Unverified claim that Apple will deeply integrate Gemini into iOS at WWDC 2026.

Released and open-sourced the DFNDR-12M multimodal training dataset on Hugging Face.

Launched first external partnership for Qwen AI app with China Eastern Airlines for flight booking integration

Released Qwen3.6-27B, a dense 27B parameter model that surpasses its previous 397B MoE model on coding benchmarks.

John Ternus assumes leadership of Apple's AI and hardware engineering efforts, marking a transition from the Cook era.

Apple promotes Johny Srouji to Chief Hardware Officer, centralizing leadership over silicon design and hardware engineering.

Researchers developed DCW (Diffusion Correction in Wavelet domain), a method to fix SNR-t misalignment bias in diffusion models, improving performance for models like FLUX and EDM.

Apple reportedly accelerates development of its first foldable iPhone, targeting a 2026 release for AI-optimized experiences.

Published 'Attention to Mamba' paper proposing a method for cross-architecture knowledge transfer from Transformers to Mamba.

Moved Qwen 3.6 Plus model to API-only access, adopting a paid frontier model strategy.