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Reuters captured a clear fault line: Big Tech's artificial intelligence (AI) investments are producing revenue gains but also very different cost and strategy profiles. Microsoft is selling AI as a business-application engine while Apple is grappling with hardware supply-chain frictions that make AI rollouts more expensive. The clip matters because it shows AI amplifies each company's preexisting strengths and weaknesses, so earnings are less a uniform AI triumph and more a map of who actually benefits first.