Hermes Agent v0.17.0: 1,475 Commits, 245 Contributors, and the Asterisk Is Gone
Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.17.0 with 1,475 commits and 245 contributors. It fixes the asterisk from my Jun 6 review and adds channels,…
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The White House Wants Anthropic to Build Jailbreak-Proof AI. Security Experts Say That’s Impossible.
In my first piece on this story, I covered the what: the US government killed Anthropic's best models with export controls. In the second…
DeepSeek V4 Adds Vision: Free Multimodal AI That Challenges GPT-4o
Back in May 2025, when I reviewed DeepSeek AI, I called out the biggest missing piece: "No image generation or visual recognition support." It…
Midjourney Medical Scanner: The AI Company’s First Hardware Is a Full-Body Imaging Device
The Midjourney hardware announcement event happened Wednesday night. Every guess was wrong. I ran through the possibilities in my pre-event coverage: custom inference chips,…
OpenAI Is Losing $20.92 Billion a Year — Leaked Financials, Explained
OpenAI is spending $20 billion a year more than it makes. That is the headline from leaked audited financial documents obtained by independent journalist…
Midjourney Announces First Hardware Project, Livestream Event This Week
The Midjourney hardware announcement dropped late Tuesday. The AI image generation company is working on its first physical product. Midjourney is holding a livestream…
Cursor Just Went Mobile, the Same Day SpaceX Bought It for $60B
Hours after SpaceX announced a $60B acquisition of Cursor, the company shipped web and mobile agents with a PWA, background task execution, and Slack…
ChatGPT’s Market Share Just Dropped Below 50% for the First Time
ChatGPT fell to 46.4% market share in May 2026, the first time below 50% since launch. Gemini hit 27.7%, Claude 10.3%. The data tells…
SpaceX Just Bought Cursor for $60B, Days After the Largest IPO in History
Elon built xAI to compete with OpenAI and Anthropic. All 11 co-founders left. Four days after the largest IPO in history, SpaceX is buying…
Hermes Agent Async Subagents: The Asterisk on My Review Just Got Fixed
Hermes Agent just shipped async subagents. The delegate tool no longer blocks your chat. Here is what changed, what it fixes, and how to…
OpenAI Just Put a Price Tag on What Was Already Happening
OpenAI launched a $150M partner program with 300K consultants, three tiers, and three specializations including Codex. But the real story is what was already…
Two Claude Deadlines Hit Today. Most Teams Aren’t Ready.
Two Claude model retirements and a billing overhaul land today with no grace period. Here's what breaks, what to do about it, and the…