On Wednesday, the week after WWDC26, Apple posted one more thing: a 90-minute “Special Presentation” on Apple Intelligence, recorded live during WWDC Tuesday from the Steve Jobs Theater. It’s an old-school session, harkening back to the days before Covid eliminated in-person, on-stage presentations. It’s wonderful to see Apple engineers walking on to the stage, running demos live, pausing to acknowledge applause, and ad-libbing to fill time. It warmed my heart and reminded me that the best part about WWDC was always the engineer–developer connection.

I doubt Apple will ever go back to a full-on, in-person event—putting on a 5,000-person conference with 100+ overlapping sessions and labs was logistically onerous—but a couple of these special sessions each day would be welcome.

As for the session itself, here’s how Apple describes it:

Step inside Steve Jobs Theater to discover the latest Apple Intelligence and Xcode advancements. Learn how to accelerate your development with new agentic coding workflows in Xcode 27, and discover how App Intents enable Siri to understand context and take action inside your app. Find out how to ship intelligent features using the Foundation Models framework, deploy custom on-device models with Core AI, and scale your machine learning research and training using MLX.

If you’re at all interested in the revamped Apple Intelligence and Siri AI, this is a must-watch session. The Xcode agentic coding demo was especially impressive and left me wondering about the specificity of the prompts and the reproducibility of the results.