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Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts

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Apple Will 'Watch Everything Burn' When the AI Bubble Bursts
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Industry critic Ed Zitron argues that the current economic model for Large Language Models is unsustainable due to high token costs and unproven profitability. He suggests that Apple and other tech giants face significant financial risks if the AI investment bubble bursts.

Memory prices have doubled, Macs and iPads have gone up, and iPhones are expected to follow. Ed Zitron – who writes the Where's Your Ed At newsletter, hosts the Better Offline podcast, and has been described by Politico as the AI boom's most "acerbic gadfly" – has spent years arguing the buildout driving those costs will never pay for itself.

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