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Amazon Introduces First Pre-Order Discount on New Mac Studio, Alongside Mac Mini Deals

Amazon last week introduced the first cash discounts on Apple's brand new Mac mini, and today the M5 Max Mac Studio has joined in on the discounts. You can get this model, which includes 36GB RAM and a 512GB SSD, on sale for $2,449.99, a $49 pre-order discount. Note: MacRumors is an affiliate partner with Amazon. When you click a link and make a purchase, we may receive a small payment, which helps us keep the site running. All of these deals are…

 •  MacRumors

How to right-click on a MacBook

Right-clicking, or "secondary clicking," has many uses, but it's not always obvious how to do it on a MacBook.

 •  Engadget
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Mistral bags €3B to build Europe's sovereign AI champion

Samsung-led round values the French model maker at more than €21B Paris-based AI darling Mistral has raised €3 billion in Series D funding, giving it a post-money valuation of more than €21 billion. That makes it a minnow compared with OpenAI, but Mistral says it is the largest equity fundraising round ever completed by a European technology company. Mistral is pitching itself as a sovereign alternative to US giants such as OpenAI and Anthropic. …

 •  The Register