Evening Scan

Apple's September event is confirming itself piece by piece — invites, Mac mini, AirPods, iPad mini all leaking within hours of each other. Unitree's post-IPO drop is giving the robotics hype cycle its first real stress test.

45% — Unitree shares dropped post-IPO, cutting its valuation from $66B to $36B and reviving bubble talk across China's robotics sector. (Reuters)

Apple Reportedly Will Announce iPhone 18 Pro Event Date This Week

Invites landing this week means the full product slate — Mac mini, AirPods 5, OLED iPad mini — gets an official date. (MacRumors)

Sources: Apple plans to launch a new Mac mini, its first refresh in two years (paywall)

Two years is a long wait for a $600 box. M5 and M6 variants are reportedly both ready. (Bloomberg)

Amazon hikes hardware prices by 60%, blaming memory shortage

The memory crunch has moved from spec sheets to sticker prices. Other device makers are likely to follow. (TechCrunch)

Raspberry Pi shares its official tutorial for making a cyberdeck

A reminder that not everything in tech this week is about AI valuations or memory shortages. (The Verge)