Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.20.0, 'The Herald Release,' on August 3, 2026, featuring voice with barge-in support, the A2A v1.0 protocol, and a cold startup time cut from 14 seconds to 1.8 se…
Nous Research shipped Hermes Agent v0.20.0 on August 3rd, adding streaming conversational voice, on-device wake words, and a standard protocol for communicating with other AI agents. The release, sign…
A developer accepted a friend's dare to build a Pass the Pigs app during an apéritif, using an adversarial AI development loop. The plan was written by Codex and reviewed by Claude Fable 5, with Herme…
Tadashi Shigeoka reports that he successfully integrated AI agents Claude Code, Codex, and Hermes Agent with Backlog, Nulab's project management tool, by issuing a Backlog API key from personal settin…
A Chinese-speaking hacker used DeepSeek to autonomously attack more than 460 systems, with only three confirmed compromises, according to a July 30, 2026 report from Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42. The o…
Nous Research's open-source AI agent Hermes Agent requires deployment on a virtual private server (VPS) to run continuously, including while users sleep, as the desktop version stops when the laptop c…
Tadashi Shigeoka released omh-issue-loop, a Hermes Agent skill that automates the full journey from a GitHub issue to a pull request by orchestrating Codex CLI for implementation and Claude Code CLI f…
Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent now supports a LanceDB memory plugin that adds semantic, long-term recall across sessions, addressing the agent's tendency to forget user preferences and facts…
Unit 42 researchers have uncovered a Chinese-speaking threat actor using an autonomous attack platform that combines the Hermes agent with DeepSeek's AI to conduct reconnaissance, PoC acquisition, and…
Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 discovered a China-based threat actor using the DeepSeek AI model and the open-source Hermes Agent to conduct autonomous cyberattacks on exposed servers, with the agent ind…
Y Combinator announced on July 31st that it will open-source QM, a multi-agent harness used across accounting, legal, events, and engineering, marking a shift from internal tool to public release. The…
Nous Research released Hermes Agent support for Buzz, Block's open source Nostr-based workspace for humans and AI agents, offering three integration paths: Buzz Desktop managed runtime, relay bridge, …
Nous Research opened a 48-hour preview of Black Forest Labs' FLUX 3 multimodal foundation model to paid Nous Portal subscribers through Hermes Agent on Thursday, July 30th, according to a post on X. T…
Unit 42 identified a Chinese-speaking threat actor using the Hermes Agent framework with DeepSeek as an autonomous offensive operator to target infrastructure via seven vulnerabilities, combining AI-d…
Developer nagisanzenin released Engram v1.0.8, a learning system for humans that turns AI coding assistants into tutors, examiners, and spaced-repetition schedulers across six agentic platforms includ…
Nous Research, the open-source AI lab co-founded by Ryan Teknium, added local wake-word activation to Hermes Agent on July 29th, allowing users to open a session and issue a spoken command without tou…
Nous Research co-founder Ryan "Teknium" Teknium announced Wednesday that Hermes Agent voice chats now stream speech from most API-based text-to-speech backends, reducing perceived delay by starting au…
A developer guide explains how to run the Hermes agent fully locally using QVAC, an OpenAI-compatible server, enabling offline inference, persistent memory, and tool execution without cloud dependenci…
AgentHost launches persistent, governed AI agents that run in the user's own cloud infrastructure, offering four agent interfaces—Claude Code, Codex, Hermes Agent, and Gemini CLI—plus the OpenClaw mes…
An underground relay market for AI API tokens offers up to 97.8% discounts on official pricing, with a four-layer supply chain spanning card merchants, account pools, relay operators, and end users. S…