AI Agents Hour
Join Mastra cofounders Shane Thomas and Abhi Aiyer for weekly conversations about the latest in AI.
They discuss breaking AI news, chat with guests from the industry, and go deep on the technical challenges of building AI agents.
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February 4, 2026
#60
AI News: OpenClaw Drama, Google DeepMind's Project Genie, Kimi K2.5
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, humanoid robots, and emerging AI models.
January 27, 2026
#59
Mastra 1.0 Recap, Today I learned, ClawdBot, and the news!
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.
January 20, 2026
#58
Announcing Mastra 1.0, Kyle from ElectricSQL, Security Corner & News
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.
January 14, 2026
#57
Emerging Agent Primitives, Anthropic ships, Google+Apple
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.
January 6, 2026
#56
Ralph Wiggum, Opencode, AI News, can everyone be a developer?
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.
December 29, 2025
#55
Rebuilding Git in a weekend, 2025 AI Recap & 2026 AI Predictions
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.
December 22, 2025
#54
Skills the new MCP? Prompt Caching + Compression, Guest from Morning Brew
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.
December 15, 2025
#53
GPT 5.2, OWASP agentic top 10, guests from Roark & Foundry
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.
December 8, 2025
#52
Evals + Observability, Agent deployments, and AI News
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