Hermes Agent Connectors Add RBAC and Tool Guardrails
Nous Research released 50+ Hermes Agent connectors with RBAC controls, operational boundaries, and local execution that requires no account.
Waymo Opens Robotaxi Service Across Three US Cities
Waymo opened its robotaxi service to everyone in San Antonio, San Diego, and Tampa, ending waitlists and connecting San Antonio International Airport.
Fired OpenAI Safety Researchers Demand Inspectable AI
Three fired OpenAI safety researchers urge the industry to halt frontier models whose chain-of-thought reasoning cannot be inspected by human evaluators.
Inworld Inference API Pairs Fast Open Models with Voice
Inworld Inference launches with low latency for Gemma 4 and open models, bundling OpenAI-compatible completions with real-time text-to-speech.
OpenTelemetry in Claude: Anthropic Adds Native Traces
Anthropic rolled out native OpenTelemetry traces in Claude, exporting agent latency, tool calls, and token metrics directly to enterprise OTLP collectors.
Nvidia Rubin Delivers 4.2x Cost Efficiency in Inference
SemiAnalysis benchmarks show Nvidia Rubin running SGLang delivers 4.2x better cost efficiency on a 180B MoE model compared to Blackwell GB300 systems.
TSMC Wafer Prices Surge on AI Boom as Competitors Lag
SemiAnalysis data shows TSMC wafer prices and profit margins surged with AI chip demand, leaving foundry competitors like Samsung and UMC far behind.
Baseten Deploys Runway Video Models to Dedicated Clouds
Runway and Baseten partner to bring Gen-4.5 and Aleph 2.0 video models to dedicated enterprise cloud clusters with direct weight licensing.
Meta Confirms Muse Spark Open Weights
Meta confirmed it will release open weights for Muse Spark soon, while keeping its flagship Muse Wonder models locked behind proprietary APIs.
Intel Uses AI Agents to Speed Up Chip Design Rules
Intel showed how AI agents cut PDK design rule cycles by more than half and navigated a 350-dimension fab problem with 10^700 combinations in months.