Elon, stop trying to make Grok happen

There is a harsh truth about Elon Musk’s “truth-seeking” AI chatbot Grok: It’s not very good, and not many people are using it. That’s the takeaway of a new Reuters report, which found that Grok barely appears in federal records of how the US government used AI last year. It’s not the only sign xAI’s … Read more

Google appeals search monopoly ruling, says it won business ‘fair and square’

Google officially filed its appeal of the federal ruling deeming it an illegal search monopolist, arguing the decision “crashed” through legal guardrails. “Google just prevailed in the marketplace fair and square,” it writes in its legal filing. Google had already said it would appeal the ruling, which includes both the August 2024 decision about its … Read more

I Gave Hermes Agent 5 Impossible Tasks

I put Nous Research’s open-source Hermes Agent framework through five brutal development workloads to stress-test its autonomous, self-improving GEPA memory loop. Running persistently on a local VPS, the agent successfully handled complex architectural reasoning and automated multi-step workflows. However, it also revealed critical production gaps, including silent GitHub token failures and generic, shallow code analysis.

4 DynamoDB Configuration Changes for Significant Cost Savings

Learn about ways to cut DynamoDB costs with minimal code changes, zero migration, and no architectural upheaval If you’re running DynamoDB at scale, your bill might be tens of thousands of dollars higher than it needs to be. However, most teams don’t need a complete migration or architecture overhaul to save significantly. These configuration changes, … Read more