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OpenAI has announced plans to acquire Pierre Computer Company, Inc. The acquisition aims to expand Codex's capabilities for building, understanding, and reviewing code.

Apple is rolling out an iOS developer preview that allows Siri AI to perform actions across third-party apps using personal context, natural language prompts, and on-screen awareness. The update also introduces an "app skills" feature that lets developers combine multiple tasks into a single action without requiring users to mention the app by name.

The World of Warcraft community is experiencing an influx of AI-generated game addons and analysis tools ahead of the release of World of Warcraft: Forever. Consequently, data provider Warcraft Logs is restricting its free API and introducing paid commercial keys to manage the surge of low-effort apps, while longtime developers are making their GitHub repositories private to prevent AI-assisted plagiarism.

Simon Willison released version 0.37 of his LLM CLI tool and Python library, adding support for newer GPT-6 models, a command for adding OpenAI-compatible endpoints, and multimodal content types for embeddings. He also noted that the release includes contributions from 12 authors using AI-assisted pull requests, which he successfully triaged using Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Astra.

AI startup Trajectory has raised $45 million in a Series A funding round led by Sequoia at a $300 million valuation. The company provides a publicly available platform that automates the post-training and continual learning of open-source AI models, enabling non-technical specialists to improve model performance using real-world feedback.

OpenAI details how it built Pando, a custom Git-compatible backend. The system was engineered to handle the scale of software development enabled by Codex.

A social media post shared on Hacker News claims that Anthropic is blocking users for activities related to training larger AI models. No further details are provided in the submission text.

A version of the Claude Code VS Code extension containing a backdoor was released on the Cursor marketplace. According to the report's URL, Anthropic was hacked to deliver a remote access trojan to the laptops of Claude developers worldwide.

In an interview, Lean creator and AWS VP Leo de Moura discusses how frontier AI models are making formal verification practical for everyday software engineering and mathematics. He explains how AI can translate code and mathematical papers into the Lean proof assistant via autoformalization, allowing developers to find bugs and verify software properties without deep expertise in theorem proving.

Deepgram is acquiring Daily, the company behind the open-source voice and video AI framework Pipecat, for an undisclosed amount. The two companies pledged to keep Pipecat open-source and vendor-neutral while also launching the Real-Time Context Standard (RCS), an open protocol for voice agents.

An investigation by Flamerix AI found that Claude Code sends the full transcript of each background agent to its model every 30 seconds to generate a brief status line, consuming 15% to 20% of total token spend. Because there is no official setting to disable this default behavior, the authors released a Bun preload script that intercepts and disables the summary timer.