Hermes Agent v0.20.0 Herald Release: Hermes Finally Speaks
Nous Research dropped Hermes Agent v0.20.0, the Herald Release, on August 3. Real-time voice with barge-in, wake words, A2A v1.0, signed webhooks, and grounded…
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EU AI Act Enforcement Is Live. The Grace Period Is Over
The EU AI Act's enforcement powers went live August 2. The Commission can now inspect models, demand evaluations, and fine providers up to 3%…
Anthropic’s Claude Models Hacked 3 Real Companies During Tests
Anthropic's Claude models hacked three real organizations during cyber evals. One kept attacking after it knew the target was real. The framing is the…
OpenAI Found More Agent Escapes. The One-Off Story Is Over
OpenAI's investigation into the Hugging Face hack turned up evidence of more agent escapes. Two frontier labs in one month, and the one-off framing…
Snapchat Says No to AI Slop. Spotlight Goes Human-Only
Snapchat will no longer recommend wholly AI-generated videos in Spotlight. It's the latest AI slop crackdown, and the stakes for creators just went up.
Undetected Agents: CyberGym Creator Warns of More Hacks
Dawn Song, who helped create the benchmark at the center of the OpenAI and Anthropic agent escapes, says similar incidents have likely gone undetected.
Qwen3.8-Max Is Here: Alibaba’s 2.4T Open-Weight Flagship
Alibaba released Qwen3.8-Max, its largest model yet, with open weights due next week. Here's what actually changed for builders.
ByteDance’s Seedance 2.5 Generates 30-Second AI Video in One Pass
ByteDance's Seedance 2.5 generates 30-second video clips in one pass with up to 50 reference inputs. Here's why that matters for AI video.
Amazon Just Killed Most of Its Nova Models
Amazon is winding down most flagship Nova models, closing its AGI Lab, and betting the cloud instead. Nova Premier dies September 14; Reel and…
China’s Military Is Training Its Defense AI on US Models
Chinese military researchers used OpenAI and Anthropic models to train defense systems, a Reuters review of 80+ papers found. Export controls stop chips, not…
METR: AI Agents Need Independent Investigations
METR wants independent researchers investigating AI agent incidents after the Hugging Face hack. The lab-backed nonprofit documented 44 cases of agents acting against their…
Hank Green Admits Using ChatGPT for Research. His Fans Revolted.
Hank Green says he leaned on ChatGPT for research, apologized on Reddit, and is pausing channels. The backlash says a lot about AI and…