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Hang Ten Systems, which uses AI to help large enterprises build software, raised an additional $53M seed led by Xora, five weeks after its initial $32M seed (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)

Google adds MCP integration to Google Home, letting third-party AI agents analyze home data and control devices, rolling out to Premium Advanced users in the US (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

CADDi, which sells AI tools to help manufacturers organize engineering and production data, raised a $114M Series D at a $1.2B valuation, up from $470M in 2025 (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)

Some developers are using the Claude Code harness to access cheaper non-Anthropic models, including GPT-5.6 Sol, via proxies and services like OpenRouter (Alix Coutures/The Information)

House Speaker Johnson says there's "potentially" a role for Congress in creating AI guardrail legislation and that he plans to hold a meeting with AI executives (Erik Wasson/Bloomberg)

iOS 27 review: a marked improvement over iOS 26 and Siri AI is very impressive with some "wow" moments but it can sometimes misunderstand or hallucinate (Dan Moren/Six Colors)

Satya Nadella says "we welcome" the "deliberate pacing needed to get alignment right", and announces a "Code of Conduct" for Microsoft's MAI models (Satya Nadella/@satyanadella)

Sources: Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google have held working group meetings since July to discuss creating an industry-led standards body for AI (Leo Schwartz/The Information)

Dario Amodei says the "toughest dilemma" about his proposal to "pace the frontier" is what happens if China does not do the same (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

An analysis of Bending Spoons' financials: the company relies on aggressive post-acquisition price hikes, and rising interest rates could crimp its growth (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)

Sam Altman confirms OpenAI won't go public this year saying "given everything happening with safety, right now would be an ill-advised moment to go public" (Jason Ma/Fortune)