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Anyone can hack anything now! (This Week In AI)

October 28, 2026 · 35 min

Security had a rough week. Two old PHP bugs combined into a critical remote code execution flaw that leaked before the patch; GitLab disclosed a 12-year-old hole in self-managed servers; the private keys behind eight eMudhra certificates…
AGI was achieved on a Zoom call

October 20, 2026 · 21 min

Brad Leford has been building software for 20 years and now spends most of his time helping small businesses figure out AI. His new side project, Plum, is a video calling app built for teams and AI agents. Any agent from any harness can…
Le Chonk! Also: Espionage at OpenAI

October 16, 2026 · 31 min

OpenAI found a recording device hidden in one of its offices and traced it back to an employee. Meanwhile the model releases kept coming: Mistral Large 4 aka Le Chonk, Claude Haiku 5.5, Meta's Muse Wonder and Gemini 4 Argon, which is…
AI broke CI. Now what?

October 9, 2026 · 17 min

AI agents write code faster than CI can check it. GitHub reports a 4x jump in Actions minutes since 2023, and Anthropic says CI became its biggest bottleneck after job volume grew 25x in six months. Daniel Worku, co-founder and CTO of…
Is Google finally back? (This Week In AI)

October 6, 2026 · 35 min

Anthropic's IPO prospectus leaked, showing a $2 trillion valuation target on $4.6 billion in revenue, with a quarter of that coming from two customers. Google is back in the frontier race with Gemini 4 Argon, which tops the Vals Index and…

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OpenAI DevDay: Worth the Hype?

October 1, 2026 · 23 min

OpenAI DevDay 2026 happened, so Shane and Abhi jumped on a special live episode of Agents Hour to go through everything that was announced and share their takes. The big launch is Dots, OpenAI's always-on personal agent, which arrives…
Opus 5.5 launches: is Anthropic back?

September 29, 2026 · 32 min

Anthropic might be back. Opus 5.5 performs at Fable 5.1 level for 40% less, and Sonnet 5.5 dropped the same day we went live, beating Opus on Terminal-Bench 4. OpenAI answered with GPT-6 Sol and Luna and a rumored long-running agent called…
Should You Train Your Own Model?

September 28, 2026 · 24 min

Welcome back to Builders Learn ML with Professor Andy! In this episode we're talking about training your own AI models. Should you train your own model? Maybe. But probably not yet. If you haven't nailed your prompts, workflows and evals…
We Tried Jev To See If It's Any Good - This Week In AI

September 22, 2026 · 31 min

This week, X could not stop talking about Jev, a viral new "decision model" that hit 38 million views on launch. Shane and Abhi break down what it actually is, and Abhi builds with it live in seven demos. Jev is not an LLM. Instead of…
"Do You Think AI Is Gonna Kill Us?" | This Week In AI

September 16, 2026 · 28 min

This week AI doom went mainstream, and Shane and Abhi spend most of the show untangling it. Live from San Diego, they trace how one post racked up 171 million views plus a WSJ exclusive that ran before the post itself, kicking off the…
Why Your AI Agent Gets Brain Damage, and How to Fix It - Tyler Barnes, Mastra

September 15, 2026 · 23 min

Tyler Barnes is a founding engineer at Mastra and the person behind its memory systems. In this chat with Shane, he explains observational memory - Mastra's fix for the thing every coding agent does where it fills up its context, compacts…
GPT-6 Astra vs Claude Fable 5.1, We Should Pause AI & The Benchmark Wars | This Week In AI

September 9, 2026 · 27 min

GPT-6 Astra is finally here, and it changes what a model launch even looks like. Shane and Abhi open on the trailer for "Artificial" (Andrew Garfield as Sam Altman, in theaters Christmas), then get into the launch everyone's talking…

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About the show

The AI Agents show that discusses hot topics in the world of AI, talks with guests building AI agents and applications, and shows the actual code of how AI applications are being built today. Hosted by Shane Thomas and Abhi Aiyer from Mastra. Watch the livestream on Youtube and X on Monday at 12PM pacific time. Watch the video versions on Spotify or YouTube.