🍎 Apple's new AI coding agent

Good Morning! Apple just made a big move for developers by bringing OpenAI and Anthropic’s coding agents directly into Xcode. Plus, you’ll learn how to create professional product ads animations in minutes using AI.

Plus, in today’s AI newsletter:

• How to Create Professional AI Product Ads Animations

• Apple Turns Xcode Into AI Coding Agent

• Alibaba Launches Qwen3-Coder-Next

• AI Hunts Anomalies in Hubble’s Archive

• 4 new AI tools worth trying

AI CODING

🍎 Apple Turns Xcode Into AI Coding Agent

Apple announced that Xcode 26.3 will natively support OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Agent, letting AI agents take real actions inside the IDE instead of just suggesting code.

• Claude Agent and Codex can write/edit code, tweak project settings, and search docs

• Agents can act inside Xcode, not just chat or assist passively

• OpenAI’s Codex appears directly in the Xcode project sidebar

• Xcode now supports the open Model Context Protocol, allowing more AI tools to plug in

This turns Xcode into an agent-powered IDE. By letting AI take action inside projects, Apple is signaling that autonomous coding agents are becoming a core part of how software gets built, not an add-on.

AI MODELS

👨‍💻 Alibaba Launches Qwen3-Coder-Next

Qwen3-Coder-Next is an open-weight coding model built for real-world development workflows. Despite having 80B total parameters, it activates just 3B at a time, yet still scores 70%+ on SWE-Bench Verified, rivaling far larger models.

• Hits 70%+ on SWE-Bench Verified with only 3B active parameters

• Trained on 800K executable coding tasks with real tool usage and failure recovery

• Works out of the box with Claude Code, Cline, Qwen Code, and browser IDEs

• Apache 2.0 licensed, making it affordable and enterprise-friendly

Qwen3-Coder-Next proves efficient models can rival heavyweight coding AIs. This could unlock powerful coding agents for solo devs and small teams without burning massive compute budgets.

AI SCIENCE

🔭 AI Hunts Anomalies in Hubble’s Archive

Scientists at the European Space Agency used a custom AI system called AnomalyMatch to scan nearly 100 million tiny slices of Hubble images, revealing over 1,300 unusual objects, most of which had gone unnoticed for 35 years.

• AI identified 1,300+ anomalies in under 3 days, including 800 never documented before

• Discoveries include galaxy mergers, jellyfish galaxies, gravitational lenses, and unknown objects

• The model scanned decades of archival data instead of relying on new telescope time

• First-ever systematic AI search across Hubble’s full image archive

Space telescopes collect far more data than humans can analyze. This shows how AI can unlock massive scientific value from old datasets, finding new discoveries without launching a single new mission.

HOW TO AI

💻 How to Create Professional Product Ads Animations in Minutes Using AI

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create sleek, high-end product “assembly” animations where individual parts smoothly come together into a finished product. This technique is widely used in premium ads, landing pages, and product launches,and with AI, you can now do it in under 10 minutes without 3D software or animation skills.

🧰 Who is This For

• Product designers showcasing how something is built

• Marketers creating high-conversion product visuals

• Founders launching hardware or physical products

• Creators who want cinematic animations without complex tools

STEP 1: Capture Your Final “Hero” Image

Everything starts with a strong final image of the product. This image represents the end state of your animation, the fully assembled product viewers will see at the end.

Take a clean, well-lit photo of your product or choose a high-quality existing image. A plain white or solid-color background works best, because it helps the AI clearly understand the shape and boundaries of the object. Make sure the product is centered and clearly visible, as this image will guide every step that follows.

STEP 2: Create an Exploded View Using AI

Now you’ll generate the starting point of the animation: the product broken into its individual components. This is the key step that makes the animation feel premium.

Open Google Gemini and upload the hero image from Step 1. Once the image is uploaded, ask Gemini to generate an exploded view of the exact same product.

You can type: "Generate a realistic image of this exact product in an 'exploded view.' Show all the internal components and parts separated and floating in the air, maintaining the same angle and lighting as the original photo."

Your goal is to have all the internal and external parts separated and floating in space, while keeping the same camera angle, lighting, and perspective as the original image.

Within seconds, Gemini will generate an image that looks like a professional engineering diagram, with components spaced apart but clearly aligned. Save this exploded-view image to your device.

STEP 3: Set Start and End Frames in Kling AI

Now it’s time to turn still images into motion.

Open Kling AI and choose the Image-to-Video tool. This tool supports a powerful technique called Start Frame and End Frame animation, where you define the beginning and final states and let the AI animate everything in between.

• Upload the exploded-view image as the first frame.

• Upload the original hero image as the final frame.

By placing the exploded view first and the finished product last, you instruct the AI to animate the parts flying together and assembling into the final product. The AI automatically calculates realistic motion paths, spacing, and timing.

STEP 4: Generate and Review the Final Animation

Click the Generate button and let Kling AI do the heavy lifting.

The system smoothly animates each component into place, handling motion blur, speed, and alignment for you. In many cases, Kling AI even adds subtle sound effects like clicks and swooshes, making the animation feel polished and cinematic.

Once the video is ready, review the result and download it. You now have a professional-grade product assembly animation that’s perfect for ads, websites, product demos, or social media, created in minutes using AI.

OpenAI names Dylan Scandinaro, who worked on AGI safety at Anthropic, as the company's head of preparedness.

Nvidia is nearing a deal to invest $20B in OpenAI as part of OpenAI's $100B funding round.

Software and data stocks plunge over fears that new developments in AI will supplant software; ADBE closed down 7.31%, CRM 6.85%, and Thomson Reuters 15.83%.

HP CEO Enrique Lores leaving to become PayPal CEO blindsided HP, whose board rushed to launch a CEO search process; Lores had worked for HP since 1989

🚀 Codex App: OpenAI’s Mac app to run and manage AI agents

🧠 OpenClaw: An open-source AI assistant that works inside chat apps

🎥 Grok Imagine: xAI’s video generation model, now available via API

🎨 Riverflow 2.0: Sourceful’s top-ranked AI model for image editing

THAT’S IT FOR TODAY

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