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Last chance to shop the best Prime Day MacBook deals: MacBook Airs start at just $599

Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD)
(save $150)

Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M4, 24GB RAM, 1TB SSD)
(save $250)

Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M2, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD)
(save $100 at Best Buy)

Today's the last day of Amazon's four-day Prime Day extravaganza, and as Mashable's resident laptop expert, I've been tasked with finding the best Apple MacBook deals. Truthfully, my job was pretty boring in the early hours of Prime Day on Tuesday and Wednesday: Most of Amazon's discounts on the M4 series were the same as they'd been for a few weeks. But once we entered the second half of the sale, things got interesting.
Yesterday (on Thursday), four MacBook Pros and one MacBook Air got $2 to $38.49 cheaper than they originally were when Prime Day started. As it winds down today (on Friday), I'm now seeing six Pros and two Airs at lower prices than before. All models have yet to match or beat their lowest prices on record, but this is some nice validation for anyone who postponed a purchase.
If you asked me to pick my absolute favorite MacBook deal of Prime Day 2025, I'd go with the base M4 MacBook Air that's hovering at $849. The Starlight colorway briefly fell to $829 on June 20, but I feel totally comfortable endorsing its slightly higher Prime Day price. Realistically, this laptop is a steal even at its full $999 MSRP. Amazon's decision to slash that by an extra $150 mere months after its release is kind of mind-boggling to me.
Among MacBook Pros, the best deal I've spotted is a $250 discount on a 14-inch M4 model with 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, which brings it down to $1,749. It randomly fell to $1,715.05 three times in May, according to the price-tracking site CamelCamelCamel, but otherwise its Prime Day offer marks its biggest discount since launch.
I also want to mention that Amazon only carries the full M4 series nowadays. If you want a good deal on an M2- or M3-era MacBook, check Best Buy. It currently has an M2 MacBook Air on sale for just $699 during its "Black Friday in July" sale. The cheapest MacBook anywhere this week is a $533.60 M1 MacBook Air at Walmart, which is also having a summer sale. This once-legendary laptop won't meet modern performance standards, but it could be a good option for thrifty students.
Read on for my running list of the best Prime Day MacBook deals. (The ones with a ⬇️ by them have gotten cheaper since the sale started.) Of note, none are Prime exclusives.
Best Prime Day MacBook Air deal
Why we like it
Read Mashable's full review of the M4 Apple MacBook Air.
Mashable's Stan Schroeder called the latest MacBook Air "the best-buy Apple laptop, period," praising its quiet oomph, upgraded camera, "great" battery life, and extremely reasonable starting price (which, again, Amazon has reduced by 15%). In his view, its only flaws are a "low number of ports and the fact that the display's refresh rate only goes to 60Hz." The base model sports 16GB of memory and 256GB of SSD storage. We also love this laptop for its incredible performance, open-lid support for two displays, and an upgraded 12MP webcam.
Best Buy was matching Amazon's $849 deal at the time of writing.
More MacBook Air deals
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Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M2, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $699 $799 (save $100)
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Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,049 $1,199 (save $150)
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Apple MacBook Air, 15-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 256GB SSD) — $1,049 $1,199 (save $150)
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Apple MacBook Air, 13-inch (M4, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,245.50 $1,399 (save $1,523.50) ⬇️
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Apple MacBook Air, 15-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,249 $1,399 (save $150)
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Apple MacBook Air, 15-inch (M4, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,432.50 $1,599 (save $166.50) ⬇️
Best Prime Day MacBook Pro deal
Why we like it
Read Mashable's full review of the 14-inch M4 Apple MacBook Pro.
The 14-inch MacBook Pro is one of our favorite laptops for photo and video editing: It's blazing fast, sounds amazing, and lasts all day. (It held out for 20 hours and 51 minutes in our battery life benchmark, making it the fifth longest-lasting laptop we've ever tried.) Former Mashable Tech Editor Kim Gedeon tested a model with slightly less RAM than the one Amazon has on sale for $1,749 — 16GB instead of 24GB — and she recommended it for "creative professional[s] who [thrive] on serious power in a sleek, portable package."
Amazon's Prime Day deal managed to beat Best Buy's Black Friday in July pricing by $10 at the time of writing.
More MacBook Pro deals
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Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,429 $1,599 (save $170)
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Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M4, 16GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $1,599 $1,799 (save $200) ⬇️
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Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M4 Pro, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $1,779 $1,999 (save $220) ⬇️
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Apple MacBook Pro, 16-inch (M4 Pro, 24GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $2,234 $2,499 (save $265) ⬇️
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Apple MacBook Pro, 16-inch (M4 Pro, 48GB RAM, 512GB SSD) — $2,587.50 $2,899 (save $311.50) ⬇️
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Apple MacBook Pro, 14-inch (M4 Max, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $2,874.50 $3,199 (save $324.50)
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Apple MacBook Pro, 16-inch (M4 Max, 36GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $3,117.50 $3,499 (save $381.50) ⬇️
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Apple MacBook Pro, 16-inch (M4 Max, 48GB RAM, 1TB SSD) — $3,557.50 $3,999 (save $441.50) ⬇️
UPDATE: Jul. 11, 2025, 10:05 a.m. EDT We've updated this story to reflect current Prime Day pricing and availability.
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Anthropic reportedly cut OpenAI access to Claude

It seems OpenAI has been caught with its hands in the proverbial cookie jar. Anthropic has reportedly cut off OpenAI’s access to Anthropic’s APIs over what Anthropic is calling a terms of service breach.
As reported by Wired, multiple sources claim that OpenAI has been cut off from Anthropic’s APIs. Allegedly, OpenAI was using Anthropic’s Claude Code to assist in creating and testing OpenAI’s upcoming GPT-5, which is due to release in August.
According to these sources, OpenAI was plugging into Claude’s internal tools instead of using the chat interface. From there, they used the API to run tests against GPT-5 to check things like coding and creative writing against Claude to compare performance. OpenAI allegedly also tested safety prompts related to things like CSAM, self-harm, and defamation. This would give OpenAI data that it could then use to fine-tune GPT-5 to make it more competitive against Claude.
Unfortunately for OpenAI, this violates Anthropic’s commercial terms of service, which ban companies from using Anthropic’s tools to build competitor AI products.
“Customer may not and must not attempt to access the Services to build a competing product or service, including to train competing AI models or resell the Services except as expressly approved by Anthropic,” the terms read.
OpenAI responded by saying that what the company was doing was an industry standard, as all the AI companies test their models against the competing models. The company then went on to say that it respected Anthropic’s decision but expressed disappointment in having its API access shut off, especially considering that Anthropic’s access to OpenAI’s API remains open.
A spokesperson told Wired that OpenAI’s access would be reinstated for “benchmarking and safety evaluations.”
It’s not the first time this year that Anthropic has cut off API access. In June, the company cut off Windsurf’s API access after rumors that it was being sold to OpenAI. That deal ultimately fell through, but Anthropic’s cofounder, Jared Kaplan, told TechCrunch at the time that “it would be odd for us to be selling Claude to OpenAI.”
Anthropic has also tweaked its rate limits for Claude, which will take effect in late August, with one of the reasons being that a small number of users are violating the company’s policy by sharing and reselling accounts.
Disclosure: Ziff Davis, Mashable’s parent company, in April filed a lawsuit against OpenAI, alleging it infringed Ziff Davis copyrights in training and operating its AI systems.
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Amazon is toying around with putting ads in Alexa+

It’s the end of another quarter, which means it’s time for yet another earnings call with concerning ideas for generating more revenue. This time around, it's Amazon CEO Andy Jassy, who told shareholders on Thursday that there’s “significant financial opportunity” in delivering ads through Alexa+, the company’s new AI-powered voice assistant.
“I think over time, there will be opportunities, you know, as people are engaging in more multi-turn conversations to have advertising play a role — to help people find discovery and also as a lever to drive revenue,” Jassy said, per the investor call transcript.
Since launching earlier this year, Alexa+ has reportedly reached millions of users. Unlike the original Alexa, which mostly turns off lights and sets timers, Alexa+ is designed to be more conversational, context-aware, and AI-driven. It can help you plan your date night, entertain your kids, and even dabble in basic image and video generation — all under the banner of your $14.99/month Prime subscription.
But so far, Amazon Alexa has been an ad-free experience. It's also more than 10 years old, and it doesn't make money; thus, it's been deemed a "colossal failure" by those within the company.
Of course, Amazon isn’t alone in trying to figure out how to make AI pay for itself. Both Google and OpenAI have explored ad integration in their AI products as a way to generate revenue. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, in particular, has made a notable pivot: once firmly against advertising in his chatbot, he’s since reversed course, possibly opening the door for ads in future versions of ChatGPT.
Whatever the motivation, injecting ads into Alexa+ would mark a major shift in both user experience and Amazon’s strategy, especially given the assistant’s long history of being expensive to maintain and hard to monetize. Ad-supported Alexa+ could be Amazon’s attempt to finally turn its once-money-burning smart assistant into a revenue machine, without hiking the subscription fee (at least for now).
Alexa+ is still new, and what an ad-supported experience would actually look like remains unclear. According to Jassy, the idea is to frame ads as helpful, something to assist customers in discovering products they might be interested in buying.
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