Apple has quietly tightened the purse strings on its own use of artificial intelligence. According to Bloomberg, the company lowered the daily AI spending cap for its engineering teams in October, cutting it from $300 to $200 per day, TechCrunch reported. More reductions are reportedly in the pipeline, with some allowances set to fall to $100 a day.
The reported move marks a notable shift for a company that has spent recent years weaving AI into its engineering workflows. Outside the engineering division, Apple is reportedly weighing an internal daily limit as low as $25. TechCrunch said it reached out to Apple for comment, and the company has not publicly confirmed the figures.
Apple internal AI spending caps
The numbers attributed to Bloomberg sketch out a step-by-step pullback rather than a single cut. Each tier applies to a different group or stage of the reported plan, and the sources stress that further reductions are still being discussed internally.
Apple has not confirmed any of these figures, and the reporting is based on people familiar with the matter. That means the exact scope, timing and permanence of the caps remain unverified for now.
- $300 per day: the previous daily AI spending cap for Apple's engineering teams.
- $200 per day: the reduced cap reported in October.
- $100 per day: the level some allowances could reportedly fall to.
- $25 per day: a possible limit for teams outside engineering, per Bloomberg.
