AI News Today | Julian Goldie Podcast

Claude Sonnet 5 Review: More Expensive, Worse Than Opus 4.8? (Benchmarks & Agent Tests) The video reviews Anthropic’s newly released Claude Sonnet 5, described as more agentic and capable of planning and tool use, but argues it underperforms Opus 4.8 on benchmarks (including agentic coding) while costing more. The creator shares Goldy Bench examples Sonnet 5 generated (a ray caster maze, a bro...

Export Controls Lifted: Fable 5 & Mythos 5 Returning Tomorrow (Official Anthropic Update) The episode reports that U.S. export controls on Anthropic’s Fable 5 and Mythos 5 have been lifted, citing a tweet and Anthropic’s official June 30, 2026 announcement that access will begin being restored tomorrow (likely within 24–48 hours). It notes Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s statement about wo...

Huge Hermes Agent Update: Build Scalable Multi-Agent Teams Discover the massive new update to Hermes agent that fixes database concurrency and unlocks scalable multi-agent Kanban boards. Learn how to build a Content Factory that runs multiple agents in parallel without freezing to automate complex SEO and content workflows. This update effectively removes the cap on multi-agent collaboration for f...

Grok 4.5 (V9) Announced: Private Beta, Opus Comparisons, and Why Systems Beat Model Hype Grok 4.5 has been announced as a new update based on a 1.5 trillion V9 foundation model, with Cursor data included for supplemental training, and is currently in private beta at SpaceX and Tesla. Early evaluations suggest performance close to or possibly exceeding Opus 4.8, and Elon Musk frames V9 as a solid w...

I Built a Claude Agent Operating System (Mission Control for AI Agents & Workflows) The video showcases a custom “Claude agent operating system” built as a mission control dashboard that unifies AI agents, CLIs, and one-click workflows for tasks like pulling trending news (Hermes Oracle), generating SEO and social content, images/thumbnails, AI avatar videos, and even music, with daily auto-or...

Hermes Mixture of Agents 2.0: Beat Frontier Models with a Panel of AI Agents (Agent OS Demo + Benchmarks) Julian demonstrates a new Hermes Mixture of Agents 2.0 setup that stacks multiple models as a panel of agents inside Hermes Agent, aggregating one prompt across several models into a stronger final output. He says he tested 42 builds with the same prompts and shows a leaderboard where systems...

China’s Open GLM 5.2 Matches Anthropic Mythos in Cybersecurity—Why Systems Matter More Than Models The script discusses a Wall Street Journal–reported claim that China’s ZAI model GLM 5.2 matches or beats Anthropic’s highly restricted Claude Mythos on cybersecurity benchmarks like discovering and exploiting software vulnerabilities, despite Mythos being gated to a small vetted group and Fable 5 be...

One-Sentence App Builder: Idea → Plan → Approve → Shipped in Minutes (Hermes Agent + Agent OS) The video demonstrates an app builder system inside an Agent OS using Hermes Agent to turn a single sentence idea into a working single-page app with minimal clicks. The workflow is: enter an idea, agents classify it and draft a plan, you approve or deny, and a coder agent builds, tests, and fixes bugs b...

Hermes Agent OS: Mission Control Dashboard for Voice Agents, News, Studio, Outreach & MoE Intelligence The video walks through the Hermes Agent Operating System, a UI-based “mission control” dashboard that organizes Hermes Agent and its tools into multiple mini apps to make it more powerful than using Hermes in desktop or terminal form. It demonstrates voice and chat control (including browser...

Qwable 27B Coder: Best Local Coding Model Yet? (Benchmarks, Demos & How to Run on Mac) The video demos Qwable 27B Coder, a new open-source local coding model on Hugging Face (updated end of June) built on a Qwen 3.6 27B base, showing projects made locally like a polished animated landing page and working games. It’s run on a Mac Studio (Apple M4 Max, 36GB) using Apple MLX (not available via Ol...

Agent OS Q&A: Using Codex, Claude Code, Local LLMs (Ollama), GLM 5.2, Updates, Memory & Team Setup Julian answers recent community questions about his Agent Operating System, a system for linking and automating AI agents with tools like voice control (Hermes Jarvis), Memory Galaxy, Kanban orchestration, and a local agent engine. He explains multiple ways to use a Codex subscription inside...

Ornif 1.0: Free Self-Learning Local Coding Model (Runs on Ollama + Works with Hermes Agents) The video tests Ornif 1.0, a new free self-learning local open coding model from Deep Reinforce, showing benchmark comparisons where it outperforms models like Gemma 4 31B and even compares well against larger flagship options. The model can be downloaded via Ollama with a simple command and is integrated...

Qwythos 9B on Ollama: A Free, Private Claude-Style Local Model (1M Context?) The video tests Qwythos 9B, a Claude-style creative reasoning model built on a Qwen 3.5 9B base and available on Ollama, showing how to install and run it locally on a Mac for free with no cloud or token costs. The creator wires it into their Agent OS local engine and demonstrates it building several small apps (to-do lis...

Agent Operating System Q&A: Model Restrictions, Local AI, Hermes Jarvis, SEO & Video Automation The episode answers community questions about the Agent Operating System and how to get the most from it, highlighting Hermes Oracle for news and SEO automation, Hermes Jarvis as a voice-activated agent, and managing all agents and client instances from one interface using separate profiles. It...

Hermes Agent Mixture of Agents (MoA) Presets: Build a Model Panel to Beat Gated Frontier Models Hermes Agent has released Mixture of Agents (MoA) Presets, allowing multiple AI models to run in parallel and be aggregated into a single stronger answer, similar to systems like Fusion and Sakana Fugu. The script explains this as a workaround for gated or limited-preview frontier models (e.g., GPT 5.6...

GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra & Luna: Limited Preview, Benchmarks, Access (and Why Systems Beat Models) The episode breaks down OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 release, explaining that it’s currently a limited preview available only to about 20 partner organizations via Codex and the API at the request of the US government, with general access hoped for in the coming weeks and possibly restricted by country. It introdu...

Agent OS Q&A: Using Codex, Claude Code, Local LLMs, GLM 5.2, Team Setups, Updates & AI Video Editing Julian answers recent community questions about his Agent Operating System, a system for linking and orchestrating AI agents with features like voice control via Hermes Jarvis, a Memory Galaxy connected to an Obsidian vault, Kanban orchestration, and a local agent engine. He explains multip...

GPT 5.6 (Sol/Terra/Luna) & Claude Mythos/Fable 5 Are Gated—Here’s How to Beat Frontier Models Without Access The script covers two announcements: OpenAI’s GPT 5.6 models Sol, Terra, and Luna are released only in a limited US government–requested preview to a small group of trusted partners, with no confirmed public release date, and Anthropic’s Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5 are also gated to abo...

GPT-5.6 May Be Government-Gated: What It Means (and Why Systems Matter More Than Models) The script discusses reports from Axios and The Information claiming the Trump administration asked OpenAI to stagger GPT-5.6’s release, limiting access to government-approved partners during a preview period due to security and cybersecurity concerns, with two federal offices vetting and approving customers o...

My AI Agent Operating System (Mission Control to Automate SEO, Content, Outreach & Builds) The speaker demos an “agent operating system” dashboard that centralizes and orchestrates multiple AI agents to automate building projects, generating and publishing content, and running workflows. The system includes a group chat for CLIs, an idea-to-implementation pipeline, and tools like Hermes Oracle...