Nous Research launches Hermes agent with built-in skills
An independent lab shipping a full agent stack outside the frontier labs gives developers a serious alternative and a new distribution path for agent skills.
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Meta leaves paying Instagram users with broken AI-only support
A live stress test of how far consumer companies will push customers before removing human support becomes a churn risk
Read storyFounders debate which moats survive when AI clones software
Builders are converging on proprietary data, distribution, and network effects as what stays durable once code can be cloned.
Read storyMajor publishers now use AI for covers, copy, rejections
HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette folding AI into everyday publishing workflows signals the technology moving into the core commercial machinery of books.
Read storyLeaked AI chat logs expose Xiaomi and Huawei credentials
Working access credentials sitting in terabytes of purchasable chat logs show how engineers leak corporate secrets through unvetted third-party resellers.
Read storyMajor publishers now use AI for covers, copy, rejections
HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette folding AI into everyday publishing workflows signals the technology reaching routine white-collar work.
Read storyMcDonald's faces antitrust suit over AI pricing tool
The case tests whether vendors can pipe nonpublic sales data through AI tools to franchisees competing in the same market.
Read storyMathematicians push back as OpenAI's claimed proofs go open source
Top mathematicians are accusing the lab of opacity and secrecy, while open-source builders turn the released problems into public training environments, keeping a fierce debate roa
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A runaway agent's $100,000 bill reopens agent liability debate
The incident puts a hard price on autonomous agent failures and revives the argument over whether developers, not users, bear responsibility for what agents spend.
Read storyNvidia invests in rival chipmaker d-Matrix to broaden compatibility
Putting equity into competing silicon keeps Nvidia central to AI infrastructure even as its biggest customers hunt for GPU alternatives.
Read storyNous Research launches Hermes agent with free token-efficient model
A limited free window gives developers another credible model-and-agent pairing to evaluate against offerings from the larger labs.
Read storyManus raises $500 million after Meta's acquisition falls through
Staying independent with fresh capital at a reported multibillion valuation keeps a prominent agent startup out of Big Tech's hands.
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