Apple

Xcode 26.3 includes an MCP server

This is a significant improvement in the ability to use agentic coding tools like Claude Code to build software for Apple’s platforms using native technologies.

Here’s Claude Code summarizing what it sees:

Xcode MCP Tools

Project Navigation & File Operations

1. XcodeListWindows - Lists current Xcode windows and workspace information
2. XcodeLS - Lists files and directories in the Xcode project structure (works on project organization, not filesystem)
3. XcodeGlob - Finds files matching wildcard patterns (e.g., .swift, **/.json)
4. XcodeRead - Reads file contents with line numbers (supports offset/limit for large files)
5. XcodeGrep - Searches for text patterns using regex in project files

File Modification

Apple VP of AI Retiring

Apple’s Senior VP of Machine Learning and AI Strategy, John Giannandrea, is retiring, and being replaced with Amar Subramanya who recently worked at Microsoft, but has been with Google for 16 years and worked on the Gemini assistant.

Apple is in a weird place with AI. They recognized early on the value of machine learning, and their strategy has been to bake it into the products to produce valuable features, without really identifying it as AI.

Dramatic improvement in Time to First Token on M5 iPad

Apple’s unified memory architecture is great for LLMS (and starting to show up in the PC world), but Apple had an achilles heel: the time it took to generate the first output token with a long prompt.

This was due to the lack of an accelerated matmul instruction, and that was allegedly addressed in the M5. I say allegedly, because the software support to expose wasn’t there until now.