Opening Postman quietly rewrites your Claude Code and Codex settings
A GitHub report says Postman desktop 12.33.4, on launch, installs plugins into Claude Code and Codex, edits their config files, adds a startup hook that routes API work through its own skill, and approves its own trust record. It hit #2 on Hacker News.
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a follow-up to “three things to check before installing an AI extension”: how to see what was added to your ~/.claude
Shopify: AI-driven traffic up 2.6x, and Meta’s Muse can now check out
Shopify’s Q3 revenue was $3.74B, up 32%. AI-attributed orders rose 3.3x, over 70% from outside the top categories. Meta’s consumer AI assistant Muse can now browse Shopify stores and pay with Shop Pay.
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soon an AI may do the shopping for you, so small sellers should write product pages for AI readers too
Siri’s AI opens to every app, Japanese included
The developer preview is live in the iOS 27.3 betas. Any app can plug content and actions into Siri through App Intents, including on-screen awareness and multi-step actions. Launch languages include English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish; App Store submissions open next spring.
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“tell Siri once and it gets it done in the app,” and Japanese users get it early
Anthropic open-sources FlashProve, which proves which model wrote a reply
Built with EPFL and MIT, it uses zero-knowledge proofs to show a reply came from a specific set of weights without revealing them. The cost is 70–95x the compute of just running the model.
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is the API you pay for really the model you think it is?
US payments firm Fiserv cuts 3,000 jobs under an “AI everywhere” push
That is about 8% of staff, including over 10% of senior managers. It doubled its savings target to $1B and is automating fraud review, customer service and coding with AI. Shares rose about 9.5%.
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as “AI layoffs” announcements pile up, which jobs are actually being replaced?
Nvidia to Asian cloud firms: majority-Chinese revenue means no chips
Nvidia verbally told cloud providers in Singapore, Malaysia and Japan that at least 51% of their business must go to non-Chinese firms, backed by data-center inspections and contract audits.
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Japan’s AI compute is now caught up in the US–China contest
⚠️ Compiled by an AI assistant from public AI news roundups; original articles are not individually verified. For reference only.