Agents Hour

Shane hosts this week's news from his usual studio while Abhi joins remotely from NVIDIA GTC 2026 in San Jose. Jensen Huang's keynote set the tone: NVIDIA is doubling down on AI factories, pushing 100x more token throughput, and helping bring OpenAI onto AWS infrastructure. RentAHuman is a startup that lets AI agents hire humans for physical tasks they can't do themselves.  Perplexity's CTO said i...

A lot happened in eight days.  Meta acquired Moltbook, a social network built entirely for AI agents, not humans.  OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 Thinking and GPT-5.4 Pro, Codex got forks for multi-agent workflows and Windows support, and there are rumblings of OpenAI building a GitHub alternative. Anthropic fired back hard — multi-agent PR code review for Claude Code, while loops via /loop, the Claude Ma...

Ismail Pelaseyed from Superagent is back on Agents Hour, and this time he's talking about something most builders aren't thinking about yet — supply chain attacks on AI agents. Guardrails protect against what you tell your agent to do. But what about everything your agent reads, fetches, and installs on its own? That's the gap Brin is built to fill. Brin is a free, open-source credit score for age...

This week in AI saw geopolitical turmoil, major funding news, and a shift in software development. Missile strikes in the UAE and Bahrain disrupted AWS and Claude services. Meanwhile, after Anthropic banned its models from autonomous weapons and mass surveillance, the Trump administration banned Anthropic from government contracts—posing a major supply chain risk. On the same day, Sam Altman secur...

Yujohn from Mastra explains why datasets and experiments are essential for building production-grade AI agents. If you're building an agent, you need a way to verify it's working correctly before and after you make changes. Datasets provide that baseline. You create a collection of test cases (ground truth) that represent the scenarios your agent should handle. Then you run experiments: pass each...

Abhi walks through Mastra Code, a new open-source coding agent with observational memory that compresses context without losing it. When we built Observational Memory, we needed a way to test it in production. Instead of a standard bot, we dogfooded it: we built a coding agent and used it ourselves. Writing code every day quickly revealed whether the memory actually worked. Eventually, something c...

Shane and Abhi break down the biggest AI news from the past few days.  Anthropic identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on Claude by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax. Anthropic also released a groundbreaking report analyzing millions of AI agent interactions using Claude. Software engineering makes up ~50% of all agentic tool calls, but there's emerging use across back office automatio...

Shane and Abhi welcome Charlie Holtz from Conductor to AI Agents Hour. Charlie shares how frustration with managing multiple Claude Code instances led to building Conductor. They discuss Conductor's July 2025 launch as the first agent orchestration Mac app, early design choices, and its impact on the market. Charlie outlines a future in which agents run 10x longer and require less supervision, alo...

It's time for another AI News roundup with Shane and Abhi! This week was absolutely massive. Matt Shumer's viral article about AI automation, which describes his own job being automated in real time, has reached 84 million views. Anthropic raised $30 billion at a $380B valuation (one of the largest private raises in tech history). Claude Sonnet 4.6 launched with a 1M token context window. And the...

Tyler Barnes, founding engineer at Mastra, introduces Observational Memory. It is a new memory system for AI agents that achieves state-of-the-art results on LongMemEval with a completely stable context window. Unlike semantic recall (which uses RAG and invalidates prompt caching), Observational Memory compresses conversations into dense observations while maintaining a stable, fully cacheable con...

Shane and Abhi cover top AI stories. This week was absolutely massive! Anthropic aired Super Bowl ads mocking OpenAI's decision to put ads in ChatGPT, Opus 4.6, and GPT-5.3-Codex launched within 15 minutes of each other, and then ClawHub dropped a bombshell: 11.9% of the entire marketplace is malware. We cover everything: Anthropic's competitive jabs, the model war benchmarks, Claude's 1M token co...

Shane and Abhi welcome Kiet Ho, cofounder of Superset, to discuss how Superset evolved from simple WorkTree management into a full-featured tool with file editing, automation, cloud support, and multi-agent orchestration.

Shane and Abhi cover this week's top AI developments. The OpenClaw agent goes viral amid growing security concerns over its shifting identity. Moonshot AI's Kimi K2.5 ties for first place on Design Arena. Google DeepMind unveils Project Genie, advancing world model technology. Anthropic previews a new model and explores AI coding with Claude Cowork plugins. Plus, updates on developer tools, humano...

Today we discuss the Mastra 1.0 launch, we talk about the things we are learning, we discuss ClawdBot (renamed to MoltBot and now OpenClaw). We also discuss agent skills, new models, and how agents are reading more docs pages than humans.

Today we announce Mastra is officially 1.0! We talk with Kyle from ElectricSQL (and formerly Gatsby) about Durable Streams. Allie joins us to discuss the code review security problem that can be caused by generated AI code. Finally, we cover all the AI news from the last week including ads in ChatGPT, the Langfuse/Clickhouse acquisition, and the OpenAI / Cerebres partnership.

Today we discuss a rising star, we talk about the emerging agent primitives, and we cover downstream effects of a world where agents are now the primary users of a lot of products/tools. We cover Anthropic news, the Google+Apple partnership, model companies going public, AI in healthcare, and much more.

Who is Ralph Wiggum and why are developers talking about him? We also discuss the rise of opencode and if everyone can be a developer now. And of course, we cover all the latest in AI news.

Today we talk about how Abhi tried to rebuild Git over the holiday weekend. We also review everything that happened in the world of AI and agents in 2025. Finally, we give our 2026 predictions for what we think will happen next year.

Are Agent Skills going to be the new MCP? Today we do a deep dive discussion on Prompt Caching as well as compression. We cover all the latest AI news and finally have a guest from Morning Brew join the show.

Today we talk about GPT 5.2, Claude Code updates, and all the other AI news. On top of that we cover the OWASP agentic top 10 with Allie and have guests from Roark and Foundry join the show.

Today we talk with some guests (Alex from Mastra & Laurie from Arize) about evals and observability. We chat with Lio and Kevin from Defang about deploying agents to AWS/GCP/Azure. And of course we cover all the latest AI news

We talk with a special guest about running parallel CLI coding Agents. Abhi goes into depth on slash commands he is using as well as a general Opus 4.5 review. There are a ton of new models (including some new video models) that we will chat about!

It's a showdown between Opus 4.5 and Gemini 3! Today we discuss our first impressions, what we are hearing, and how the new models stack up on the benchmarks. In the future, will there agents in every slack? How is the Mastra v1 coming along? What other AI news is going on? Abhi and Shane talk with others from the Mastra team to find out! We also chat with Tony from Runloop.

Today we finally talk about all the Chinese LLM companies that you should know about. We preview the Great MCP Debate with Allie, and discuss all the AI news.

Today we talk about MCP and about all the recent online conversations around how much it sucks. We discuss the TypeScriptAI Conf, have Ismail from Superagent join us, and do all the normal AI news.