A look at China's push to automate manufacturing, which employs 120 million people, amid a shrinking population and aging workforce, raising job loss concerns (Laura Bicker/BBC)

Apple unveiled a Mac mini with a 2 nm M6 chip, a 12-core CPU/GPU, up to 32 GB unified memory, and claims the fastest single-threaded performance, AI speeds four times faster, and storage/graphics up to twice as fast, starting at $899. It also released a Mac Studio offering M5 Max and M5 Ultra models, delivering up to 4.3× faster AI processing, up to 1.8× faster graphics, up to 512 GB unified memory, and pricing from $2,499.