Syndicate OS, a self-hosted multi-agent federation developed by Kevin-the-minion, launches with a one-command setup that deploys a fleet of autonomous agents on local hardware, featuring a board UI, t…
Chinese-linked threat actors used open-source AI agent frameworks Hermes and OpenClaw to breach 21 Taiwanese government systems, including the nuclear safety regulator, in 12 waves of autonomous attac…
Anthropic's Claude Code, a terminal-based agentic coding harness that understands whole codebases and handles git workflows, tops a new index of the best vibe coding tools. The index, which is ranked …
A survey of coding agent reliability and two conference talks argue that the bottleneck in AI systems is no longer the model but the surrounding infrastructure, with over 30% of code changes now mergi…
An engineer argues that agent permissions are becoming product design, not just security plumbing. The piece highlights the Hermes Agent Blank Slate setup, which starts with a minimal agent and requir…
Nous Research introduced Bot Mode for Hermes Desktop on August 17th, turning the AI agent's existing profiles into named Bots with separate roles, models, memory, skills and profile pictures. Users ca…
Upstage, a South Korean AI startup founded in 2020, released Solar Pro 4, a reasoning model that scored 42 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, triple the 14 scored by its predecessor Solar …
A developer known as Nokka (นก-กา) describes a 'Knowledge Stack' system that combines Obsidian, Hermes Agent, and MiniMax M3 to create a self-improving 'second brain.' The stack addresses common PKM p…
A developer's weekly roundup covers six posts on voice AI, including the EU AI Act's synthetic audio watermarking rules that took effect August 2, requiring TTS providers to implement marking pipeline…
Hermes Agent, an open-source personal AI agent from Nous Research, runs on a VPS to stay always-on, managing scheduling, memory, and task routing across a user's day. The author's postmortem emphasize…
Nous Research's open-source Hermes Agent, an autonomous AI agent that runs as a persistent daemon and integrates with 20+ messaging platforms, offers a self-improving memory loop and 70 built-in tools…
DeepSeek's V4 Flash and Qwen-3.8-Max have rewritten the cost equation for large language models, with Nous Research offering DSV4 Flash at a 90% discount and OpenCode reporting 8 trillion tokens proce…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…