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Apple employee AI budgets cut to reduce costs

Employees relying on third-party AI use to perform work at Apple will need to cut back as funding has been reduced by as much as a third for some.

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Apple’s AI funding for external bots has been reduced

Internal artificial intelligence use has become too expensive for many companies, including Apple, as returns for the expenses continue to wane. Apple uses the features for coding assistance, bug hunting, and more, but reliance on these expensive tools is proving costly.

According to a report from Bloomberg, Apple has already cut available funds from $300 to $200 per engineer. Some cuts have even seen cuts down to $100, and yet some still have as little as $25 in AI funding for their projects.

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