IM 874: Google Knows I Love the Pepper Cannon - AI and the New Social Contract

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Discover how a homegrown AI agent is outsmarting big-brand competitors, letting users tailor digital assistants with real memory and skills. The future isn't just smarter models, but everyday tech that learns exactly how you work. • Hermes AI agent's launch, mass adoption, and personalized capabilities • Open source vs. proprietary AI: model access, privacy, and funding hurdles • Apple's next-gen Siri and agentic platform ambitions unpacked • Nous Research model development, Nvidia partnerships, and training challenges • The risk of an "AI underclass" and ethics in model distribution • Anthropic's Fable release: strict guardrails, silent model downgrades, and open source tensions • Local…