Hermes Bot Mode Review: This Is What Multi-Agent Hermes Should Feel Like
Hermes Bot Mode turns isolated Hermes profiles into a real roster of named agents with their own chats, routines, avatars, and agent-to-agent messaging. Here’s…
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Fresh signals from the archive
Murf Falcon 2 Undercuts ElevenLabs at 1 Cent a Minute
Murf AI's Murf Falcon 2 voice model is public at one cent per minute, a fifth of ElevenLabs pricing, with sub-100ms latency and enterprise…
Meta AI Lands on Mac With Screen Sharing and Dictation
Meta shipped its assistant to the desktop. The Meta AI Mac app beta adds window sharing, system-wide dictation, and hooks into your Instagram and…
Adobe Firefly’s AI Audio Tools Go Free to Try for Everyone
Adobe just made its Generate Music, Generate Speech, and Generate Sound Effects AI audio tools generally available in Firefly, and the Firefly AI Assistant…
Reviews
Tested gear and tools
iOS 27 Beta 5 Review: New Siri Controls, Fresh Icons, and a Massive Fix List
iOS 27 beta 5 is here with expanded Siri voice controls, Liquid Glass tweaks, search changes, and a massive fix list covering Siri, ChatGPT,…
Rabbit R1 Review: A Voice Remote for Your AI Stack
The Rabbit R1 isn't a phone replacement and never pretends to be. It's a $199 voice remote for your AI stack, and for people…
Hermes Agent v0.20.0 Herald Release: Hermes Finally Speaks
Nous Research dropped Hermes Agent v0.20.0, the Herald Release, on August 3. Real-time voice with barge-in, wake words, A2A v1.0, signed webhooks, and grounded…
Deals
Worth-a-look price drops
Samsung QN990F 65-Inch 8K TV Drops to $1,798 on Amazon for Prime Day (60% Off)
The Samsung QN990F 65-inch 8K TV just dropped to $1,798 on Amazon for Prime Day. That is $2,700 off the $4,498 list price, making…
Samsung S90F 55-Inch OLED Drops to $998 on Amazon for Prime Day (29% Off)
The Samsung S90F 55-inch OLED just dropped to $998 on Amazon for Prime Day. That is $400 off the $1,398 list price, making this…
Bose Ultra Open Earbuds Drop to $199 on Amazon for Prime Day (33% Off)
The Bose Ultra Open Earbuds just dropped to $199 on Amazon for Prime Day. That is $100 off the $299 list price, making this…
News
Tech news with context
Google’s Gemini Student Hub Bundles Free AI Study Tools
Google's back-to-school bundle adds a Gemini student hub, study notebooks, 3D visualizations, and Deep Research in Gemini Live, plus a free year of Google…
Cursor Origin: The First Agent-Native GitHub Rival
Cursor launched Origin, a code-hosting platform with repos, PRs, and GitHub sync. What shipped, which plans get it, and why GitHub's outages opened the…
Anthropic’s Claude Is Now Designing Proteins Like an Expert
Anthropic let Claude run whole protein design campaigns on its own, and the wet-lab numbers beat typical human-led hit rates. Here is what happened.
Guides
Practical tech walkthroughs
How to Use Cursor: The Practical Starter Guide
Learn how to use Cursor from install through your first Agent task: install the editor on macOS, Windows, or Linux, open Agent with Cmd+I,…
How to Use ChatGPT: The Practical Starter Guide
Learn how to use ChatGPT from your first chat through modes, tools, memory, projects, custom GPTs, and scheduled tasks, grounded in OpenAI's docs.
How AI Agent Safety Testing Actually Works
A plain-language walkthrough of AI agent safety testing: how AISI red-teams frontier models, what the Inspect sandbox does, and what incidents mean.
Takes
The industry read
Sam Altman’s ChatGPT Parenting Pitch, and the Internet’s Answer
Sam Altman wants parents to let ChatGPT narrate the drive to school. The internet's response says everything about how people feel about AI parenting.
Anthropic’s Fable 5 Circus Keeps Getting Worse. OpenAI’s Sol Makes It Embarrassing.
Anthropic extends Fable 5's deadline while OpenAI ships GPT-5.6 Sol in every subscription. The contrast says everything about who respects their users.
Sam Altman Is Equally Amazed by His Toddler and GPT-5.6 (and That’s the Most Honest Thing He’s Said All Year)
Sam Altman compares his kid's two-word milestone to GPT-5.6 discovering new math. It's hilarious, it's revealing, and it accidentally makes a deeper point than…
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Best 4K Monitors for Coding in 2026
8 4K monitors tested for coding in 2026, from budget to premium. BenQ RD280U 3:2, Dell UltraSharp, LG OLED, ultrawides, and more -- with…
Best Portable SSDs for AI Development in 2026
The best portable SSDs for AI development work, tested for sustained throughput, thermal stability, and speeds that actually matter when shuffling model weights and…
Prime Day Hangover: 5 Tech Deals That Didn’t Leave After the Sale Ended
Amazon Prime Day 2026 is over, but the deals didn't all vanish. I checked every price on Amazon myself. Here are 5 deals still…
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