Coinbase and AWS integrate x402 into CloudFront and WAF, letting publishers charge AI agents per-request in USDC
x402 reaches mainstream cloud infrastructure via AWS CloudFront and WAF — covering ~25% of the internet — allowing any publisher to monetize AI agent traffic per-request in USDC on Base without new accounts or API keys; largest distribution footprint x402 has achieved to date.
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Prime Intellect releases prime-rl 0.6.0, enabling trillion-parameter MoE RL training on agentic workloads
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Nous Research releases Hermes Agent v0.17.0 'The Reach Release' with iMessage, WhatsApp, and async subagent support
Hermes Agent's v0.17.0 release expands from a desktop tool into a multi-channel agent platform (iMessage, WhatsApp, Raft network) with background subagents, representing a meaningful surface-area expansion for an open-source framework that has grown to 180k GitHub stars in four months.
Nous Research ships Hermes Agent v0.17.0 ('Reach Release'), adding iMessage, Raft agent network, background subagents, and image editing
A 1,475-commit release expanding Hermes across new messaging channels and enabling non-blocking subagent delegation signals accelerating product velocity ahead of what is expected to be a tokenization or mainnet milestone for Psyche Network.