Applied Materials Will Double Sales, Not Headcount, Thanks to AI
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A major industrial saying it can double revenue with flat headcount is the clearest signal yet that AI is being treated as labor leverage, not just tooling. If you run a scaled operation, your investors will start asking why your opex curve doesn’t look like this over the next few years.
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