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AI Coding Assistants Invade Xcode as Supply Chain Attacks Surge

Apple integrated Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex into Xcode 26.3, its flagship developer tool, according to a Tuesday announcement. The update signals a major push into "agentic coding," giving AI agents unprecedented control over the app-building process.

Xcode 26.3, immediately available as a release candidate, allows the AI systems to autonomously write code, build projects, run tests, and visually verify their own work with minimal human oversight. This marks Apple's most significant embrace of AI-assisted software development since introducing intelligence features, according to VentureBeat.

The move comes as other companies are also working to bridge the gap between AI-generated code and production infrastructure. Vercel, for example, rebuilt its v0 service to tackle what it calls the "90% problem" – connecting AI-generated code to existing production infrastructure, rather than just creating prototypes, according to VentureBeat. The original v0, launched in 2024, helped developers create UI scaffolding, but getting those prototypes into production required rewrites. More than 4 million people have used v0 to build millions of prototypes.

The rise of AI in coding has prompted some reflection on the nature of problem-solving. One Hacker News user expressed missing the experience of "thinking hard," defining it as "encountering a specific, difficult problem and spending multiple days just sitting with it to overcome it." The user, posting on February 3, 2026, admitted the post had "no answers, not even suggestions," but was simply a way to vent.

In other tech news, Amazon Web Services CEO Matt Garman pushed back against the idea of space-based data centers, touted by Elon Musk and others, at a tech conference in San Francisco on Tuesday. While acknowledging potential benefits like harnessing solar energy and utilizing the cold atmosphere for cooling, Garman cited the high cost of transporting equipment as a major obstacle. "I don’t know if you’ve seen a rocket launch lately, but it’s not cheap," Garman said, according to Fortune. Amazon currently has more than 900 data centers spread across the planet.

Meanwhile, Notepad developers announced on February 2, 2026, that their update infrastructure had been compromised due to a hosting provider level incident that occurred from June to September 2025, according to Hacker News. Attackers retained access to internal services until December 2025. Security researchers identified multiple execution chains and payloads related to the incident, dating back to July 2025.

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