GPT-5.6 is here — Sol, Terra, and Luna — but for the first time, the US government decides who gets access, approving customers one by one. Shane and Abhi dig into what that precedent means for competition, open models, and every lab that comes next.

Then a stacked week: OpenAI's own Jalapeño chip, open models pushing hard (Qwen AgentWorld, DeepSeek DSpark, Hermes mixture-of-agents), the model-routing wave (AI SDK 7, Devin Fusion), Claude Tag's viral moment and the Trojan-horse worry, voice agents on Vercel, Coinbase on keeping AI spend flat, a16z's $200M "seed" for Mirendil, npm finally freezing accounts after the Axios and Mastra attacks, Meta's think-to-text Brain2Qwerty, the DevRel Google fired over a viral CLI, and Fable's return after 15 days offline.

AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific.

📚 READ MORE
GPT-5.6 Sol/Terra/Luna: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2070555272230384038
Restricted rollout: https://x.com/steph_palazzolo/status/2070241787180966279
Jalapeño chip: https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2069770172802773292
Qwen AgentWorld: https://x.com/Alibaba_Qwen/status/2069720365442719867
DeepSeek DSpark: https://x.com/Yuchenj_UW/status/2070928299744972814
Hermes Mixture of Agents: https://x.com/NousResearch
AI SDK 7: https://x.com/vercel/status/2070155382488764566
Devin Fusion: https://x.com/cognition/status/2071624568465490170
Tau harness: https://x.com/_alejandroao
Claude Tag (Karpathy): https://x.com/karpathy
Claude Tag Trojan horse: https://x.com/ashwingop
Open Tag: https://x.com/ataiiam
GLM-5.2 in the wild: https://x.com/cline/status/2069171146994729078
Local 1-bit GLM: https://x.com/UnslothAI/status/2069418532375564484
Coinbase on AI spend: https://x.com/brian_armstrong
Coinbase gateway: https://x.com/markletree
Exa Connect: https://x.com/ExaAILabs/status/2069842203577651283
Mirendil $200M: https://x.com/a16z/status/2069869327411749012
npm account freeze: https://x.com/AikidoSecurity
Brain2Qwerty: https://x.com/AIatMeta/status/2071566924803395741
Google Workspace CLI: https://x.com/JPoehnelt

📚 MASTRA RESOURCES
Mastra: https://mastra.ai
Mastra on X: https://x.com/mastra_ai
Mastra Discord: https://mastra.ai/community/discord
Mastra GitHub: https://github.com/mastra-ai
Learn Mastra in the world's first MCP-Based Course: https://mastra.ai/course
Principles of Building AI Agents (Book): https://mastra.ai/books/principles-of-building-ai-agents
Patterns for Building AI Agents (New Book): https://mastra.ai/books/patterns-of-building-ai-agents

WHAT IS MASTRA?
Mastra is an open-source TypeScript framework designed for building and shipping AI-powered applications and agents with minimal friction. It supports the full lifecycle of agent development—from prototype to production. You can integrate it with frontend and backend stacks (e.g., React, Next.js, Node) or run agents as standalone services. If you're a JavaScript or TypeScript developer looking to build an agentic or AI-powered product without starting from first principles, Mastra provides the scaffolding, tools, and integrations to accelerate that process.

⏱️ CHAPTERS
00:00 Cold open: npm finally freezes accounts
00:29 Welcome
00:37 GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, Luna — and government-gated access
04:25 OpenAI's Jalapeño chip
05:34 Open models: Qwen AgentWorld, DeepSeek, Hermes MoA
07:11 AI SDK 7
07:43 Devin Fusion & the model-routing wave
10:26 Harness interop: OpenCode & LangChain
11:01 Tau harness
11:26 Claude Tag's viral moment & the Trojan horse
12:49 Open Tag
13:12 Voice agents land on Vercel
13:53 The infra bill: Coinbase on keeping AI spend flat
15:15 Exa Connect & a16z's $200M "seed"
16:32 npm freezes accounts
18:08 Meta's Brain2Qwerty: think-to-text
19:11 Google fired its viral CLI star
21:48 Fable returns
22:00 Outro