Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage

In Brief Posted: 5:26 PM PST · November 4, 2026 Image Credits:STR/NurPhoto / Getty Images Lucas Ropek Apple is reportedly cutting budgets for its internal AI usage Apple is cutting the daily amount its engineering teams can spend on AI, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. It’s a big change for a company that has worked to integrate the technology into its engineering processes.

简讯 发布时间：太平洋标准时间 2026 年 11 月 4 日下午 5:26 图片来源：STR/NurPhoto / Getty Images Lucas Ropek 据报道，苹果公司正在削减其内部人工智能的使用预算。据彭博社周三报道，苹果公司正在削减其工程团队每天在人工智能上可花费的金额。对于一家致力于将该技术整合到其工程流程中的公司来说，这是一个巨大的变化。

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. TechCrunch has reached out to Apple for comment.

据该媒体报道，10 月份，苹果公司下调了工程团队的每日人工智能支出上限，从 300 美元降至 200 美元。消息人士告诉彭博社，更多的削减计划正在进行中，一些配额将降至每天 100 美元。据报道，在工程部门之外，苹果公司正在考虑将每日限额降至 25 美元。TechCrunch 已联系苹果公司寻求置评。

Earlier this year, a tsunami of tokenmaxxing 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.

今年早些时候，一股“代币最大化”（tokenmaxxing）浪潮席卷而来，各公司以模糊定义的效率提升为名，推动员工尽可能多地使用人工智能。然而，这种狂热是短暂的，因为随着这些代币的账单到期，各公司决定实行代币配给制可能是一种更理性的财务方法。

Concerns persist about an apparent gap between what AI costs to build and run and the (often unclear) productivity gains the technology is suppose to generate.

人们仍然担心人工智能的构建和运行成本与该技术本应产生的（通常不明确的）生产力收益之间存在明显的差距。