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Telecommunications & Media

Top-spec 16-inch MacBook Pro tops $10,000 as memory prices rise up to 100 percent

Apple’s top-spec 16-inch MacBook Pro price has exceeded $10,000 for the first time, as higher-end memory and storage options saw much bigger increases than the base model. After the latest adjustment, the top configuration sells for $10,149. Apple blogger John Gruber said the base model rose about 13 to 15 percent, while memory upgrade costs rose much more, reaching up to 100 percent in some tiers.

AI & Enterprise

Markdown document format gains traction as government, companies adopt it amid AI expansion

Markdown, a lightweight markup language, is drawing attention as a document format suited to the AI era, with adoption spreading from private companies to government agencies. It uses simple symbols to structure text and can be saved as plain .md files. Industry participants cite its AI-friendliness, saying it reduces the need for parsers and can save resources in AI processing and document exchange between agents.