What's New in macOS and watchOS 27

This week on AppStories, John shares his favorite parts of macOS and watchOS 27 from his reviews of both.
On AppStories+, Federico and John begin revisiting new their long lists of automation projects.
Also available on YouTube here (youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDSpdP6G2mHvrG8-Mlf…).
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Links and Show Notes
John's macOS and watchOS 27 Reviews
• macOS 27: The MacStories Review (macstories.net/stories/macos-27-the-macstories…)
• watchOS 27: The MacStories Review (macstories.net/stories/watchos-27-the-macstori…)
AppStories+ Show Notes
AI Agents and Cloud Development
• Claude Code Projects (anthropic.com/engineering/managed-agents)
• Cursor Cloud Agents (cursor.com/cloud)
• Muse (Meta AI agent) (techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/meta-debuts-its-muse…)
• Grok Bot (apps.apple.com/us/app/grok-bot/id6794501026)
Local AI on Mac Studio
• Qwen3.8 Flash Next (qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.8-flash-next)
• Xiaomi MiMo-V2.6 (mimo.mi.com/models/en-US/mimo-v2.6-flash)
• MLX (github.com/ml-explore/mlx)
• LM Studio (lmstudio.ai)
• Draw Things (drawthings.ai)
• oMLX (omlx.ai)
• github.com/raspoli/mlx-serve
• DwarfStar (codemotion.com/magazine/ai-ml/dwarfstar-the-dw…)
• Open Minis (apps.apple.com/us/app/open-minis/id6759188481)
• Tailscale (tailscale.com)
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