June 25, 2026

Happy Friday Photon Community,

This week at Photon: we're shipping markdown messages for iMessage, so your agent can send bold, italic, and code blocks; we also got a shiny new handle on X, and we're going to Vercel Ship in New York from June 30th to July 3rd. Find us at our NYC Consumer Founder Dinner on July 1st.

Feature Updates

Markdown Messages in iMessage

Your agent can now send formatted text in iMessage. Bold, italic, code blocks, and real structure, so messages read the way they're meant to.

• Send bold and italic text straight from your agent

• Drop in code blocks for clean, readable snippets

• Works natively in iMessage, no workarounds

View on X

Community Highlights

Postman Agents & APIs Meetup, SF

We took the stage at Postman's Agents & APIs Meetup to show the case for how you can interact with AI agents natively, right in your pocket through iMessage.

• We demoed live agents and a full mini app running inside iMessage

• Now users can tackle a complete complex task natively in iMessage

• Great room alongside Postman, Daytona, and Lix

Details on X

Community Highlights

Hermes Agent 0.17, Now on iMessage

AI influencer Alex Finn covered the biggest Hermes Agent update yet and walked through how to effectively apply Photon to your Hermes agent with the new release.

• Native iMessage support, powered by Photon, leads Hermes Agent 0.17

• His full walkthrough crossed 79K views and 66K on both X and YouTube

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Check it ou on X

Community Highlights

New Handle on X

We've got a new name on X. Find us at @PhotonHQ and say hi!

Check it out on X

Upcoming Events

NYC Consumer Founder Dinner

Join us for a dinner gathering of founders building the next generation of consumer apps this Wednesday, July 1st, 7:00-9:00 PM EDT over a Michelin-starred Dinner. Seats are limited.

• Topics: Join us for a discussion on how users actually interact with AI, what great onboarding looks like, and designing friction out of the experience for how users actually interact with AI.

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That's all for this week.

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