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Apple cuts engineer AI budgets to $200 a day.
Wren Calloway·The Daily
The richest company on earth is rationing compute. If Apple is sweating the internal API bill, your startup's token bloat is a fatal disease.
Apple has reportedly slashed the daily AI spending limit for some of its own engineers, dropping the cap from $300 down to $200. The internal reduction points to a stark reality that nobody in Cupertino wants to admit out loud: the company's AI expenditures are threatening to blow past their allocated budgets, and leadership is pulling the emergency brake.
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