howdy, it’s Barsee again.

happy tuesday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

• Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6 puts open AI back in the race

• OpenAI is preparing a more active version of ChatGPT with Hermes

• Claude turns dashboards and tools into a prompt

• Apple’s new CEO takes over in the middle of AI war

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

VIKTOR

It's 4/20. Viktor's handling it

You know what today is. So does your whole team. Focus might be a little... scattered.

Viktor doesn't get distracted. Here's what it did today while your team was posting memes in #general:

• Pulled Stripe revenue and posted the weekly recap to your private channel. Churned accounts flagged, net-new breakdown included.

• Reviewed two pull requests on GitHub, cross-checked them with Linear tickets, and flagged a blocker in #engineering before standup.

• Marketing needed a Google Ads vs Meta comparison. Viktor built the PDF and dropped it in #growth. Took three minutes.

• Caught a Shopify checkout flow failing silently. Posted the alert to #ecommerce before revenue was lost.

• Drafted three vendor follow-up emails from Notion docs and sent them.

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

1/ Moonshot’s Kimi K2.6 puts open AI back in the race

Moonshot AI has open-sourced Kimi K2.6, a new coding agent delivering top results against models from OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google across major reasoning and software benchmarks. The model reportedly leads on tests like SWE-Bench Pro, BrowseComp, and Humanity’s Last Exam, while also performing strongly in longer sessions that matter more than one-shot prompts. Moonshot says K2.6 can run for 12 hours continuously, make more than 4,000 tool calls in a single session, and coordinate up to 300 parallel sub-agents on larger tasks.

Moonshot also introduced Kimi K2.6 Agent, a web-building system that can generate full production-ready websites from a single prompt, combining advanced design, interactive visuals, and backend infrastructure in one run. It builds with tools like React, TypeScript, Tailwind, and Three.js, while also wiring up features like authentication, databases, dashboards, and booking systems without a separate backend step. The release adds pressure on closed AI labs as open models move beyond benchmarks into practical products people can use immediately.

2/ OpenAI is preparing a more active version of ChatGPT with Hermes

OpenAI appears to be developing a new Agents platform for ChatGPT that would let users create, configure, and manage their own always-on AI workers under the codename Hermes. Early Studio references highlight roles like “Data Analyst” and “Chief of Staff,” suggesting OpenAI is moving beyond chatbots toward tools designed to help users build AI-driven teams and workflows. The platform reportedly includes templates to launch proven workflows in minutes, Slack-based agents that can handle common questions automatically, and customizable agents connected to tools, skills, files, memory, and schedules. Messaging such as “Keep work moving 24/7 with agents” points to a bigger shift where ChatGPT could evolve from an assistant you open on demand into software that works continuously in the background.

Also: OpenAl is hosting a livestream today at 12pm PT. (GPT Image 2, most likely.)

3/ Claude turns dashboards and tools into a prompt

Anthropic’s new Cowork feature lets Claude build live dashboards, trackers, and internal tools connected to apps like Slack, Salesforce, Google Drive, Asana, and Jira, with reports that refresh whenever reopened. Work that once required BI software, data pipelines, and technical teams can now begin with a prompt and a permission click. In one early example, Claude built a Google and Meta ads dashboard in under a minute, pulling campaign data, spotting trends, scheduling recurring tasks, and helping generate new creatives.

4/ Apple’s new CEO takes over in the middle of AI war

Apple has named longtime hardware chief John Ternus as its next CEO, with Tim Cook stepping down on September 1 after leading one of the most profitable runs in corporate history. Inside Apple, Ternus helped drive the shift to Apple Silicon, the chip transition that revived the Mac and reduced reliance on Intel Corporation processors. He has also overseen major launches across iPhone, iPad, AirPods, and the Vision Pro era, earning a reputation for disciplined execution and strong product instincts. His appointment comes as Apple remains dominant in devices but faces mounting pressure from rivals moving faster in AI.

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TRENDING TOOLS

• Public > For the first time ever, you can build AI agents that monitor the market, manage your cash, and execute your trades ^_(sponsored)

• Kimi K2.6 > Moonshot AI has open-sourced its latest model, pushing stronger open competition into the AI race

• HeyGen HyperFrames > HTML to MP4

• Claude Cowork > Anthropic users can now build live artifacts like dashboards and trackers that stay updated with current data

• AI Mode in Chrome > Google brings browsing and search side by side inside Google Chrome, so users can research without constantly switching tabs

WHAT I'M CONSUMING

• What will be scarce?

• I stumbled across my boyfriend's ChatGPT and it ended our relationship

• Andrej Karpathy just showed us how to build an AI second brain

• The 5 stages of AI grief

THE VALLEY GEMS

What’s trending on social today:

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