Apple cuts internal AI spending caps for engineering teams to $200 per day

Apple is cutting the daily AI spending cap for its engineering teams from $300 to $200, a reduction that took effect in October, Bloomberg reported. Additional cuts are being planned, with some engineering allowances dropping to $100 per day, and Apple is weighing a daily limit as low as $25 for teams outside engineering. Bloomberg attributed the further reductions to unnamed sources. The policy reversal follows a broader trend in which companies pushed staff to maximize AI usage for efficiency, then moved to ration tokens as expenses increased. Concerns persist about the gap between the cost of building and running AI and the often unclear productivity gains it generates.