Nous Research, developer of the open-source Hermes Agent, has raised a $90 million Series B led by Robot Ventures and is launching Hermes for Businesses, letting companies deploy customized AI agents while keeping their data private.
Nippan Group Holdings has told the Japan Book Publishers Association that a subsidiary sold books to Anthropic from December 2024 to December 2025 but was not aware the purchases were for AI training, according to Jiji Press and Kyodo News.
At the Milken Institute Asia Summit and the Forbes Global CEO Conference in Singapore on October 7, investors and policymakers broadened AI worries beyond valuations to loss of control, AI-designed bioweapons and whether huge spending will pay off.
A new Reuters/Ipsos poll found 57% of registered voters say the Trump administration has not taken AI risks seriously enough, 54% say the same of Congress, and 84% see the technology as a threat to American workers.
Anthropic on October 7 released Claude Haiku 5.5, which it says costs around 75% less to run on average than Haiku 4.5 and is its fastest model to date, alongside a cache-price cut for Sonnet 5.5 and new monthly API credits for subscribers.
Teenage Engineering founder and CEO Jesper Kouthoofd told Highsnobiety that it plans to stop making synths. And yes, that includes the iconic OP-1, which put the company on the map.
While much of the automotive world sits dumbfounded as China gobbles up all its customers, BMW continues to roll out extremely well-crafted, technologically advanced electric vehicles that impress in…
