From AI Copilots to Agent Swarms
AMD achieved a 30 percent productivity boost through AI in software development, surpassing its initial 25 percent target within one year. The company is now developing collaborative swarms of AI agents that can discover solutions independently rather than simply mimicking existing human workflows.
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.