Hermes Agent v0.21.0 adds Bots Mode and subagent steering

A ComfyUI workflow scales photos to 960 px tall on a 2240x960 (21:9) canvas, pre-filling empty sides with mirrored photo edges to stop a grey edge bleeding through the VAE as a faint line. A soft mask lets Qwen paint the sides plus a 224 px band.

Community LoRA aims for phone-camera realism — real skin texture, harsh flash, grain, awkward framing — and merges v1 into a single file with no trigger word. Strength reportedly works from 1.0 upward.

A Gartner survey found just 13% of CIOs say their enterprise has realized significant or transformational value from AI. The press release is dated October 19, 2026.

On Lenny's Podcast, Anthropic's Emmanuel Ameisen describes the moment he realized Claude was better at SQL than he was, and discusses what happens when AI beats the expert.

A r/StableDiffusion thread relays an update and ETA on open-sourcing Krea 3, with commenters crediting CEO Vicc for staying true to the open-source community. No release date or license terms appear in the post.

A r/StableDiffusion post asks artists to upload models and LoRAs to Hugging Face as well as CivitAI, citing body-size sliders being deleted for MOSS image. The poster argues CivitAI is removing anything usable in ways that break its ToS.