A developer documented a workaround for rendering SwiftUI previews on chosen devices and orientations by driving Xcode's MCP bridge (xcrun mcpbridge) from an external agent on Xcode 27.0 RC. Orientati…
OpenAI's GPT-6.1 Sol is now generally available and rolling out in GitHub Copilot for agentic coding and terminal workflows, GitHub announced. The model, billed at provider list pricing under usage-ba…
A developer outlined a two-stage on-device retrieval-augmented generation pipeline for iPhone that pairs an INT8-quantized MiniLM-L6 bi-encoder for approximate retrieval with a CoreML cross-encoder (M…
Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 5.5 is now generally available in GitHub Copilot, GitHub announced, with early testing showing it matches Claude Sonnet 5 on coding tasks while using significantly fewer step…
Developer h1d3mun3 released Augur, an open-source tool that runs Claude Code inside sandboxed macOS virtual machines with full Xcode, xcodebuild and the iOS Simulator preinstalled, plus a lightweight …
A developer built gh-pixel-diff, an open-source browser extension that adds explicit pixel-level diff highlighting to image comparisons in GitHub pull requests and GitLab merge requests. The tool, bui…
Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 is now available in GitHub Copilot for Copilot Pro+, Max, Business, and Enterprise users, GitHub announced. In early testing, Opus 5.5 resolved tasks comparably to Claude O…
XAI's Grok 4.7 reasoning model is now rolling out in GitHub Copilot, building on Grok 4.6 and targeting agentic coding and complex multistep workflows. The model is available to Copilot Pro, Pro+, Max…
Apple's M4 chip, first shipped in the 2024 iPad Pro, is the first publicly available device to support ARM's scalable matrix extension (SME), replacing the proprietary AMX instruction set Apple has us…
A developer published a tutorial showing how to build a privacy-first health assistant that runs Llama-3 entirely on an iPhone using Apple's MLX-Swift framework. The approach pulls step count and slee…
A developer maintains iOS Agent Skill, an open-source collection of Swift guidance, local references and MCP tools, and the npm package ios-agent-mcp, which bundles Swift review tools, Apple reference…
Cognition gave its Devin coding agent a full macOS VM on bare-metal AWS hardware, a warmed-up Xcode, an iOS Simulator, and accessibility-tree vision so it can build, run, and verify iOS apps, then del…
A developer has released ios-agent-mcp, an open source MCP server that exposes the iOS development environment to AI coding agents. The project lets agents analyze Swift projects, review SwiftUI archi…
MobileCode, an open-source fork of the OpenCode AI coding agent, now provides live iOS Simulator and Android Emulator previews inside the coding session, enabling developers to build, launch, and debu…
Anthropic's July 20-24 release of Claude Code Desktop added a public-beta iOS Simulator pane for macOS and a separately installed security plugin that scans code and proposes developer-reviewed patche…
A developer who switched from backend and database architecture to native iOS development credits AI tools, specifically Claude Code, for helping them adapt quickly to the new role. The developer, who…
Software engineer and developer advocate at Anthropic, Alex Albert, argues that using AI coding tools like Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex enhances rather than diminishes the 'flow state' for developer…
Apple Inc. unveiled the new Mac mini starting at $900, a $100 price increase over the previous model, built specifically for the on-device AI users who caused the M4 version to sell out. The M6 chip, …
A developer who rebuilt his income around an autonomous Claude Code environment reports monthly revenue surpassing ¥1.2M after being laid off. He details how an App Store Connect API key enables fully…
A new leak indicates that tvOS 27 will include Siri AI for Apple TV 4K, as the Device Hub app list for tvOS 27 shows a new 'Siri' entry with the 'com.apple.campo' string, which is Apple's internal cod…