ai infrastructure costs

Apple can probably keep its AI push profitable in the near term because its pricing power, services margin, supplier leverage, and hybrid on-device/cloud architecture give it more room than most rivals, but rising DRAM, NAND, and AI-infrastructure costs are now a real strategic constraint. The...

Microsoft’s decision to finally quantify how many customers are actually paying for Copilot — a disclosure that showed 15 million paid Microsoft 365 Copilot seats at the end of the company’s most recent quarter — rewired the conversation about AI monetization overnight. The raw number is both an...