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Capital allocation versus AI investment — Clarity Today

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Capital allocation versus AI investment

The trade-off between returning cash through buybacks and funding an AI buildout, as framed for Apple's incoming CEO.

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Apple's next CEO inherits a 10-to-1 gap in AI capital spending

Cook's restraint on AI spending reads as discipline in the returns and as arrears in the capex tables. Ternus has to pick a reading, and shareholders fund whichever one he picks.

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Adoption34
Hype gap+14
Incentives62

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