On 15 October 2026, Meta released the weights of Muse Spark Open, a multimodal model with 816 billion total parameters (42 billion active) and a one-million-token context, optimised to run on two Mac Studios with M5 Ultra chips. Before adopting it in production, read the license — open-weight stops at $20 million in service revenue.

Asahi Linux merged Apple M3 support into its installer on September 6, 2026: the webcam, microphones, USB 3, hardware video decoding with AV1, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth work, but the GPU, sleep, and HDMI remain missing. Install in expert mode and wait for the GPU before making it a daily driver.

In early September 2026, developer Yureka Lilian posted the first Device Tree patches for the Apple A18 Pro SoC in the MacBook Neo, with support still limited to a single CPU core. It is the first concrete step toward Linux support on Apple’s entry-level laptop, but daily use is months away.

On November 19, 2025, SoftBank acquired Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion. On July 24, 2026, Phoronix confirmed that Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite had regressed further. Between those two dates, the ARM/x86 divorce became final: Asahi Linux runs on M5 Macs, multi-arch containers are mundane, and AWS Graviton now powers over 20% of new EC2 instances.