Apple launched new MacBook Pro models featuring the M5 Pro and M5 Max chips, delivering up to 4x AI performance improvement over the previous generation. The M5 Max packs 614GB/s memory bandwidth and Neural Accelerators built into every GPU core.
Researchers reverse-engineered Apple's M4 Neural Engine, discovering it's a graph execution engine rather than a traditional processor, exposing hidden APIs that bypass CoreML, and revealing that Apple's '38 TOPS' spec is misleading.
A researcher published a reverse engineering analysis of the Apple M4 chip's Neural Engine, revealing its CoreML-based architecture, 6.6 FLOPS/W energy efficiency, and the ability to completely shut down when idle.
A developer with a Mac Mini M4 used Claude to reverse engineer Apple's private Neural Engine APIs, bypassed CoreML, and successfully trained a 110M parameter Microgpt model entirely on the ANE — opening new possibilities for NPU-based AI training.
Apple released the first iOS 26.4 developer beta on February 17 without the expected Google Gemini-powered Siri improvements, citing response latency and query processing issues during internal testing.
Anthropic says Xcode 26.3 now includes native integration with the Claude Agent SDK, bringing Claude Code capabilities directly into Apple’s IDE. The update expands from turn-by-turn assistance to longer-running autonomous coding workflows.