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OpenAI dots: ChatGPT Joins the Always-on Agent Race

29 September 2026

OpenAI dots: ChatGPT Joins the Always-on Agent Race

OpenAI just launched and is rolling out to ChatGPT users today a new capability it calls dots, or always-on agents. In simple terms, these are persistent chatbots inside ChatGPT that you can name, set…

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Jev Has Played Doom and Mario. I Made It Play Poker

25 September 2026

Jev Has Played Doom and Mario. I Made It Play Poker

Jev, the decision model TypeSafe AI released on September 15, has been one of the most discussed AI launches of the month. It is built for fast, cheap decisions inside software: you give it a situatio…

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What I Added to Hermes in Fifteen Days

24 September 2026

What I Added to Hermes in Fifteen Days

Hermes Agent is an open-source agent from Nous Research, the lab known for the Hermes family of language models. It was released in February 2026, it is free under the MIT license (source on GitHub), …

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A Frontier AI Managing a Team of Coding Agents

5 September 2026

A Frontier AI Managing a Team of Coding Agents

A lot of people are experimenting with multi-agent coding right now. I have been doing the same on a real software project, partly because I wanted to see whether there was a useful division of labour…

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Obsidian as a Durable Control Plane for Sequential Hermes Jobs

2 September 2026

Obsidian as a Durable Control Plane for Sequential Hermes Jobs

Hermes Agent, the self-hosted framework from Nous Research, passed 239,000 GitHub stars as of early September 2026, six months after its February 2026 release. The pitch is a persistent memory across …

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Fable 5, the Cost of Competing, and the Suspicion That Something Changed

26 August 2026

Fable 5, the Cost of Competing, and the Suspicion That Something Changed

Claude Fable 5 has run under three different access designs since it launched, with a global blackout over export controls in the middle:

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Uncensored AI Models Are a Real, Present Danger

25 August 2026

Uncensored AI Models Are a Real, Present Danger

Right now, anyone with a 24 GB graphics card can download a genuinely capable AI model with its safety layer stripped out and run it offline. This week, developer Alex Finn tested exactly that: he ask…

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Europe Is Raising the Cost of Keeping Data-Centre Options Open

21 August 2026

Europe Is Raising the Cost of Keeping Data-Centre Options Open

Data-centre development has always depended on more than electricity prices. Land, fibre, planning, taxation, water, grid capacity and local politics all matter, and serious developers have never sele…

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Peer Review Is Broken. The Owners Can Afford to Fix It.

20 August 2026

Peer Review Is Broken. The Owners Can Afford to Fix It.

Six months after I submitted a paper to a well-established, Q1-ranked journal, the editor told me to withdraw it: not because the methodology was weak, the fit was poor, or the idea lacked novelty, bu…

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