Autonomous trucking startup Gatik raised $200M, two months after striking a multi-year commercial agreement with PepsiCo, bringing its total funding to ~$500M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)

Apple launched a Mac mini with a 2 nm M6 chip and an M5 Pro version, offering up to four-times faster AI, double graphics speed, and improved storage and connectivity; prices start at $899 for M6 and $1,699 for M5 Pro. The refreshed Mac Studio uses the M5 Ultra, a quad-die 3 nm processor with up to a 36-core CPU, 80-core GPU, 4.4 TB/s inter-die bandwidth, and starts at $2,499, while the top-end M5 Ultra model costs $5,499.