🍭 Apple’s Chip Crown Cracks 🍎

Good morning. Apple woke up and realized it’s no longer the teacher’s favorite.

Let’s dive in 👇

🍭 What’s Cookin’:

• Apple loses its VIP chip pass at TSMC

• AI builds a jet while humans argue over the manual

• Lawsuits, earnings, and regulators circling AI like sharks

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Apple’s
🍎 Chip Privilege Just Expired

The Bite:
For years, Apple got special treatment from TSMC:

• first dibs on cutting-edge chips,

• sweetheart pricing,

• and quiet flexibility no one else enjoyed.

That era is over.

According to Cult of Mac, TSMC has ended Apple’s preferential deal, putting it on the same footing as everyone else fighting for advanced chips.

This isn’t about one contract. It’s about leverage.
And Apple doesn’t have as much as it used to.

The same company that is now asking Google for help with AI is also losing its lock on the world’s most important chipmaker.

The myth of Apple as untouchable is slowly, but visibly cracking.

Snacks:

• Apple no longer gets exclusive manufacturing advantages from TSMC

• Priority access to the newest nodes is now driven by who needs AI compute most

• TSMC is flooded with demand from Nvidia, AMD, and data center builders

• Apple still ships massive volumes, but consumer hardware isn’t the top priority anymore

• This comes as Apple leans on external partners to shore up its AI gaps

Why it Bites:
Apple built its modern dominance on control: the stack, the silicon, the schedule.

Losing special access to TSMC weakens that control at the exact moment compute scarcity matters most.

AI is soaking up chips faster than iPhones ever could.
And TSMC is optimizing for whoever pushes the frontier forward.

Once the world sees you negotiating instead of commanding, the power dynamic has already changed.

I mean, Apple will be fine. But it’s no longer dictating terms.

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Davos
🤖 AI Built a Jet And Humans Are Still Reading the Manual

The Bite:
At Davos, OpenAI warned about something called a “capability overhang.”

Plain English: today’s AI systems can do far more than society is actually using, or even ready to handle.

The tools are advancing fast. People, companies, and institutions are not.

This isn’t sci-fi panic.
It’s insiders admitting the gap between AI power and real-world adoption.

And yes, the company saying this is OpenAI: one of the groups that built the plane in the first place.

Snacks:

• AI models are improving faster than organizations can deploy them responsibly

• Most companies still use AI for shallow tasks despite much deeper capabilities

• Governments and institutions move far slower than model development cycles

• OpenAI says the risk isn’t runaway AI, but misuse, underuse, and uneven access

• The same gap also creates a massive opportunity for “AI adoption” services

Why it bites:
This sounds like a warning. It’s also a tell.

When AI builders say society can’t keep up, they’re not just flagging risk.
They’re pointing at a market they’ll likely step in to control.

Training, guardrails, enterprise tools, governance layers…

Someone will sell the bridge between raw capability and usable power.
And who is best positioned to do that? The ones who built the models.

So yes, this is about safety. But it’s also about leverage.

You built the jet. Now you’re selling flight school and air traffic control.

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🧠 You Need to Know

⚖️ xAI Sued Over Alleged Explicit Grok Images And Then Sues Back
→ Ashley St. Clair sued xAI over alleged nonconsensual sexual images generated by Grok, while xAI countersued to force the case into Texas courts.

💰 Big Tech Earnings Put AI Spending Under the Microscope
→ Massive AI capex, data-center buildouts, and a global memory shortage collide as investors watch earnings from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Nvidia.

🍎 Apple’s Preferential Chip Deal With TSMC Comes to an End
→ Apple’s long-standing “sweetheart” manufacturing arrangement with TSMC has reportedly ended, signaling shifts in chip supply strategy.

🤖 OpenAI Warns of a “Capability Overhang” at Davos
→ OpenAI says model capabilities are outpacing real-world use, raising concerns about misuse and uneven access as AI power accelerates.

📃 South Korea Moves to Regulate AI Like the EU
→ South Korea passed new AI safety rules modeled on the EU framework, targeting high-risk and generative AI with transparency and human-oversight requirements.