As enterprises confront AI agent sprawl, xpander wants them to own their own control and context layer
Fortune 500 companies will have more than 150,000 AI agents by 2028, up from fewer than 15 in 2025, yet only 13% of organizations have adequate governance systems in place. Xpander.ai, founded by three former AWS principal engineers, launched a vendor-neutral control platform today to manage agent execution, permissions, observability, and lifecycle management across different models and infrastructure environments.
Read full story →Nous Research Ships Bot Mode for Hermes Agent, Turning Agent Profiles Into a Roster of Named Bots
Bot Mode for Hermes Agent now allows users to create a roster of named bots, each with individual chat histories, memory, skills, and pinned models. This feature is bundled and enabled by default in Hermes Desktop for the MIT-licensed open source agent.
ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR Introduces CUDA Agent: A Large-Scale Agentic RL System for CUDA Kernel Generation
ByteDance Seed and Tsinghua AIR released CUDA Agent, an agentic reinforcement learning system that trains a large language model to generate GPU kernels faster than compilers. On KernelBench, the base model Seed1.6 passes 74.0% of test cases.
Anthropic Run-Rate Revenue Hits $65 Billion as IPO Looms
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate reached $65 billion by late July 2026, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at the end of 2025. The company approaches an initial public offering as a run-rate projection based on recent short-period revenue extrapolated to a full year.