Every week, I organize 400 to 700 links into roughly 60 categories as part of my ongoing effort to learn about AI. This is my personal notebook, which I enjoy sharing with friends… a hobby and a labor of love, rather than a commercial publication or product.
If you arrived here through a search or shared link, this page collects the links I found for Nous Research for the week ending August 28, 2026.
As part of my learning process, I like to automate the category covers. It gives me a chance to learn Python and APIs.
This week’s cover prompt was written using Claude Opus 4.7, and the image was generated using Nano Banana 2.1.
Category Cover Image Prompt: A 16:9 mid-1980s murder-mystery movie poster of a wide black-and-white engraved gothic Victorian mansion on pure black, with the fat rounded white title 'Nous Research' above the roofline; warm amber windows reveal costumed suspects posed as hooded philosopher-hackers holding scrolls labeled with open-weight sigils, a crowded still life of daisy-chained consumer GPUs and tangled ethernet cables as distributed-training evidence, and one window with a sly silhouette passing a glowing USB drive through a curtain. At center the open front door frames the same slim silver-haired butler in black tailcoat and white gloves, holding a silver tray with a single envelope sealed in wax shaped like a tiny classical Greek herm bust, campy theatrical lighting, dense crosshatching and stipple linework.
This Week in Nous Research News
Summary by Claude Sonnet 5.5 based on this week’s links:
The standout this week was real-profile browsing in Hermes Agent. Nous Research and Teknium both announced that you can let the agent use a managed copy of your existing Chrome profile when it drives the browser tool, so it acts with your logins. It is a toggle in the browser tool settings.
On the model side, Carnice-V3-27b was announced by Kaio Stephens as a 27 billion parameter open-source model built on Qwen3.8-27B, claimed to beat models ten times its size in Hermes-agent and sized to run on a 3090 or better. Teknium also pointed to a Blank Slate mode that turns off all non-crucial tools and skills.
This summary was generated by Claude Sonnet 5.5 to help you explore the links below. Rest assured, I select, organize, and check the links by hand in Google Sheets, and write the introduction and personal commentary in The Main Newsletters myself each week as a labor of love.
This week's links related to Nous Research
Hermes Agent can now seamlessly browse as you. Turn on real-profile browsing and your agent acts with your logins, from a managed copy of your existing Chrome profile.”
https://x.com/NousResearch/status/2093063359587348487
You can now allow Hermes Agent to use your real default browser profile when it drives the browser tool, giving your agent logged in access to your world. Toggle it on in your browser tool settings to get started!”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2093064288877547760
Welcome 🚀Carnice-V3-27b! 🚀 → Carnice is a 27 billion parameter model capable of beating models 10x the size in Hermes-agent, fully open-source and built on top of Qwen3.8-27B →Build to fit on Consumer GPU on a 3090+ to run locally🔥 →A full merged BF16 Qwen3.8-27B”
https://x.com/kaiostephens/status/2091710751509475543
Want to test how good GLM-5.3-Flash is? I have been finding it useful for visual explainers using /eli5. Try it with Pi or Hermes Agent in our new agent playground:
https://x.com/omarsar0/status/2092667990273663311
@realdarkedx You can also use Blank Slate mode, to disable all non-crucial tools, and all skills:”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2090756018045321641
Ox Alpha now available in Hermes Agent through @opencode and @OpenRouter!”
https://x.com/Teknium/status/2090674052058984513
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