Your Daily Gist — April 17, 2026

Hi Quai, welcome to Daily Gist — your newsletters, distilled into conversation! Apple’s $599 laptop is an instant sell-out, but Uber has already blown through its entire 2026 AI budget—welcome to a very expensive, very fast-moving week in the gist. The Uber figure is the one that actually stops the clock. We are talking about $2,000 per engineer, per year, specifically on AI tools. If you scale that across a workforce of their size, they aren't just buying software; t