Vol. I · No. 18THU, MAY 7, 2026
Topic

§ Agents & Tool Use

Every story tagged with this topic, ordered by date.

Why run local? Count the money

User quantifies cost savings from running local Qwen-397B with Hermes agent vs. API pricing: 200M tokens in 5 days ≈ $250 saved at API rates.

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Agents for financial services

Anthropic releases ten Cowork and Claude Code plugins plus Microsoft 365 integrations and MCP app for financial services.

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Does the "6 months gap" still hold?

Community discussion on whether open-source models' historical 6-12 month lag behind frontier systems persists after December 2025 agentic capability jump.

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