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The Information reported August 30 that Apple moved its Mac announcement out of its usual October/November window on unexpected enterprise AI hardware demand, with mini and Studio configurations out of stock for months on memory shortages (MacRumors). Follow-up reporting puts OpenAI's purchases at tens of thousands of headless machines used for reinforcement learning and training computer-use agents, each hosting an isolated desktop for trajectory collection and task verification. Apple has no dedicated business or developer relations team for this and turned down enterprise requests for Private Cloud Compute access.
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