Apple cuts engineers’ daily AI budgets as it reins in spending
THE SO WHAT
Cutting internal AI token budgets from $300 to $200 per engineer—and signaling more cuts—shows even cash-rich players are treating inference as a line item to optimize. If your org’s AI usage is effectively unlimited today, expect CFO pressure to meter, cache, and right-size model calls sooner than you think.
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