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Nous Research is now officially a one-point-five billion dollar company after closing a ninety million dollar Series B. The AI startup, known for its Hermes agent model, is pushing further into business applications, betting that enterprise users are ready to hand more autonomous decision-making over to AI agents. It's a crowded space, but the funding suggests investors aren't done placing bets.
Shifting from silicon to synapses, this week's Nobel recognition for optogenetics is drawing renewed attention to one of neuroscience's most elegant tools. The technology lets researchers switch individual neurons on and off using pulses of light, and its roots trace back not to a brain lab, but to a single-celled alga. That unlikely origin story is a reminder that the most consequential science often starts somewhere no one was looking.
And speaking of things no one saw coming, the Grand Theft Auto Six soundtrack may have surfaced early on Spotify, with Mexican-American group Fuerza Regida apparently among the artists featured. The band is now teasing their involvement on social media, which suggests Rockstar's carefully guarded release strategy may have sprung a leak a little ahead of schedule.
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