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AI spend per employee slumped at top firms in August — summer doldrums or a warning sign?
This suggests hyperscalers expected higher per-employee AI spend than actually materialized, which means either adoption is hitting a plateau or models are becoming cheap faster than new use cases can absorb budget. For builders, cheaper inference is good news for margins. For investors, this is a warning sign that the AI capex story may have priced in more consumption growth than exists.