{"id":237880,"date":"2026-06-26T18:33:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T22:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/could-ai-eventually-make-things-cheaper\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T19:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T23:00:33","slug":"could-ai-eventually-make-things-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/26\/could-ai-eventually-make-things-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"Could AI eventually make things cheaper?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/story\/2026\/06\/26\/could-ai-eventually-make-things-cheaper\">Could AI eventually make things cheaper?<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/story\/2026\/06\/26\/could-ai-eventually-make-things-cheaper\">https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/story\/2026\/06\/26\/could-ai-eventually-make-things-cheaper<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-26 18:33:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.marketplace.org\">www.marketplace.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the article in an unordered list with key points:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Economists have forecasted a probable increase in prices due to AI over the next year.<br \/>\n&#8211; Microsoft and Apple recently announced price hikes for Xbox consoles and select MacBooks\/iPads, driven by a surge in demand for memory and storage for AI data centers.<br \/>\n&#8211; Apple highlighted that this is an unprecedented increase in component prices resulting from rapid expansion.<br \/>\n&#8211; Despite the current rise in prices, there is a long-term expectation that AI will boost productivity and potentially ease inflation.<br \/>\n&#8211; According to Alan Detmeister, once AI aids in increasing productivity, such as lawyers managing more cases, it might lead to lower prices which can benefit consumers.<br \/>\n&#8211; The optimistic scenario relies on the widespread adoption of AI tools and willingness of professionals to adjust prices accordingly.<br \/>\n&#8211; Gil Luria mentions that AI adoption has been slow due to imperfect results when initially used.<br \/>\n&#8211; Margaret O\u2019Mara draws a parallel with the slower than anticipated impact of the digital age in the late 1990s, suggesting that AI could similarly take a significant time to realize full transformative potential.<\/p>\n<p>This summary captures the essential points from the article while respecting all copyright and policy guidelines.<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could AI eventually make things cheaper? https:\/\/www.marketplace.org\/story\/2026\/06\/26\/could-ai-eventually-make-things-cheaper Publish Date: 2026-06-26 18:33:00 Source Domain: www.marketplace.org Here&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":237881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.apmcdn.org\/5b1a0508da5aec916e7ac7cf3d18b76c33602d4b\/widescreen\/1e1f25-20260626-apple-store-2000.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237882,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237880\/revisions\/237882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}