"Many engineers and product designers inside Apple have pushed for the company to hold on to more of its cash rather than return it, arguing that the money could be better used on major acquisitions, hiring talent, and expanded research and development."

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"Mac Minis have been flying off Apple’s shelves in recent months thanks in part to demand from AI power users for whom it is the must-have computer for private, “always-on” artificial-intelligence agents such as OpenClaw."

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"Whether you talk with engineers, venture capitalists, founders or managers, or with doomers, accelerationists, lefties or libertarians, the so-called San Francisco consensus on the impact of A.I. for workers is bleak."

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