The Hallway Track
Every signal tracked from the world's AI conferences — 4,665 talks, quotes & announcements, newest first.
Apple is open-sourcing the Foundation Models framework and adding cloud reasoning models plus third-party model access from Anthropic and Google.
“The Foundation Models framework, including many of the brand new APIs that we're announcing today, is going open source!”
Apple's new Evaluations framework in Xcode 27 lets Swift developers test and scale agentic AI app quality.
“The quality of your evaluation results is only as good as the data behind them.”
Apple's Metal 4 brings machine learning into real-time rendering via MetalFX denoising, ML command encoders, and shader-level TensorOps.
“Machine learning is moving from research into production in real-time rendering.”
Apple expands Visual Intelligence to iPad and macOS with new app-integration APIs for image search.
“If I take a picture or screenshot of some album artwork, and highlight to search, my app shows matching albums and concerts right in Visual Intelligence.”
Apple's WWDC26 session teaches developers how to build and distribute Safari web extensions for content blocking.
“Apple is working with other browsers in the W3C Web Extensions Working Group to standardize the APIs used to build web extensions across browsers.”
Apple introduces Retention Messaging in App Store Connect to reduce subscription cancellations.
“Subscriptions that have adopted Retention Messaging experience an average save rate increase of +1.4 points equivalent to an 82% increase, with promotional offer messages achieving the highest observed save rate at +5.5 points equivalent to a 223% increase.”
Apple's new NowPlaying framework lets apps surface media in the system now-playing experience across all Apple platforms.
“MediaSession is what connects the session representation with the system.”
Apple's WWDC26 session teaches developers to make custom UI controls accessible to VoiceOver using SwiftUI accessibility modifiers.
“At Apple, we believe that technology works best when it works for everyone.”
tvOS 27 adds system-wide Large Text (Dynamic Type) support, letting every app scale text for accessibility.
“Large Text support is now available, bringing system-wide text scaling to every app on the platform.”
Apple opens PaperKit in iOS/macOS/visionOS 27, giving developers full programmatic control over canvas experiences.
“Today I'll show you how to unwrap PaperKit, so you can take full control over your canvas experience.”
Apple's Instruments now profiles Foundation Models apps, giving developers observability into on-device and server LLM agent loops.
“Traditional code is predictable. LLMs are non-deterministic - the same input can produce different outputs.”
Apple introduces CSS Grid Lanes, a new web layout mode for masonry-style layouts, in Safari 26.4.
“Grid Lanes is available today in Safari 26.4 and behind a flag in other browsers.”
Xcode 27 lets developers translate apps directly using coding agents that leverage String Catalog context.
“Beginning in Xcode 27, you can now translate your strings directly in Xcode using coding agents!”
Apple unveils Container machine, a persistent Linux dev environment for Mac built on its Containerization framework.
“A Container machine is fast and lightweight, like a container, and persistent like a virtual machine.”
Apple's Xcode coding agents let developers generate multiple native UI prototype variations from prompts during early app design.
“Do not delegate critical thinking to these tools.”
Apple unveils visionOS 27 with new frameworks for building spatial computing experiences on M5-powered Vision Pro.
“Your feedback continues to shape the future of visionOS, guiding the features we release and accelerating the next era of computing.”
Apple's WWDC26 session details new text navigation APIs to make long-form reading apps accessible to VoiceOver and Speak Screen.
“Reading long-form content is fundamentally different from navigating UI: it's about moving fluidly through text, not just moving between UI elements like controls.”
Apple's new TextKit APIs let developers blend framework text views' convenience with custom text views' full control.
“Today we'll look at how we can get the best of both worlds.”
Apple unveils USDKit framework and OpenUSD updates, including Gaussian Splat support, to power spatial 3D experiences across its platforms.
“Apple is leading the charge in making USD the foundation for the next generation of spatial experiences.”
Apple's visionOS 27 expands object tracking to moving and handheld items, with high frame rate tracking and metric-space pose APIs, plus extends it to iOS.
“In visionOS 27, we are expanding object tracking, giving you the ability to track objects in motion, including handheld items alongside other enhancements.”
Apple's Safari 27 and Chrome 135 add customizable HTML select elements styleable with pure CSS.
“Starting in Safari 27 and Chrome 135, you can use the pre-existing select element to seamlessly integrate your drop-downs into your website.”
Apple expands its native HTML Model element from visionOS to iOS, iPadOS, and macOS Safari for embedding 3D content.
“We pioneered the Model element in visionOS — a native HTML element that makes adding a 3D model as simple as adding an image.”
Apple's Game Porting Toolkit 4 adds agentic coding skills that let coding agents port games to Apple platforms far faster.
“We're at a moment where coding agents are fundamentally changing how software gets built. Game porting is no different.”
Apple's MLX now supports distributed LLM inference and training across multiple Macs via RDMA over Thunderbolt 5 and the new JACCL library.
“JACCL is an open-source collective communication library built by Apple. It leverages RDMA over Thunderbolt and gives you collective communication primitives for sending data between machines and combining results across the group”