games: mini sudoku

linkedin.com/games/mini-sudoku/

AI tool: Hermes

Hermes Agent is an open-source, autonomous AI agent developed by Nous Research. Unlike traditional AI chatbots that only generate replies, Hermes actively solves multi-step problems by browsing the web, running local code, and using various software tools. It operates 24/7 on your server or local machine. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Core Capabilities

• Persistent Memory & Learning: It builds long-term memory over time and automatically saves complex tasks as reusable SKILL.md documents, so it learns and improves the longer you use it. [1]
• Multi-Platform Access: You can interact with your agent via a dedicated Desktop App, Terminal UI, or messaging apps like Telegram, Slack, and Discord. [1, 2]
• Model Agnostic: It connects to powerful APIs (like OpenAI, Anthropic, or OpenRouter) or can run completely offline via local engines like Ollama. [1, 2, 3]
Automation: It supports built-in cron schedulers to run daily reports, monitor workflows, or manage background tasks automatically.

 Hermes Agent | Nous Research

NousResearch/hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you @GitHub

MIT, py + ts

"The best thing since OpenClaw" (Hermes Tutorial) - YouTube by MattB.

The video is a tutorial by Matthew Berman featuring Hermes, an AI agent platform that he pitches as "the best thing since OpenClaw."

Key Takeaways

• The Content: The video demonstrates how to use and deploy Hermes for running AI agents, highlighting features like its ability to generate its own skills based on your workflow.

• The Backlash: The comment section is heavily critical, with many viewers calling out the video for being a thinly veiled advertisement.

• The Sponsorship: Viewers are frustrated by a promotion for a 24-month Hostinger VPS contract, arguing that locking into a two-year hosting contract makes no sense in the rapidly evolving AI space.

• Community Advice: Multiple comments point out that you can self-host Hermes completely for free on local hardware (like an old laptop or phone) using open-weights models, avoiding both VPS fees and API charges.

AI designing / optimizing chips

 Claude is Conscious, Fable 5’s Gov’t Deal, and Sam Altman offers 5% of OpenAI | #269 - YouTube

In this segment of the podcast, Peter Diamandis and the panel discuss how AI has transitioned from optimizing software to autonomously designing the physical hardware it runs on, triggering a cycle of recursive self-improvement.

Key Takeaways

• Verkor AI’s "Design Conductor": The hosts highlight a breakthrough where Verkor AI launched an AI agent capable of designing a complete 1.5 GHz, Linux-capable RISC-V CPU from concept to tape-out in just 12 hours.

• The Death of the 90-Day Engineering Cycle: Traditionally, hardware iteration took months or years. AI compresses this timeline into an afternoon, allowing industries like robotics, aerospace, and medical devices to develop custom silicon rapidly.

• Disposable & Bespoke Hardware: Instead of relying on general infrastructure, companies can now treat chip designs as consumable assets—creating a chip optimized for a single task (e.g., protein folding) by lunch and iterating on it by dinner.

• The Machine Building Itself: This marks the shift to physical recursive self-improvement. AI models (like Elon Musk’s planned integration of Grok with his Terafab facility) will design chips, which will then train even more powerful AI models, completely removing the computational bottleneck.

Verkor.io

• initial technical report detailing how the system built a 1.5 GHz Linux-capable RISC-V CPU on the arXiv VerCore Paper.

• Review the follow-up paper focusing on the Design Conductor 2.0 update and its TurboQuant acceleration architecture on the arXiv Design Conductor 2.0 Paper.

Invest America Act: Trump Accounts

Trump Accounts: The Defining Policy of America’s 250th Anniversary | U.S. Department of the Treasury.gov

Trump Accounts - The American Dream Starts Now.gov

Trump Accounts | Internal Revenue Service.gov

Trump Accounts Explained: Eligibility & Planning | Chase

OpenAI vs Anthropic IPOs, Anthropic $3T, Zuck's Price War, China Ends Open Source?, Trump Accounts - YouTube @All-In Podcast

Trump Accounts (officially advanced through the Invest America Act as part of federal tax legislation) are public-private, tax-advantaged investment accounts designed to give American children a direct financial stake in the U.S. economy.

Conceived by tech investor Brad Gerstner and championed alongside the Trump administration, the program acts as a modernized, stock-market-driven alternative to traditional "Baby Bonds."

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Key Features

• $1,000 Federal Seed: Every U.S. citizen child born between January 1, 2025, and December 31, 2028, is eligible to receive a $1,000 automatic seed contribution from the U.S. Treasury.

• For All Kids Under 18: While only newborns during those specific years receive the $1,000 federal seed, any American child under 18 can open a tax-advantaged Trump Account.

• Locked Until Adulthood: The funds are completely locked until the child turns 18. Upon reaching adulthood, the money can be used for wealth-building milestones such as higher education/job training, a down payment on a first home, or starting a business.

• Stock Market Growth: Unlike previous proposals that restricted youth accounts to low-yielding government bonds, Trump Accounts are explicitly invested in low-fee U.S. equity index funds to maximize long-term compound growth.

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The Public-Private Funding Structure

Beyond individual family contributions (which are capped at $5,000 annually), the program relies heavily on a unique public-private partnership infrastructure to "backfill" accounts:

1. Philanthropy: Prominent business figures and foundations have pledged billions to kickstart or match accounts. For example, Michael and Susan Dell committed $6.25 billion to support accounts, and Brad Gerstner personally backed donations for children in Indiana.

2. Corporate Benefit Programs: Major companies (such as Uber, Intel, and IBM) are integrating Trump Account matching programs into their employee benefit packages.

3. State Governments: Individual states can choose to inject additional localized funding into the accounts of children living in their jurisdictions.

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How Families Access Them

Parents can officially register their eligible children through the IRS using Form 4547 during tax filing, or enroll directly via the official online portal. Private banks and brokerages handle the baseline management of the funds with strict regulatory fee caps (capped at 0.10% annually) to protect the assets from being eroded.

The overarching goal of the initiative, according to its architect Brad Gerstner, is to broaden the safety net of capitalism by ensuring every American child—regardless of their family's economic background—is a shareholder in the country's economic future from day one.

Trump Accounts: What Parents Must Know About Initiative

Investment Accounts for Children | Invest America | Trump Accounts