Apple Reduces Daily Budget for AI Use for Employees, with Some Engineers' Budget Cap Dropped to $200. According to Bloomberg, sources familiar with the matter revealed that Apple quietly reduced the daily budget cap for some engineers using AI models from $300 to $200 last month, and plans to further reduce it to $100 for some engineering teams. Many teams outside the engineering department already have a daily cap of $100, with some potentially dropping to $25. Employees requiring higher caps can apply for waivers from senior management. Apple declined to comment. The report states that Apple employees can use AI services such as Anthropic's Claude, OpenAI's ChatGPT, and Google's Gemini. Companies like Microsoft, Tesla, and Meta are also tightening their internal AI spending.