{"id":675324,"date":"2026-11-05T03:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675324\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T03:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T03:30:08","slug":"apple-is-reportedly-cutting-budgets-for-its-internal-ai-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/675324\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Apple is cutting the daily amount its engineering teams can spend on AI, Bloomberg <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-11-04\/apple-cuts-internal-ai-usage-budgets-in-move-to-reduce-spending?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MzgyMTg3MSwiZXhwIjoxNzk0NDI2NjcxLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTlhPMzdLSzNOWTkwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJDNEVEQ0FFMUZBMDU0MEJFQTI0QTlGMjExQzFFOTA4MCJ9.efg5gZUg_bpWGkDdX9in4eLTEutSs8WX9rD17IHSi_o\" target=\"_blank\">reported<\/a> Wednesday. It\u2019s a big change for a company that has worked <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2025\/06\/19\/apple-exploring-generative-ai-to-boost-chip-development\/\" target=\"_blank\">to integrate<\/a> the technology into its engineering processes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In October, Apple lowered the daily AI spending cap for its engineering teams, decreasing it from $300 to $200, the outlet reported. And more cuts are in the works, with some allowances falling to $100 a day, sources tell Bloomberg. Outside engineering, Apple is reportedly weighing a daily limit as low as $25 a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch has reached out to Apple for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, a <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2026\/04\/17\/tokenmaxxing-is-making-developers-less-productive-than-they-think\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">tsunami of tokenmaxxing<\/a> took hold, with companies pushing staff to use AI as much as possible in the name of vaguely defined efficiency gains. The frenzy was short-lived, however, as bills for said tokens came due, and companies decided that token rationing might be a more fiscally sensible approach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrdive.com\/news\/companies-are-not-saving-money-with-ai\/873110\/\" target=\"_blank\">Concerns persist<\/a> about an apparent gap between what AI costs to build and run and the (often unclear) productivity gains the technology is suppose to generate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apple is cutting the daily amount its engineering teams can spend on AI, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. It\u2019s a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-675324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}