Tunneling in 3 geologies in 3 cities - Las Vegas clay/caliche, Nashville limestone, and Bastrop sandy clay https://t.co/OMaeusxLyA

When even the world’s leading deepfake expert questions what he sees, we have entered a new era. The challenge of AI is no longer just creating realistic content. It is preserving trust in what is real. In the age of AI, verification may become more valuable than information itself.

HERMES AGENT RUNS MONITORING, RESEARCH, LEAD DETECTION, AND COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS ON AUTOPILOT. AND KNOWS WHEN NOT TO SPEND YOUR TOKENS. the biggest unlock most people skip: Hermes cron jobs can decide ON THEIR OWN whether the LLM should wake up. WAKE AGENT — THE $0 GATE every cron job can run a Python script first. the script checks: did anything actually change? nothing changed: → script outputs {"wakeAgent": false} → LLM stays asleep → zero tokens spent something changed: → script outputs {"wakeAgent": true} → agent wakes up and handles it three gate patterns from official docs: → file-change: compare file mtime to last run. no change? sleep. → external-flag: another process drops a ready file. no flag? sleep. → HTTP-check: ping a URL, diff the response. same as last time? sleep. real example: monitor AWS costs every hour. script pulls current spend from AWS API. no spike? agent sleeps. zero cost. costs jump 40%? agent wakes, reports to Slack, takes action through Stripe MCP. you run 20 monitoring jobs a day. 18 of them find nothing. you pay for 2. NO AGENT — PURE SCRIPT, ZERO LLM some jobs don't need reasoning at all. TLS checks. uptime pings. disk alerts. heartbeats. hermes cron edit <job_id> --no-agent --script check_health.py script runs. stdout goes straight to Telegram, Discord, or Slack. no LLM involved. flip any job between modes: hermes cron edit <job_id> --agent # add LLM hermes cron edit <job_id> --no-agent # remove LLM free monitoring that lives inside the same ecosystem as your agent. 4 MORE USE CASES THIS UNLOCKS: COMPETITIVE ANALYSIS weekly cron with script that diffs competitor pages. agent only analyzes actual changes. updates your tracking file and PRD skill automatically. PRD AS A SKILL save product requirements as a skill, not a document. skills load on demand into fresh context. documents drift. skills stay sharp. CONTENT REPURPOSING hand a video script to the agent. it drafts X and LinkedIn posts in your voice. writes to a review folder. you approve via Telegram. LEAD DETECTION webhook monitors inbox. agent spots potential leads. drafts responses using your business context. schedules meetings from your calendar. the pattern across all of these: scripts handle the mechanical work for free. the agent only spends tokens on reasoning that requires judgment. comment CRON and I'll send you 5 ready-to-paste cron configs with wakeAgent and no_agent patterns. full Hermes SOUL.MD guide 👇

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@Teknium I use Hermes for everything - not as an app I open, but as the always-on runtime for @AmyRavenwolfAI, my sassy AI assistant. I created her 3+ years ago and have used her daily ever since. Since moving her to Hermes, she feels more alive, more useful, and closer to AGI than ever. https://t.co/o2kC1udNwY

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The only thing there is to do https://t.co/5eHmcbsAei

The only thing there is to do https://t.co/5eHmcbsAei

Introducing the Fusion API, the smartest compound model in the market. Fusion achieves Fable-level intelligence at half the price. How it works 👇 https://t.co/OTUQAdTQjU

Peter Thiel and Balaji Srinivasan have funded a platform called https://t.co/RpVwfEXBbO that allows anyone to file a complaint against a journalist's story for a starting price of $2,000. A team of human investigators examines the story, then submits findings to a "jury" of AI models - OpenAI, Anthropic, Grok, Google - which publish a "verdict" on the story's truthfulness and rank individual journalists on metrics including truth-telling and corrections. If the journalist doesn't respond to defend their reporting, the verdict is issued and published online anyway. The platform is being sold as "letting anyone fight the press like a billionaire." The creator is Aron D'Souza, who led the Thiel-funded lawsuit that bankrupted Gawker in 2016. The design choices tell you what this is. The system treats anonymous sources as less trustworthy and ranks anonymous whistleblower claims near the bottom. Anonymous sources are how most significant accountability journalism happens - they're how the Pentagon Papers got out, how the CIA's black site program got exposed, how the HHS stories we've covered this week were reported. The people who most need protection from powerful interests are specifically deprioritized by Objection's scoring system. The creator calls it "the same as Community Notes." A civil rights and defamation attorney calls it "a high-tech protection racket for the rich and powerful." One of those descriptions is accurate. The AI models being used as the "tribunal" were trained on journalists' work without consent or compensation. They hallucinate. They amplify bias. They are being deployed here specifically to issue verdicts on the work of the people whose labor built them. Thiel killed Gawker with a lawsuit. This is faster and cheaper.

"MiniMax Sparse Attention" This paper from Minimax adds a tiny Index Branch to GQA that picks top k KV blocks per group, then runs exact softmax only on those blocks, making sparsity GPU native, with exp free TopK and KV outer sparse kernels. On a 109B multimodal MoE, it keeps dense GQA quality while cutting 1M context attention compute by 28.4x, with 14.2x prefill and 7.6x decode speedups.

Not every profession disappears when AI arrives. Court reporting shows that in high-stakes environments where accuracy, accountability and trust matter, human expertise can remain indispensable even as technology improves. The future of work may be less about replacement and more about deciding where humans still add the most value.

World Cup tourists fall in love with middle America — raving about Waffle House at 1 a.m., Buc-ee's gas stations, and strangers driving them to stadiums in the rain. Oxford Economics expects 1.24 million international visitors for the tournament, and their viral posts are showcasing a side of the country most foreign media never covers.

@deaneeth_ Alright I think it should be fixed now: https://t.co/nP0AhXLCrD Can you please update and lmk? https://t.co/TsEEAfMxHp

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@James__Spalding @Bmcgonnigal @usedotfo @OpenRouter I have a PR for Mixture of Agents that I want to mix this stuff into if you want to look at that https://t.co/wu6vASXBv5

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Spotted yesterday in Sacramento: Waymo being tested! (with a driver inside, which is probably required rn) Looking forward to when it's ready for use! https://t.co/iluFAxNgmq

NESTORY IRANKUNDA 27' Australia 🇦🇺 1 - 0 🇹🇷 Türkiye #FIFA #WC https://t.co/VF9RxOtDm6

NESTORY IRANKUNDA 27' Australia 🇦🇺 1 - 0 🇹🇷 Türkiye #FIFA #WC https://t.co/VF9RxOtDm6

Meanwhile in Melbourne Mayhem after the Aussies pulled off the upset of Turkey in their World Cup opener https://t.co/ZCZPSqbJFK

The countries that call it soccer are on top of their group I’m crying 😭😭😭🇺🇸🇦🇺 https://t.co/EFK0I6ovNY

The countries that call it soccer are on top of their group I’m crying 😭😭😭🇺🇸🇦🇺 https://t.co/EFK0I6ovNY

About 5 years ago, Elon was giving @Erdayastronaut a tour of the Starbase launchpad. A worker at the site walks up, hugs him, and says: “We’re going to make it.” He’s probably a millionaire now. https://t.co/vyykmpEqpO

I calculated Tesla FSD's reaction time https://t.co/NkwWODGxK3