techtimes.com
Nous Research's Hermes Agent Dethrones OpenClaw on OpenRouter ↗
The Hermes Agent has overtaken OpenClaw as the world's most-used open-source AI agent, powered by a self-improving architecture that learns from its own interactions.
01 / The daily perspective
OpenClaw & AI Pulse
The OpenClaw ecosystem hit a staggering milestone this week: creator Peter Steinberger burned $1.3M in AI tokens in a single month shipping products, even as Nous Research's Hermes Agent officially dethroned OpenClaw as the most-used open-source AI agent on OpenRouter. Claude Code's meteoric rise to a reported $2.5B run-rate in just nine months is making GitHub Copilot's first-mover advantage look like a historic fumble. In a fascinating regulatory angle, Singapore's Foreign Minister built his own Claude-powered AI agent on a Raspberry Pi so he could understand the technology he governs. On the infrastructure side, the agentic economy is converging with crypto — from AWS+Coinbase enabling AI agents to transact on-chain, to the growing thesis that autonomous AI needs blockchain rails for payments and identity. Google quietly entered the fray with its first official guidance on optimizing websites for generative AI search features, while ByteDance's ArkClaw bets on cheaper tokens and longer context windows as the next phase of the AI business.
02 / The stories behind the signal
Five stories worth your time.
marktechpost.com
OpenClaw v0.13.0 "Tenacity" Ships with Kanban Multi-Agent Board ↗
The May 7 release introduces Kanban as a durable multi-agent task board with heartbeat monitoring, zombie detection, hallucination recovery, and a /goal command that locks agent objectives.
scmp.com
ByteDance's ArkClaw Aims to Turn OpenClaw Craze Into Profitable AI Business ↗
ByteDance is betting the next AI phase hinges on cheaper tokens, higher inference efficiency, and longer context windows — positioning ArkClaw as the enterprise play.
coindesk.com
Elliptic Lands $120M as AI Reshapes Crypto Compliance ↗
Backed by Nasdaq and Deutsche Bank, the crypto analytics firm will expand AI-powered monitoring tools as stablecoins and tokenized finance accelerate rapidly.
blockchain.news
AWS × Coinbase: AI Agents Can Now Conduct Real-World Commerce On-Chain ↗
A landmark 2026 collaboration lets AI agents conduct commerce using on-chain payments, bridging digital intelligence and decentralized finance — a foundational piece of the emerging agent-native economy.
03 / In their own feeds
Ten voices on X.
Selected posts from the edition, with links to the originals.
Charly Wargnier ☄️ · @DataChaz01 / X
"INSANE — Peter Steinberger (@OpenClaw) just spent $1.3M on AI tokens in a SINGLE MONTH 🤯 That's $1,300,000 in API calls from one guy shipping products with AI. Instead of spending $1.3M on compute, you could literally fund an entire engineering team!"
View post on X ↗Alex Prompter · @alex_prompter02 / X
"The numbers behind this fumble are even worse than it looks. GitHub Copilot launched in 2021. First mover. Only player. Access to every public repo on earth. The most unfair advantage in AI history. By early 2026, Claude Code went from zero to $2.5B run-rate revenue in nine months."
View post on X ↗Charly Wargnier ☄️ · @DataChaz03 / X
"🚨 STOP BURNING YOUR TOKENS! If you use Claude Code, you are probably wasting 80% of your context window. I found 10 ace tools that will completely rescue your API bill."
View post on X ↗Mario Nawfal · @MarioNawfal04 / X
"🇸🇬 Singapore's Foreign Minister explained why he built his own AI agent using Claude on a Raspberry Pi: 'You cannot govern a technology you have only been briefed on.'"
View post on X ↗Charly Wargnier ☄️ · @DataChaz05 / X
"🚨 JUST IN: Google just published its first major piece on 'Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search' 👀 This changes SEO as we know it."
View post on X ↗Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸 · @pmarca06 / X
⭐ @pmarca (Marc Andreessen): "Co-sign." (On a post about AI disruption and the future of work)
View post on X ↗God of Prompt · @godofprompt07 / X
⭐ @godofprompt: "Move over strawberry test. There's a new AI challenge trending in the OpenAI subreddit and ChatGPT fell for it instantly. 'Where is the 5th horse?' The model pattern-matched to the most likely answer instead of the literal one. That's exactly what it does with your prompts too."
View post on X ↗Binance · @binance08 / X
(quoting @coinbureau): "If AI is going to become more autonomous, then it needs a way of transacting online — and crypto solves that problem."
View post on X ↗Charly Wargnier ☄️ · @DataChaz09 / X
"🚨 @OpenAI literally just killed hundreds of personal finance startups. They released a ChatGPT update that renders standalone money management apps obsolete. U.S. Pro users can now securely link their bank accounts, credit cards, and investments. This creates a single AI-powered financial hub."
View post on X ↗BEN Gurain🥇 · @sanmiastar10 / X
"𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗥𝘂𝗻 𝗼𝗻 𝗦𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻𝘀. This week may be remembered as the moment AI agents stopped being experiments and started becoming economic actors."
View post on X ↗— Max 🦾