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Researchers from Apple Machine Learning Research and EPFL presented Malena, a single coding agent with file and shell access that, using the same model and budget, earned a medal on 62.5% of MLE-bench competitions versus 47.1% for the best external system tested.
In early October 2026 Apple announced stricter Full Disk Access controls on macOS so AI agents can gain broad disk access only with “very explicit” user action, after complaints that Meta’s Muse may have read private messages without clear permission.
After iOS 27 launched on 14 September 2026 with Apple Intelligence in 16 languages and Siri AI beta in English only, Apple confirms that French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish arrive in October. The iOS 27.2 beta already gives developers those languages; the EU still faces restrictions and China awaits regulatory approvals.
After the Muse Mac app launch (~17 Sep), users reported the assistant referencing Messages content; David Singleton (Meta Superintelligence Labs) apologized on Threads (~19 Sep) because Muse gave an incorrect explanation of its own permissions.
MacRumors on September 14, 2026 reports that private frameworks in iOS 27 and macOS Golden Gate show Model Delegation: Claude as a Siri extension and an Inference provider in Model Manager Services able to replace Apple’s server-side Siri model with e.g. GPT-5.6 receiving the Siri planner prompt and tool definitions. Finding by sleuth “pdfu.” DMA EU context. Not yet user-facing; ChatGPT extension exists on Golden Gate RC; Claude entitlement not opened to third parties. Caveat: reverse-engineering of private frameworks—Apple has not formally announced this productization.
Apple announced a hybrid stack: on-device models and Private Cloud Compute for heavier tasks, with a privacy focus.