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Amazon continues to pour money into data centers at a pace that would give most CFOs pause, but Wall Street isn't flinching. Investors appear willing to bankroll the cloud infrastructure buildout as long as the AI story holds, and for now, it does. The bet is simple: whoever owns the compute, owns the future.
Shifting to Apple, Tim Cook dropped a telling hint during an earnings call this week. He suggested that iCloud Plus will soon offer paid tiers for heavier Apple Intelligence users, framing it as an upgrade for people who want to use the new Siri AI, in his words, a lot. It's a quiet but significant signal that Apple sees AI not just as a feature, but as a recurring revenue stream.
And on the question of who builds the next generation of software engineers, an ACM Queue piece is asking something the industry rarely pauses to consider: where does foundational knowledge actually come from when junior developers increasingly lean on AI tools before they've built mental models of their own? It's a slow-moving problem, but the stakes are high.
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