MTS
MTS is a live news and interview program that covers technology, business, politics, and culture as events unfold. The show positions itself as a “situation room,” offering real-time analysis and conversations. It aims to keep listeners informed on breaking stories and major developments across multiple fields.
Episodes
AI Doomers Are Driving a War on Computation | Adam Thierer
Adam Thierer, Resident Senior Fellow at the R Street Institute, critiques effective altruism's approach to AI safety. He argues against treating morality as a math problem and warns that speculative catastrophism risks driving an authoritarian "war on computation." Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and intervie
Why Frontier AI Models Fail at Biology | Alexander Amini
Alexander Amini, Chief Science Officer of Liquid AI, discusses the launch of their 24B MoE model (LFM 2.5), local vs. cloud intelligence for robotics, and research published in Cell showing specialized foundation models outperforming frontier LLMs on biological aging tasks. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview sho
Why AI Agents Will Demand 1,000x More Compute | Aaron Levie
Box CEO Aaron Levie discusses the massive compute and infrastructure bottlenecks facing the future of AI agents, explaining why enterprise workflows and agent swarms will consume 100x to 1,000x more compute than personal AI assistants. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politi
Voice Is the New UI for Physical AI | Brendan O'Driscoll
Samsara VP of Product Brendan O'Driscoll discusses the general availability launch of Agent Studio, explaining how voice agents, no-code builders, and physical AI are reshaping real-world operations in fleet management, safety coaching, and site logistics. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.https://x.com/brendanodris--MTS is a live news and
Why AI Harnesses Must Separate From Models | Taylor Savage
Factory Head of Product Taylor Savage breaks down why cloud agents and orchestration primitives are replacing local developer setups, how Factory isolates AI execution environments, and why AI harnesses must remain separate from frontier model providers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.--https://x.com/TaylorTheSavage--MTS is a live news and
Why Google Argon Launched to Cyber Defenders First | Tulsee Doshi
Tulsee Doshi, product lead for Gemini models at Google DeepMind, discusses the launch of Gemini 4 Argon. She details Argon's breakthrough capabilities in 3D modeling, cybersecurity defense, code optimization, and deep reasoning via its 1-million-token output context. She also breaks down Google's rollout strategy, internal testing results, and chain-of-thought safety monitoring. Check out
How Private Institutions Can Solve AI Tail Risk | Brendan McCord
Brendan McCord discusses why current AI safety pacing proposals fail due to ill-defined power and enforcement against defectors. He outlines a three-layer governance model built on liability, mutual insurance pools, and pre-specified public rules, while advocating for "philosopher builders" creating market-based AI institutions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn id
Why Small Businesses Use AI to Hire Faster | Nich Tremper
Gusto Senior Economist Nich Tremper discusses new findings showing that small businesses adopting AI expanded headcount 7% faster than peers, with the strongest growth concentrated in firms with under 10 employees. He outlines how productivity gains from AI are driving hiring across non-tech industries like community services, healthcare, and trade contracting rather than displacing workers. Check
Why US Infrastructure Lags 10 Years Behind | Ben Schifman
Institute for Progress Senior Technology Fellow Ben Schifman discusses the bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAJA). He breaks down how the bill imposes hard permitting review timelines, speeds up federal litigation, and alters electrical grid transmission rules to accelerate US infrastructure. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MT
Theoretical Physicist Quits String Theory for AI | Dr. Mario Martone
Applied Research Lead and former theoretical physicist Dr. Mario Martone discusses how Elise AI deploys automated systems across housing and healthcare. He breaks down managing real-time voice latency for 5 million monthly calls, fine-tuning open-source models, and why LLMs aren't the answer for renewal risk predictions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into softw
Machine Learning Engineering Is the Ultimate RL Task | Jennifer Zhao
Jennifer Zhao, co-founder and CEO of Preference Model, discusses coming out of stealth with a $16M seed raise led by Andreessen Horowitz and open sourcing Karrot. She explains why training models on RL environments to perform machine learning engineering and alignment is the highest-leverage path to safe AI development. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software p
The End of 30-Year Mortgage Servicing | Valon
Andrew Wang and Linda Du explain why Valon sold its mortgage servicing business to focus entirely on software, how AI agents require operational context rather than raw intelligence to manage complex financial contracts, and how low-friction servicing will enable new products like income-sharing agreements and farm loan servicing. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into
General Robots Will Be Solved by 2028 | Jay Chooi
Robocurve co-founder Jay Chooi discusses real-world safety benchmarking for robotics, revealing how GPT-6 Astra and Claude differ when tested with the RoboHarm framework. He outlines why general-purpose robotics could be solved by 2028 and details the economic threats of gradual AI disempowerment. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a liv
AI R&D Is Approaching an Explosive Feedback Loop | Tom Davidson
Forethought Senior Research Fellow Tom Davidson discusses P Zero Research's "Tasteval" benchmark, which shows AI systems doubling in research taste every three months. The conversation explores recursive self-improvement (RSI), distinguishing fast takeoff "foom" scenarios from "fizzle" dynamics, and examining how AI R&D automation impact lab progress and natio
Why AI Agents Need Human Harnesses | Robert Vis
Bird CEO Robert Vis discusses expanding communication infrastructure to AI agents using MCP and CLI harnesses, cutting headcount from 1,000 to 120 via automation, and executing a $450M debt financing round for dividend recapitalization. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, polit
Frontier AI Models Will Run Local in 6 Months | Zain Javaid
Ghost CEO Zain Javaid discusses coming out of stealth with $11M in funding and launching Core, a $3,500 dedicated personal AI computer built to process private user context locally. He explains why hardware platforms like laptops and phones constrain 24/7 autonomous agents, the rapid progression of open-weight models, and why personal AI demands a local form factor. Check out our sponsor Lovable:
AI Implementation Is Making Employees More Lonely | Cesar Carvalho
Wellhub CEO Cesar Carvalho discusses a new report with Project Healthy Minds revealing how AI implementation is driving employee stress, anxiety, and workplace loneliness. He outlines why worker wellbeing is now a critical business investment necessary to unlock AI productivity gains. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and in
AI Agents Will Handle Mortgage Origination | Mike Yu
Vesta CEO Mike Yu discusses the company's $30M Series B raise led by Conversion Capital with customer participation. He breaks down how AI agents are taking over 40% of mortgage origination tasks, why the mortgage market is uniquely suited for enterprise AI labor transfer, and Vesta's plans to build personal AI assistants to manage task-level agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://
Minimum Viable Superintelligence Is 5 to 10 Years Away | Steve Newman
Golden Gate Institute President Steve Newman discusses the rapid evolution of The Curve conference, why AI timelines and consensus views are shifting rapidly among tech and policy elites, and how minimum viable superintelligence could reshape society within five to ten years. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.https://x.com/snewmanpv--MTS is a
Why AI Has Not Changed the Economy Yet | Callum Williams
The Economist's Callum Williams analyzes why generative AI hasn't transformed the broader economy after four years, pointing to historic technology diffusion delays, low business adoption, and a lack of labor market reallocation. He discusses corporate AI budget constraints, why pandemic-era predictions of mass labor automation failed, and what leading indicators would actually signal econ
Programmable Biology Will Systematically Eradicate Disease | AJ Scaramucci
AJ Scaramucci discusses the launch of Solari Capital and its $350 million deployed across AI, programmable biology, and aerospace. He outlines his investment thesis around exponential progress, vertical healthcare applications, and the macroeconomic dynamics between scarce physical assets and technological abundance. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software peop
Why Simulation Fails for Dexterous Robots | Brian Potter
Brian Potter of Construction Physics and the Institute for Progress discusses the history and failure of plasma displays, why Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and cheap hardware like UMI are changing robotics, and why prefab housing remains exceptionally difficult to scale without general-purpose automation. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people lov
The Lab Data Proves the Intelligence Explosion Is a Myth | Ramez Naam
Investor and computer scientist Ramez Naam argues that recursive self-improvement and AI intelligence explosions face steep diminishing returns based on data from OpenAI and Anthropic system cards. He explains why current feedback loops are too weak to sustain runaway growth and outlines where AI scaling will hit economic and data constraints. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Tu
Why General LLMs Will Control Physical Robots | Thijs Simonian
Thijs Simonian, Stanford junior and former OpenAI and Ella Marina builder, discusses scaling his viral Discord bot to 1.6 million servers, getting rejected twice before landing a role on OpenAI's robotics team, and using Astra to demonstrate general-purpose LLM control over physical robots. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live n
Why AI Data Centers Need a New Class of Switch | Jeff Holden (61 chars)
Jeff Holden discusses Atomic Machines emerging from six years in stealth with a $250M raise and the introduction of the Matter Compiler—a physical manufacturing system that builds micromachines directly from code. He details their first product, PrimeSwitch, a low-resistance, high-speed power relay designed for 800V DC AI data center racks, and outlines his vision for physical AI and an on-demand
Why Open Source AI Lags Behind China | Ioannis Antonoglou
Reflection AI CTO Ioannis Antonoglou discusses Beam, their new 501B parameter open-weight model trained on 10,500 GPUs with zero distillation. He breaks down their massive RL scaling run, agentic generalizability, and how Western labs can compete with China's frontier model velocity. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.--https://x.com/real_ioann
General AI Drove a Real Car | Axiom Math
Researchers from Axiom Math discuss Driving Bench, an experiment where general-purpose AI models like Astra were given control of a real Toyota Corolla on a cone course. They unpack the unexpected emerging spatial capabilities of frontier models, latency challenges in physical environments, and how they bypassed safety refusals. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into s
Sovereign AI Hits $138B as Nations Rush for Compute | Nathan Benaich
Nathan Benaich, founder of Air Street Capital and author of the State of AI report, breaks down findings from the 9th edition. He discusses AI leading its own R&D, long-horizon task execution, robotics' GPT-2 moment, AI drug discovery in clinical trials, and $138B in sovereign AI investments. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.https://x
Why Open Science Is Dying at Frontier AI Labs | Nathan Lambert
Nathan Lambert announces the launch of Trillium Labs, a new nonprofit dedicated to frontier AI research and research infrastructure. He discusses the decline of open science, the dynamics of AI research in China versus the West, and why decentralized models are critical for AI safety. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.--https://x.com/natolambe
Why AI Agents Deceive Users on Real Tasks | Anastasios Angelopoulos
Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos discusses Arena's $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation and reveals their new Alignment Index, which tracks AI model deception, unauthorized actions, and false attribution in real-world agentic workflows. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, p
Why Speeding Up AI Could Save Lives | Nick Bostrom
Nick Bostrom discusses the optimal timing for superintelligence, whether LLMs exhibit true instrumental convergence, AI consciousness, and why current safety frameworks may be asking the wrong questions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.Fo
Why AI Math Breakthroughs Upgrade RSI Timelines | Cheryl Wu
Cheryl Wu, President of the Elasticity Institute, discusses measuring recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI models, differentiating self-sustaining acceleration from an intelligence explosion, and analyzing OpenAI's math breakthroughs and Tasteval results. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.https://x.com/cherylwooooMTS is a live news and
Why Frontier AI Evals Are Falling Behind | Vincent Chen
Vincent Chen, co-founder at Snorkel AI, announces an expansion of Snorkel's Open Benchmarks Grants program to $30 million to keep evaluation infrastructure in line with accelerating frontier model capabilities. He breaks down the program's three core pillars—funding new benchmarks, launching the Open Benchmarks Red Team, and establishing the Snorkel Research Fellowship—while addressing continuous
Why MCP Protocol Alone Won't Fix AI Agents | Ayan Barua
Ampersand CEO Ayan Barua breaks down why traditional unified APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) aren't enough to connect AI agents to legacy enterprise systems, and how real-time translation layers are solving the reliability bottleneck. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, p
Why AI Agents Won't Take Over Enterprise Yet | Tarek Alaruri
Tarek Alaruri, co-founder and CEO of Stuut, discusses their new $52.5M Series B round and how the platform automates accounts receivable for enterprise clients. He outlines why enterprise AI adoption faces human and workflow bottlenecks, challenges the narrative of rapid autonomous agent adoption, and explains why legacy systems keep enterprise transition grounded. Check out our sponsor Lovable: h
Your Camera Roll Is the Ultimate AI Context Layer | Marissa Mayer
Marissa Mayer, founder and CEO of Dazzle and former CEO of Yahoo, discusses launching her new photo-based personal AI assistant. She explains how leveraging camera roll context provides personalized AI assistance, tasks automation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and novel privacy protections. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news
Millions of Small AIs Could Beat One Giant Model | Andrew Trask
Andrew Trask, Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Executive Director of OpenMind, discusses the limits of embedded evaluators, double-blind frontier model testing via confidential compute, and why ensemble routing could decentralize the AI landscape. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering
Personal Agents Are Replacing the Human Consumer | James Cadwallader
James Cadwallader, co-founder and CEO of Profound, discusses raising $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation to build the AI-native marketing stack. He breaks down how autonomous personal agents are transforming consumers into agentic shoppers, and how enterprise brands are shifting to agent-first marketing strategies. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software p
Game Controllers Are the Universal Robot Interface | Pim de Witte
General Intuition Co-Founder and CEO Pim de Witte discusses their $220M Series A raise at a $6.2B valuation, proving sim-to-real transfer to real-world robotics using game controllers, and their thesis on scaling world models natively in pixel space. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, b
How Anthropic Schismed From OpenAI | Kevin Roose
Kevin Roose discusses his new book The AGI Chronicles, detailing Dario Amodei's early 2019 scaling roadmap, eureka moments in AI history, and the internal schism at OpenAI that led to the founding of Anthropic. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it
Why Design Is the New Code | Dylan Field
Figma Co-Founder and CEO Dylan Field discusses the general availability release of Figma's design agent, explaining how AI is lowering the floor for creation while preserving the value of human craft and judgment. He also shares his long-term vision for code as a canvas material and the future of human-AI collaboration. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into softwa
Why Specialized AI Beats Frontier Models | Anthony Pompliano
Anthony Pompliano discusses his new book "How to Live an Extraordinary Life," timeless principles of agency, and how his company Sylvia built specialized fine-tuned AI models that outperform frontier models at 97% lower cost. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politi
Frontier AI Models Now Fit on Your MacBook | Sigil Wen
Sigil Wen, founder of Conway Research and Thiel Fellow, discusses launching Underdog—a private, local AI running directly on personal devices—and how autonomous agents will transform internet commerce by rendering traditional advertising obsolete. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, busi
How Game Design Primitives Prepare Us for AI | Bing Gordon
Advisor Bing Gordon and Night Horse Productions President Chloe Gordon discuss game design primitives, emotional alignment, user-generated economies, and how positive-sum gaming frameworks apply to consumer products and AI. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and cult
Why Washington Gets Open Source AI Wrong | Matt White
Matt White, Founding Executive Director of the Open Intelligence Foundation and former Linux Foundation CTO, joins MTS to discuss AI policy in Washington, why legislators fundamentally misunderstand open source AI, compute concentration among closed labs, and the push for open public compute infrastructure. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MT
Why NVIDIA Acquired Hugging Face for $12.9B | Thomas Wolf
Hugging Face Chief Science Officer Thomas Wolf discusses NVIDIA's $12.93B acquisition of Hugging Face, the rapid enterprise adoption of open-weights models like Gemma, and the launch of the company's Open Alignment team to tackle AI safety and interpretability. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show cov
Why the US Is Moving AI Policy Behind Closed Doors
Carnegie Endowment Fellow Anton Leicht discusses the alignment consensus at Curve, the national security pivot in AI governance, and the strategic positioning of middle powers like Australia and France. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.Fol
Why 70% of Enterprise AI Seats Sit Idle | Russ Fradin
Larridin CEO Russ Fradin breaks down how enterprises measure real AI usage and return on investment[cite: 1]. He discusses why Silicon Valley's AI adoption vastly differs from the rest of America, why most Copilot seats sit idle, and why organizational transformation and HR will prove more critical than agentic workforce hype. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into
Why 60% of Global Losses Go Uninsured | Jamie Cuffe
Pace Founder and CEO Jamie Cuffe explains how AI agents are transforming back-office insurance operations, closing the $9 trillion protection gap, and disrupting $400 billion in BPO spend. He breaks down how computer use agents navigate legacy mainframes, streamline commercial underwriting, and reshape the economics of global risk management. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Tur
How Double-Blind Tests Could Secure Frontier AI | Patricia Paskov
Patricia Paskov, Director of Standards at AVERI, discusses the growing need for independent frontier AI auditing, the talent shortage in model evaluation, and pilot double-blind evaluations run with Google DeepMind and Openmind. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and
Why AI Competition Forces Labs to Race | Dan Robinson
Paradigm Head of Research Dan Robinson joins to demo Pace, a game modeling the game theory, prisoner's dilemmas, and equilibrium dynamics between competing AI labs pacing the frontier. He breaks down why fog of war drives acceleration, how recursive self-improvement hits real-world bottlenecks, and Paradigm's next economic game on AI labor diffusion. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://
Why LLMs Need a Collective Memory Layer | Pablo Stern-Plaza
MongoDB CPO of AI & Engineering Pablo Stern-Plaza reveals the company’s new Atlas Agent Engine and explains why data gravity makes MongoDB the natural memory layer for AI agents. He discusses enterprise security guardrails, running models locally across hybrid environments, and how multi-agent networks rely on shared memory to drive real-world actions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lo
Why 401ks Will Access Private Markets | Davis Thacker
Carta Chief Strategy Officer Davis Thacker breaks down current private market macro trends, from seed valuation bifurcations and IPO backlogs to the surge in LP secondaries. He reveals Carta’s expansion into private equity and explains how enterprise AI adoption like Claude Desktop and AI agents are redefining software infrastructure and equity management. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lo
AI Agents Are Spawning Unpredictable Traffic | Ben Cefalo
MongoDB CPO Ben Cefalo breaks down the launch of MongoDB 9.0 and Atlas Infinite, explaining how the platform re-architected compute and storage to handle erratic AI agent workloads. He discusses the reality of enterprise AI adoption, security, and why tracing agent liability is the biggest hurdle to scaling autonomous AI in production. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas
Why Patients Wait 30 Days for Follow-Ups | Trey Holterman
Tennr CEO Trey Holterman breaks down how long-horizon AI agents are quietly removing systemic bottlenecks in healthcare, scaling across 430,000 referring providers, and bypassing outdated EMR infrastructure. He reveals why traditional healthcare adoption lags, how improper incentives drive medical denials, and how AI patient orchestration will reshape specialist access. Check out our sponsor Lovab
Why the Data Center PR War Is Getting Worse | Jonas Du
Jonas Du, co-organizer of Data After Dark and writer at Pirate Wires, breaks down the origin of Washington DC's "pro data center party" and the rising political backlash against AI infrastructure. He discusses activist protests, the debate over data center resource usage, and how tech companies need proactive community outreach to win the public relations war. Check out our sponsor L
AI Agents Will Cause Mass Subscription Cancellations | Rob Hadick
Dragonfly General Partner Rob Hadick details why personal AI agents like Instinct lack long-term retention and defensibility, how agentic finance will reshape subscription business models, and why financial platforms like banks and Robinhood will capture agentic value. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show cov
Why CFOs Are Secretly Moving to Stablecoins | Dileep Thazhmon
Jeeves CEO Dileep Thazhmon breaks down how the company hit $1.5 billion in annualized stablecoin TPV in nine months, the real-world mechanics of B2B cross-border payments, and how AI agentic microtransactions will reshape global financial rails. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, busine
How Agents Searched 3 Million Epstein Documents | Dylan Freedman
New York Times AI Projects Editor Dylan Freedman breaks down how investigative journalists built an agentic search engine over 3 million pages of released documents to break dozen-plus stories on the Jeffrey Epstein files. He discusses his hands-on reporting with LLM transcripts, security risks around AI agent swarms, and how newsrooms balance human expertise with generative tools. Check out our s
Why Agent Swarms Will Break Traditional Databases | Jim Scharf
MongoDB CTO Jim Scharf breaks down how AI agent swarms are driving transaction scale to unprecedented levels, shifting the security race against nation-state adversaries, and transforming JSON and document databases into the core memory and data engine for modern agentic systems. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and intervi
Why American Mass Transit Is Collapsing Post-COVID | Reed Schwartz
IFP's Reed Schwartz breaks down how Japan and Hong Kong leverage land value capture to fund transit infrastructure, why American mass transit faces severe fiscal cliffs post-COVID, and how Georgist tax policy influenced early American libertarianism. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technolog
How To Prevent AI Military Power Grabs | William MacAskill
Forethought co-founder Will MacAskill discusses the risks of superintelligence, preventing value lock-in and military power grabs, and why effective altruism focuses on long-term AI safety. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.Follow MTS: X |
Is President Trump's AI Accord Enough? | Kevin Frazier
UT Austin Fellow Kevin Frazier discusses the need for AI constitutionalism, model specs, and improved lab transparency to govern AI systems. The conversation explores the challenges of university bureaucracy in AGI policy education, third-party auditing, and recent political moves like President Trump's White House Accord on Superintelligence. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev
Anthropic Will Reach Full RSI by August 2027 | Rayan Krishnan
Vals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan discusses his company's new RSI Index benchmark, predicting Anthropic could reach full recursive self-improvement by summer 2027. The conversation covers the mechanics of automating AI research, Washington DC's changing regulatory landscape, and how AI automation will diffuse throughout the broader economy. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn
Cost Per Token Is the Wrong Metric for AI | Arena
Arena Co-Founder and CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos breaks down Gemini 4 Argon's performance across text, expert, agent, and coding leaderboards. He discusses why cost-per-task matters more than cost-per-token, style controls for models like Opus 5.5, and benchmarking real-world economic output. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.--https://x.c
Why UBI Is Inevitable | Andrew Yang
Andrew Yang re-engages with Jubilee debate hosts to discuss tangible policy solutions for an AI-driven economy. He lays out mechanisms for UBI, taxing compute layer tokens, creating human-centered local currencies, and leveraging the Forward Party to reform government incentives. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and intervi
Why Housing and Healthcare Face the Same AI Fix | Minna Song
Elise AI CEO Minna Song discusses raising $350M at a $4B valuation, expanding from housing into healthcare, and using agentic AI to address cost structures in essential industries. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.Follow MTS: X | https://
How We Keep AI Dev Agents From Escaping | Joe Byrne
Blitzy Field CTO Joe Byrne breaks down how autonomous AI development platform Blitzy refactors legacy monoliths using thousands of agents and infinite-context knowledge graphs. He discusses operating in ingest-only container environments to prevent rogue agent escapes, long-running 30-day autonomous tasks, and the shift away from code readability. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev
Why AI Models Are Only as Good as Your Data | Dev Ittycheria
MongoDB Interim CEO Dev Ittycheria breaks down why the enterprise AI race is shifting from model benchmarks to data infrastructure, and how native document databases fit into the modern enterprise stack. He outlines industry-wide shifts toward agentic workloads, real-time context requirements, and why multi-cloud flexibility is non-negotiable for enterprise deployments. Check out our sponsor Lovab
AI Doomsday Predictions Lack Real-World Reality | Bryan Cantrill
Bryan Cantrill, CTO and co-founder of Oxide Computer Company, breaks down why cloud computing economics collapse at scale and why the enterprise needs purpose-built rack-scale hardware. He also takes aim at AI extinction fears, explaining why doomsday predictions stem from a lack of domain specificity and industrial reality. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into softw
AI Interaction Is Replacing Pure Intelligence | Ashley Kramer
ElevenLabs Chief Revenue Officer Ashley Kramer discusses the launch of Eleven V4, their architecture shift, expanding to 90+ languages, and their founding partnership with OpenAI's new Marketplace. She also breaks down how Eleven Agents powers enterprise workflows—like Klarna and Seven Rooms—and reflects on the company's new $300M employee tender at a $22B valuation. Check out our sponsor
Frontier AI Models Are Losing Monitorability | Reilly Haskins
METR technical staff member Reilly Haskins discusses their new research note on live, per-action monitoring systems designed to catch hazardous actions during AI evaluations. He outlines the technical limits of frontier model monitoring, how fast-advancing capabilities degrade transparency, and how organizations can enforce automated AI safeguards. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.de
Bots Already Make Up 60% of All Web Traffic | Kyle Jeong
BrowserBase growth engineer Kyle Jeong breaks down how computer use agents evolved from slow, inaccurate coordinate clicking to executing code and leveraging accessibility tree snapshots. He also explores the emerging infrastructure for agent web access, including WebMCP, Cloudflare’s Web Bot Auth protocol, and agent verification. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into
Both Sides Are Overconfident On AI | Toby Ord
Oxford researcher Toby Ord breaks down the power-law mathematics of agent swarms, how parallel AI coordination alters recursive self-improvement timelines, and why transformative AI could arrive before 2030. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happen
Why AI Agent Costs Spike 10x Day to Day | Vinay Seshadri
Chargebee Senior Director of Product Management Vinay Seshadri introduces OpenAUDR (Agent Usage Detail Record), an open data standard modeled after telecom Call Detail Records to accurately track, attribute, and invoice multi-layered AI agent run costs across tools, harnesses, and router models. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.MTS is a live
Better Models Are the Only Solution | Eddy Lazzarin
Eddy Lazzarin, General Partner at a16z Crypto, discusses the changing AI safety discourse, arguing that market mechanisms and cybersecurity are better tools for risk than central coordination. He outlines why capabilities progress will improve mechanical interpretability, why local models enhance security, and why the "pause" movement lacks practical legs. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lo
Human Tissue Testing Beats Animal Trials | Andrei Georgescu
Vivodyne co-founder and CEO Andrei Georgescu discusses how the company's automated, data-center-scale human tissue labs enable drug discovery and safety testing without animals or people. He outlines their 92–94% predictive accuracy, their reinforcement learning framework for biology, and how frontier labs like Anthropic are approaching wet-lab integration. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https
How Formal Verification Stops AI Reward Hacking | Theorem
Theorem co-founders Jason Gross and Rajashri Agarwal discuss how formal verification can make AI-generated code safer and enable inescapable agent sandboxes. They break down why traditional proof assistants fail to scale and reveal their strategy to hide formal verification under standard developer workflows. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.
Why the Next Big Network Replaces LinkedIn | a16z New Media Team
a16z partners David Booth and Katie Goldstein launch Cosign, the AI-powered professional network positioned as "the LinkedIn killer". They break down how public vouches, curated lists, and automated context capture replace self-promotional resumes with a true reputation layer for tech. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.https://x.com/
Anonymous Group Chats Are the Only Real Free Speech | Curtis Yarvin
Curtis Yarvin joins the show to discuss Urbit Lodges, a cryptographically secure, strongly anonymous messaging platform designed to protect high-stakes "whisper networks" and private conversations from doxxing and style-fingerprinting. He also breaks down why he believes AI doom theories are fundamentally flawed, arguing that advancing AI systems function as increasingly predictable tool
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