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Claude Uses Your Computer, Openai Buys Python Tools & The Cursor/Kimi Plot Twist (This Week In AI)
Shane and Abhi kick off with a viral quote: if your $500K engineer isn't burning $250K in tokens, something is wrong.
OpenAI is acquiring Astral — the team behind uv and Ruff — joining the Codex team. OpenAI bets on Python; Anthropic bet on TypeScript with Bun. Then Cursor drama: someone found Composer 2 is powered by Kimi K2.5, Kimi confirmed it, and raised another $1B at an $18B valuation — three rounds in 90 days.
Anthropic shipped Claude Code Channels (Telegram/Discord control), Cowork Dispatch (persistent agent, message from phone), and a deep dive on how they use Skills. Matt Pocock found quality drops past 100K on the 1M context window. And 52 million views on enabling Claude to use your computer — Mac only.
Stripe launched MPP for agent-to-agent payments. Better Auth launched the Agent Auth Protocol. Cloudflare shipped Dynamic Workers for AI-generated code in isolates. LangChain open-sourced Deep Agents, Composio shipped 30-parallel-agent orchestration, OpenCode lost its Claude Max plugin after Anthropic sent lawyers, and Netlify and Google Stitch entered vibe coding and design.
EsoLang-Bench: LLMs score 85–95% on standard benchmarks but collapse to 0–11% on esoteric languages — memorization, not reasoning. Quick hits: GPT-5.4 mini/nano, Minimax M2.7, Morph FlashCompact, AI CMO, Letta pivots to coding agents, GLM-OCR, LiteLLM supply chain attack.
AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific.
📚 READ MORE
$500K engineers: https://x.com/sundeep/status/2034829022082080846
OpenAI acquires Astral: https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/
Cursor Composer 2: https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2034668943676244133
Composer 2 is Kimi K2.5: https://x.com/fynnso/status/2034706304875602030
Kimi confirms: https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2035074972943831491
Kimi raises $1B: https://x.com/CodeByPoonam/status/2034940587942846665
Claude Code Channels: https://x.com/trq212/status/2034761016320696565
Cowork Dispatch: https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2034005731457044577
Anthropic Skills post: https://x.com/trq212/status/2033949937936085378
1M context quality: https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2034572011175907474
Claude computer use: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2034991044109184388
Stripe MPP: https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol
Agent Auth Protocol: https://github.com/better-auth/agent-auth-protocol
Cloudflare Dynamic Workers: https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2034510221044736342
LangChain Deep Agents: https://x.com/hasantoxr/status/2033213054859792859
Composio Orchestrator: https://x.com/hasantoxr/status/2033999352008741376
OpenCode/Anthropic: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2034730036759339100
Netlify: https://x.com/Netlify/status/2034303709832773711
Google Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com
EsoLang-Bench: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09678
GPT-5.4 mini: https://x.com/openai/status/2033953592424731072
Morph FlashCompact: https://x.com/morphllm/status/2033968877345116200
📚 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.
00:00 — If your $500K engineer isn't burning $250K in tokens, something is wrong
01:36 — OpenAI acquires Astral
02:31 — Cursor's Composer 2 is secretly Kimi K2.5
05:35 — Kimi raises another $1B
05:57 — Anthropic ships
08:00 — Opus 4.6 1M context: quality drops noticeably past 100K tokens
08:46 — Claude can now use your computer (Mac only)
11:02 — Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol
12:28 — Better Auth launches the Agent Auth Protocol
13:12 — Cloudflare Dynamic Workers & the vibe coding platform wave
14:08 — LangChain Deep Agents, Composio's 30-agent orchestrator & cloud coding agents
17:00 — OpenCode removes the Claude Max plugin
19:26 — Google Stitch & Netlify's prompt-to-project
19:59 — LLMs aren't reasoning, they're memorizing
21:09 — Quick hits: GPT-5.4 mini, Minimax M2.7, Morph FlashCompact, AI CMO
23:55 — Letta goes all-in on coding agents, GLM-OCR
24:46 — LiteLLM supply chain attack
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By MastraShane and Abhi kick off with a viral quote: if your $500K engineer isn't burning $250K in tokens, something is wrong.
OpenAI is acquiring Astral — the team behind uv and Ruff — joining the Codex team. OpenAI bets on Python; Anthropic bet on TypeScript with Bun. Then Cursor drama: someone found Composer 2 is powered by Kimi K2.5, Kimi confirmed it, and raised another $1B at an $18B valuation — three rounds in 90 days.
Anthropic shipped Claude Code Channels (Telegram/Discord control), Cowork Dispatch (persistent agent, message from phone), and a deep dive on how they use Skills. Matt Pocock found quality drops past 100K on the 1M context window. And 52 million views on enabling Claude to use your computer — Mac only.
Stripe launched MPP for agent-to-agent payments. Better Auth launched the Agent Auth Protocol. Cloudflare shipped Dynamic Workers for AI-generated code in isolates. LangChain open-sourced Deep Agents, Composio shipped 30-parallel-agent orchestration, OpenCode lost its Claude Max plugin after Anthropic sent lawyers, and Netlify and Google Stitch entered vibe coding and design.
EsoLang-Bench: LLMs score 85–95% on standard benchmarks but collapse to 0–11% on esoteric languages — memorization, not reasoning. Quick hits: GPT-5.4 mini/nano, Minimax M2.7, Morph FlashCompact, AI CMO, Letta pivots to coding agents, GLM-OCR, LiteLLM supply chain attack.
AI Agents Hour is a weekly livestream by Mastra CPO Shane Thomas and CTO Abhi Aiyer. Mondays 12PM Pacific.
📚 READ MORE
$500K engineers: https://x.com/sundeep/status/2034829022082080846
OpenAI acquires Astral: https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/
Cursor Composer 2: https://x.com/cursor_ai/status/2034668943676244133
Composer 2 is Kimi K2.5: https://x.com/fynnso/status/2034706304875602030
Kimi confirms: https://x.com/kimi_moonshot/status/2035074972943831491
Kimi raises $1B: https://x.com/CodeByPoonam/status/2034940587942846665
Claude Code Channels: https://x.com/trq212/status/2034761016320696565
Cowork Dispatch: https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2034005731457044577
Anthropic Skills post: https://x.com/trq212/status/2033949937936085378
1M context quality: https://x.com/mattpocockuk/status/2034572011175907474
Claude computer use: https://x.com/claudeai/status/2034991044109184388
Stripe MPP: https://stripe.com/blog/machine-payments-protocol
Agent Auth Protocol: https://github.com/better-auth/agent-auth-protocol
Cloudflare Dynamic Workers: https://x.com/CloudflareDev/status/2034510221044736342
LangChain Deep Agents: https://x.com/hasantoxr/status/2033213054859792859
Composio Orchestrator: https://x.com/hasantoxr/status/2033999352008741376
OpenCode/Anthropic: https://x.com/thdxr/status/2034730036759339100
Netlify: https://x.com/Netlify/status/2034303709832773711
Google Stitch: https://stitch.withgoogle.com
EsoLang-Bench: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.09678
GPT-5.4 mini: https://x.com/openai/status/2033953592424731072
Morph FlashCompact: https://x.com/morphllm/status/2033968877345116200
📚 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.
00:00 — If your $500K engineer isn't burning $250K in tokens, something is wrong
01:36 — OpenAI acquires Astral
02:31 — Cursor's Composer 2 is secretly Kimi K2.5
05:35 — Kimi raises another $1B
05:57 — Anthropic ships
08:00 — Opus 4.6 1M context: quality drops noticeably past 100K tokens
08:46 — Claude can now use your computer (Mac only)
11:02 — Stripe's Machine Payments Protocol
12:28 — Better Auth launches the Agent Auth Protocol
13:12 — Cloudflare Dynamic Workers & the vibe coding platform wave
14:08 — LangChain Deep Agents, Composio's 30-agent orchestrator & cloud coding agents
17:00 — OpenCode removes the Claude Max plugin
19:26 — Google Stitch & Netlify's prompt-to-project
19:59 — LLMs aren't reasoning, they're memorizing
21:09 — Quick hits: GPT-5.4 mini, Minimax M2.7, Morph FlashCompact, AI CMO
23:55 — Letta goes all-in on coding agents, GLM-OCR
24:46 — LiteLLM supply chain attack