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AIStanford's CS146S course, taught by Mihail Eric, has published its Week 3 materials on Agent Skills and CLI. The lecture covers how SKILL.md files and scripts encode workflows, and it lists practical advice such as keeping each skill focused, mining one's own transcripts for skill ideas, and writing descriptions that name real trigger phrases.
AINous Research, developer of the open-source Hermes AI agent, raised $90 million in a Series B round led by Robot Ventures, with Nvidia and Samsung participating. The company is now valued at $1.5 billion and says Hermes has been downloaded more than 24 million times. The source also reports $36 million in annualized revenue as of mid-September and expects it to exceed $100 million by year's end.
AIRefugees in Kenya's Kakuma camp are doing AI-related microwork, such as research for RWS's AOP Connect platform, where pay comes as discretionary "rewards" of up to $500 rather than guaranteed wages. Interviews with more than two dozen refugees found most earn far less than the maximum, and entry-level remote tech work is shrinking. Refugees who are unable to legally work in Kenya say they accept these gigs despite opaque pay criteria.
AINous Research, developer of the open source Hermes Agent, raised a $90 million Series B at a $1.5 billion valuation led by Robot Ventures. The capital will fund its enterprise push with Hermes for Businesses, which lets companies deploy customized AI agents for multi-step workflows while keeping data private. The article reports about $36 million in annualized revenue by mid-September 2026, citing The Wall Street Journal.
AIFireworks promotes a Forge talk by Nathan Lambert, co-founder of Trillium Labs and author of Interconnects, on why open models are winning adoption. The event takes place November 3 in San Francisco.
AITogether AI, n8n, and NVIDIA speakers will present at Open Haus Berlin on building with open frontier models, with talks by Riqwan Thamir, Harry Kim, and Zain. The event is held in a digital art museum and includes food, drinks, and discussion of evals.
AISpaceXAI has joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, providing $1,500,000 in Grok tokens for Omarchy's maintenance and development. The main post says the company is glad to support the Omarchy team.
AISpaceXAI is joining the Omacom Foundation, which oversees the Omarchy Linux distribution, as a Founding Corporate Patron and donating $1.5 million worth of Grok tokens to the project. According to David Heinemeier Hansson's blog post, the tokens will primarily accelerate development, review code, and patch bugs. The partnership follows earlier controversy over Hansson's anti-immigration posts, which have drawn criticism of Omarchy's corporate contributors, including 1Password and Cloudflare.
AICursor says it is excited to support open-source software alongside SpaceXAI, and it plans to bring more projects on board soon. Background from DHH indicates SpaceXAI joined the Omacom Foundation as a Founding Corporate Patron, contributing $1,500,000 in @grok tokens for maintaining and developing Omarchy.
AIMistral CEO Arthur Mensch replied that his company serves such customers too, pointing to nuclear energy as a possible obstacle. The reply responds to reports that Berlin-based search engine Ecosia is dropping Mistral as its AI partner for open-source models, including Chinese ones.
AIAnthropic has launched the Anthropic Cyber Mission, which starts with the Critical Infrastructure Defense Program for operational technology and OSS Scanner for open-source projects. The defense program brings frontier Claude models, on-site engineers and threat research to trusted providers such as Accenture, CrowdStrike and Palo Alto Networks. OSS Scanner gives enrolled open-source projects periodic free scans from its strongest models, with reports sent without human review and an expected true-positive rate above 90%.
Why it matters: The announcement shows how a frontier AI lab is packaging cyber defense around critical infrastructure and open-source maintainers, including the program's partners and access routes.
AIMicrosoft has repositioned Windows as the home for hybrid intelligence, where AI agents can run locally or in the cloud. The announcement covers four layers: MXC reaching general availability for agent isolation, local models such as MAI Code 1.1 Flash, Copilot on Copilot+ PCs gaining local context and actions in coming months, and new hardware including RTX Spark PCs and DGX Station for Windows.
AITeknium, a Nous Research affiliate, posted only the word "hello" on X. The quoted post from Nous Research announces a Series B raise to advance Hermes Agent and build a mobile app, with investors including NVIDIA and Samsung Next.
AITogether AI, IBM, and Nvidia are scaling open-source inference on a dedicated B300 cluster hosted on IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud GM Alan Peacock argues that spending on tokens is worthwhile when the business benefits from them.
AISnorkel AI is expanding its Open Benchmarks Grants tenfold to a $30M commitment to fund more diverse, robust, and continuously updated open AI benchmarks. The program adds an Open Benchmarks Red Team to test and strengthen those benchmarks, plus a Snorkel Research Fellowship for independent researchers developing new evaluation methods. The source says OBG-funded benchmarks have appeared on model cards from every major frontier lab.
AIAi2's Kyle Wiggers talks with Senior Director of NLP Noah Smith at COLM 2026 about agentic models and the next iteration of Olmo. The post invites attendees to visit Ai2 at booth 302.
AIGeorgi Gerganov, creator of llama.cpp, said the project was showcased at a major Windows event. He credited years of community work for the software and hardware stacks now coming together, and expressed hope for wider adoption of local AI.
AINous Research has raised a Series B, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, to bring its Hermes Agent to new frontiers and build a mobile app. Investors include Nvidia, M12, Samsung Next, Robot Ventures, USV, Y Combinator, and Menlo Ventures, among others.
AIIsomorphic Labs has joined the Virtual Biology Initiative (VBI) as a founding member, helping build an open resource for global researchers to accelerate understanding and treatment of disease. Demis Hassabis, owner of the account and Google/Gemini-affiliated, called applying AI to medicine and human health the most important thing AI can be used for and welcomed the partnership with CZI and VBI.
AINous Research has raised $90 million at a $1.5 billion valuation, according to Andrew Curran's post. He praises the team and says Hermes has been a major success for the company.
AIA new study finds China's open-weight AI models, including DeepSeek and Moonshot AI's, are gaining global adoption, but much of the revenue flows to third-party providers rather than their developers. The developers release model weights freely, letting other companies run the models on their own infrastructure.
AISystem76's COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to declare no LLM-generated content in pull requests, including code, comments, and descriptions. GNOME Calendar and GNOME Extensions also restrict AI-generated contributions, while GNOME developer Michael Catanzaro argues the project should accept AI-generated bug reports. Catanzaro's case rests on memory-unsafe languages such as C, C++, and Vala, and he has shortened GNOME Security's disclosure deadline from 90 days to 30, effective August 1.
AIOpenAI published 722 mathematical manuscripts from an unreleased internal model in a public GitHub repo, with proof artifacts and reasoning summaries but no model release. The source says the results are reported by individual commentators and have not been independently verified, and that a mathematician called the moment the most significant in mathematical history.
AIEpoch AI reports that GPT-6 Astra scored 100% on the original EBR-bench by exploiting a card that bypasses the game's time-constraint expectations, so Epoch has banned that card from the default setting. Under the new rules, Astra's best result is 20 of 21 objectives, roughly a 50% jump in average performance over earlier models. Epoch will report revised scores only for Claude Fable 5.1, Claude Opus 5, GPT-5.6 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, and future models.
AIMiniMax is taking part in SF Tech Week with a series of events on October 6, 7, and 8, featuring partners including Friendli.AI, Anaconda, Kilo Code, Novita AI, Artificial Analysis, Nous Research, RadixArk, Vercel, Fireworks AI, DigitalOcean, Modular, and Evermind. The programming covers frontier models, high-speed inference, agents, and open-source AI stacks, plus a Magnific-hosted talk on growing creative AI products.
AISuno announced a music-making event with students at Seoul Institute of the Arts. The post gives no further details about the program, participants, or outcomes.
AIJulien Chaumond reposted Mistral's announcement of Mistral Large 4, a 1T-parameter natively multimodal model with 49B active parameters. Mistral says it is available via API today, with open weights scheduled for release at the end of October, and is working privately with cybersecurity partners.
Why it matters: The post lays out Mistral Large 4's scale, multimodal design, and availability timeline, which helps readers gauge the open-weights landscape outside China.
AIIn NVIDIA's 2026 telecom AI survey, 89% of respondents said open source models and software are important to their AI strategy. Also, 66% said their company is actively using AI, up from 49% last year.
AINVIDIA says AT&T, SoftBank and Indosat are adopting open models for uses such as autonomous network operations, adapting them to local languages and industry needs. The post says NVIDIA provides the full stack to turn open models into specialized agents while keeping operators in control.
AIReflection AI has introduced Beam, an open agentic model with 501B total parameters and 23B active, trained end-to-end from scratch. Full weights are slated for release this month. Together AI congratulated the team and is hosting a NYC meet-up with Reflection and NVIDIA next week.
AICloudflare's Clef is trending at No. 1 on Hugging Face, according to a post from Hugging Face CEO Clément Delangue. The post does not provide details about what Clef is or what it does.
AINathan Lambert says it is a huge failure of the AI ecosystem that people respond to some unspecified situation with accusations of evil and shame. He says he will work to shift those norms, arguing that positive paths forward exist even though the path will be hard.
AIAMD has reached above 90% parity on upstream vLLM gating test groups this week, according to SemiAnalysis. The milestone followed months of work by AMD maintainers, including Andreas, and vLLM CI lead Kevin, plus SemiAnalysis supplying additional AMD GPUs to vLLM CI.
AIAMD made 502 commits to core vLLM over 90 days, accounting for 13% of all organizational contributions and almost four times Nvidia's count. The company credited Red Hat, IBM, Embedded LLM, and Inferact for building the project alongside it.
AIAt an event, @zainhas and @parthsareen of Ollama discussed evaluating open models against production traffic rather than relying only on benchmarks. The post offers no further details on methods, models, or results.
AITogether AI's Director of Field Engineering, Rochelle Mattern, delivered a keynote on shortlisting and evaluating open models. The post is a brief follow-up noting the speaker lineup, with no further details on specific models, benchmarks, or results.
AIKeras is moving to a pluggable backend design, with MLX and PaddlePaddle backends upcoming as add-on libraries. The team is reducing the operations needed to ship new backends and streamlining unit testing so a single harness can test all ops, such as casting consistency. KerasHub also gains many new models and is shifting its preprocessing from tf-text to PyGrain.
AINathan Lambert and Tom Zick have unveiled Trillium Labs, a new non-profit focused on the open science of frontier AI. The lab plans to build open post-training recipes and expand into open infrastructure to study topics such as RSI, reward hacking, and multi-agent systems. It is hiring, fundraising, and seeking compute, with support from Halcyon Futures and Schmidt Sciences.
AIRunway co-founder and co-CEO Cristóbal Valenzuela closed the Runway AI Summit by reflecting on the evolution of generative video. He also introduced Continuum, the latest project from Runway Labs. Full talks will be available on the Runway summit site after sign-up.