Sankalp Phartiyal / Bloomberg:
Bengaluru-based Pronto, which offers on-demand home-help services like cooking and cleaning, raised a $25M Series B led by Epiq Capital at a $100M valuation  —  Household-help app Pronto raised funding at a $100 million valuation, underscoring rising demand for services such as cooking …

Maria Curi / Axios:
OpenAI and the DOD agree to add more surveillance protections to the recent AI deal; sources say Sam Altman approached the DOD's Emil Michael to rework the deal  —  OpenAI and the Pentagon have agreed to strengthen their recently agreed contract, following widespread backlash …

Igor Bonifacic / Engadget:
Anthropic brings Claude's memory feature to free users, after launching it for paid users in October 2025  —  It's the latest upgrade to arrive for free users.  —  Anthropic is bringing another paid feature to Claude's free tier.  The next time you chat with Claude, you'll have the option …

npx workos launches an AI agent, powered by Claude, that reads your project, detects your framework, and writes a complete auth integration directly into your existing codebase. It’s not a template generator. It reads your code, understands your stack, and writes an integration that fits.

The WorkOS agent then typechecks and builds, feeding any errors back to itself to fix.

See how it works →

Bloomberg:
Sources: X and xAI are set to repay ~$17.5B of debt in full; X took on ~$12.5B of debt during Musk's purchase, and xAI borrowed $5B via bonds and loans in June  —  The roughly $17.5 billion of debt tied to Elon Musk's social network X and artificial intelligence startup xAI is set to be paid back in full …