPT Work out to 30,000 employees, wired into Gmail, Drive, and Slack, is a full-enterprise bet on agentic workflows as a cost-control lever. If you’re about to do the same, lock down data access scopes and define review norms now—otherwise "reining in AI spend" can quietly morph into compliance and data-leak risk.
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