The link you posted does not support your conclusion at all.

There have been rumors of Cook retiring for the past five years, at least, and I’m pretty sure that shareholders are quite happy with Apple market cap at almost $4 trillion.

It has nothing to do with AI.

AI is a non essential tool. Anything that a chatbot produces, can and should be achievable by a human with access to the same sources of information. Anyone hired to do a specialist job, who cannot perform without access to AI, should be summarily fired because their output would be indistinguishable from that of their LLM of choice.

In contrast, the Internet (as massive interconnected network), computers, even books, enable humans to deal with information in ways impossible to achieve without them, and help augment us. Reading feeds your brain. Computers are a window to creativity. AI does nothing of the sort, in fact I believe it does the opposite, pushing us to outsource our thinking processes while making us feel smart, undeservedly.

There are no reputable sources for this.