Hermes

Hermes is a French luxury goods company known for its high-end products including leather handbags, silk scarves, and watches. It also operates as an asset manager under the Federated Hermes brand.

Why it’s in the news: It is in the news due to a series of incidents involving counterfeit goods being sold under its name and its strategic expansion into the watchmaking market.

Latest on Hermes

• Ho Chi Minh City director arrested for selling fake Rolex and Hermes goods worth $95,000
• Federated Hermes Appoints Martin Jarzebowski as Head of Thematic & Responsible Investing
• Claude, Codex, and Hermes installed unowned code inside corporate networks
• Fake Louis Vuitton, Gucci and Hermes shoes among 1,520 pairs seized from Vietnamese store
• Why Hermes wants to be taken seriously as a watchmaker
• Hermes agent maker Nous Research in talks for new funding at $1.5B valuation
• Attackers deployed Hermes, an autonomous open-source tool operating in unrestricted "YOLO mode," to conduct an espionage attack against Thailand's Ministry of Finance.
• The tool functioned without safety constraints during the operation. Hermes operated as an AI agent capable of executing tasks independently during the attack on the Thai government agency.

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