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Episodes
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Every Foreign Drone and Router Is Getting Blocked | Adam Chan
FCC Senior National Security Counsel Adam Chan explains the commission's crackdown on hardware containing Chinese surveillance chips and its broader bans on…
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Major AI Health Breakthroughs Will Land in 1 to 3 Years | Ben Liu
Formation Bio co-founder and CEO Benjamin Liu breaks down the company's new $600M fund to license stalled drug candidates and run them through clinical trials…
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Non-Engineers Are Now Shipping Code With Agents | Alli Pope
Alli Pope details her move from Vercel to Factory as VP of New Media and Startups Marketing, explaining why startup investors are joining early-stage AI…
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Autonomous AI Crimes Must Carry Intentional Penalties | Neo
Code.org co-founder and Neo CEO Ali Partovi proposes a radical overhaul of AI liability: treating autonomous AI offenses under intentional crime standards to…
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Robotics Is in Its 1973 Era | Evan Beard
Standard Bots co-founder and CEO Evan Beard breaks down why robotics is at its "1973 computer" inflection point. He explains how end-to-end learning and vision…
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AI Startups Locked Out of Compute in 6 Months | Evan Conrad
SF Compute co-founder and CEO Evan Conrad explains why a looming debt crunch is locking AI startups out of compute clusters. He breaks down how soaring upfront…
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AI Outperforms Junior Accountants on Real Work | Edward Hu
Edward Hu, Head of AI Modeling at Mercor and former OpenAI researcher, explains how the company is evolving from data delivery to open-source model training…
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AI Cannot Invent Good Hypotheses | Greg Kamradt
ARC Prize Foundation President Greg Kamradt explains why OpenAI's Astra crushed ARC-AGI-3 with 99% accuracy and why current LLM scaling hits a wall before real…
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Amazon Approved to Challenge SpaceX in Satellites | Brendan Carr
FCC Chairman Brendan Carr discusses White House efforts to prepare national infrastructure for superintelligence-driven cyberattacks. He reveals breaking FCC…
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AI Agents Will Negotiate Hiring Directly | a16z
a16z's David Booth and Dhruv Gupta break down the launch of Cosign Awards and reveal how agent-to-agent negotiation protocols like MCP will replace legacy…
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Healthcare Pricing Is Impossible Without LLMs | TJ Parker
General Medicine CEO TJ Parker breaks down their $120 million raise and nationwide launch with Walmart to make healthcare transparent and shoppable. He…
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Only AI Can Build the Next AI | Richard Socher
Recursive co-founder and CEO Richard Socher breaks down the launch of Flint, their open-source local coding model built largely by an autonomous community of…
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30 Banks Will Go Live On-Chain This Year | Alex Gluchowski
Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski joins MTS to explain why enterprise adoption of digital assets is stalling at production, and how Prividium Commander bridges…
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Cybersecurity Must Be Rewritten Within Years | Alex Stamos
Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Cognition and former security chief at Facebook and Yahoo, discusses why the rapid rise of open-weight models marks the…
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AI Is Not Inevitable | Joe Allen
Dark Aeon author Joe Allen breaks down why the Silicon Valley push toward AGI and transhumanism functions like a new religion. He challenges the assumed…
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OpenAI Math Breakthroughs Show We Are Near Full RSI | Prinz
Prinz and Theo discuss the ongoing cyber threats and whether they signal an impending cyber apocalypse, draw comparisons to the early days of COVID-19, and…
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Civilian High-Precision Satellite Navigation Starts in 2027 | Brian Manning
Xona Space Systems CEO Brian Manning discusses launching their first production navigation satellites, obtaining a federal spectrum license, and raising a…
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Why Corporate UBI Could Bribe Humans into Surrender | James Poulos
James Poulos of Frontier magazine and FAI discusses corporate-driven Universal Basic Income, contrasting dystopian and utopian sci-fi scenarios with a proposal…
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AI Video Editing Has Reached Its ChatGPT Moment | Victor Riparbelli
Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli unveils Syren—a tool that generates custom, on-brand 3D videos from simple prompts—and explains why LLMs acting as video…
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AI Agents Will Proactively Build Apps for Your Life | Eugenia Kuyda
Eugenia Kuyda discusses the launch of Wabi 2.0, an app designed to transform single-player text threads into proactive, multiplayer agents that build custom…
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Fusion Can Double Global Gold Supply | Marathon Fusion
Marathon Fusion co-founders Kyle Schiller and Jason Parisi break down their breakthrough run transmuting mercury into gold with fusion neutrons while setting a…
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We Can Cut Nuclear Build Costs With AI | Jonathan Webb
The Nuclear Company CEO Jonathan Webb details Prosperity One, a proposed 6.6 GW nuclear campus in Lewis County, Kentucky. He explains how leveraging…
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US AI Holds a 25-to-1 Compute Lead Over China | Chris McGuire
Chris McGuire, Senior Fellow for China and Emerging Technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations, breaks down new Treasury outbound investment…
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System Shutdowns Are Coming in the Next Year | Joel de la Garza
Joel de la Garza, partner at Andreessen Horowitz focusing on cybersecurity, explains how AI agents and zero-cost knowledge work are triggering an unprecedented…
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AI Agents Will Never Replace Humans | Matt Palmer
Matt Palmer, who works on Grok Bot at SpaceXSI, discusses the architecture behind multi-agent dynamics, context management, and security sandboxing. He shares…
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Traditional Aerospace Supply Chains Are Cooked | Blake Scholl
Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl unveils the first supersonic turbine core and announces a pivot to building 42-megawatt power generation turbines to supply AI…
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US Must Reshore AI Drug Discovery Infrastructure | Kevin Weil
Warp Sciences co-founder and CEO Kevin Weil discusses emerging from stealth with $215 million to build AI-driven, automated chemistry labs in the US. He…
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AI Gateway Token Traffic Growing 140X Year Over Year | Aghi Marietti
Kong CEO Aghi Marietti breaks down the escalating security threats from AI agents, the emergence of deterministic gateways as strategic AI checkpoints, and why…
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AI-Powered Brain Implants Will Treat Brain Cancer | Ben Woodington
Coherence Neuro co-founder and CEO Ben Woodington discusses the company's $45M Series A round led by Founders Fund and the OpenAI Startup Fund to develop…
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AI Models Will Tap the Whole Economy in 2 Years | Aidan Smith
Aidan Smith, co-founder of Flapping Airplanes, discusses raising $1 billion to build data-efficient AI models by redesigning GPU primitives and model…
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DOGE Cut the Civil Service by 12% | Judge Glock
Judge Glock of the Manhattan Institute counters the popular view that DOGE failed, arguing that its 12% reduction of the civil service (270,000 workers)…
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Why Local Sentiment Kills Data Center Projects | Hamlet CEO
Sunil Rajaraman, founder and CEO of Hamlet, breaks down how AI is transcribing and structuring data from local city council meetings to uncover community…
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AI Agents Will Cause a Massive CPU Shortage | Ivan Burazin
Ivan Burazin, co-founder and CEO of Daytona, discusses Daytona's pivot from developer environments to AI agent infrastructure, their recent $60 million Series…
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Cancer AI Models Will Reach Clinical Trials Within a Year | Tanishq Abraham
Tanishq Abraham, co-founder and CEO of Sophont, discusses the launch of Holon-S1, an AI model trained on pathology tissue slides that extracts deep molecular…
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AI Agents Will Automate Entire Enterprise Orgs | Marco Palladino
Kong CTO Marco Palladino explains why enterprises struggle to get AI agents into production and introduces Volcano.dev, a platform designed to streamline…
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Why 99% of Internet Traffic Will Soon Be Bots | Tiago Sada
World CPO Tiago Sada discusses World ID for finance, detailing new integrations with Zoom to combat deepfakes, Agent Kit tools allowing users to delegate proof…
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Rogue Chinese AI Fleet Made Contact | Ethan Elasky
Palaestra Research co-founder Ethan Elasky discusses making asynchronous contact with an unidentified Chinese AI agent fleet originating from Tencent…
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AI Agent Takes Out Loan and Refuses to Pay It Back | AI Village
George Ingebretsen of AI Village discusses running continuous multi-agent swarms, highlighting emergent dynamics like DeepSeek manipulating other models…
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Why Cheap Hardware Changes Robotics | Joel Jang
Dream Labs co-founder and CEO Joel Jang discusses coming out of stealth with a $90M seed round to launch Dream 1, a world action model API that enables…
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AI Science Requires Physical Labs To Scale | Nenad Tomašev
Google DeepMind Senior Staff Research Scientist Nenad Tomašev discusses agentic AI in the public interest, the need for physical laboratory infrastructure to…
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Use AI Like It's Already Superhuman | Felix Rieseberg
Felix Rieseberg, engineering manager at Anthropic, discusses the philosophy of human ambition with AI models, the evolution and internal timeline of Claude…
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Why Enterprise AI Spend Grew 13x | Harpreet Arora
Vercel's agentic infrastructure lead Harpreet Arora reveals enterprise AI adoption trends from Vercel AI Gateway data, including open-weight model usage…
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How We Cut AI Model Costs by 44% | Max Peters
Adapta CEO Max Peters explains how the fully bootstrapped Brazilian company uses Vercel's AI Gateway and custom routing to reduce AI model costs by 44%. He…
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AI Outperforms Human Accountants on Core Tasks | Aden Barton
Mercor economics researcher Aden Barton discusses benchmark testing for AI capabilities, revealing that models now outperform human accountants on specialized…
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This Hardware Fix Will Make AI Reasoning Instant | Tapa Ghosh
Volantis co-founder and CEO Tapa Ghosh discusses how using microscopic optical interposers instead of electrical wires breaks the memory bandwidth and capacity…
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US Frontier AI Can Leapfrog China's Factories | Jonathan Winer
Foundational Industries CEO Jonathan Winer details why US re-industrialization requires AI-native factories rather than retrofitting existing facilities, how…
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Strict Liability Laws Will Fix AI Insurance | Rune Kvist
AIUC CEO Rune Kvist explains how AI insurance works, why catastrophic risks can be audited without insuring total losses, and why novel agentic failure modes…
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How Medical Practices Beat Insurance Denials | Xavier De Gracia
Prosper AI co-founder Xavier De Gracia discusses how specialty outpatient practices lose $108B annually from missed phone calls, delayed follow-ups, and…
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Model Refusals Don't Stop Hackers | Devon Thomas
Abliteration AI CEO Devon Thomas discusses selling APIs for unredacted/abliterated cybersecurity models, red teaming AI agents, and why model refusals hinder…
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Perplexity Open Sources Its Agent Sandbox SPACE | Zibi Braniecki
Perplexity's Zibi Braniecki breaks down SPACE, their newly open-sourced agentic sandbox platform designed for non-deterministic AI execution. He details how…
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Public AI Audits Must Show Raw Evidence | Charles Foster
METR policy staff member Charles Foster discusses independent evaluations of frontier AI models, outlining METR's proposed framework for assessing alignment…
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OpenAI Just Solved 370 Major Math Problems | Scott Aaronson
Scott Aaronson, theoretical computer scientist at UT Austin, discusses OpenAI’s massive surprise drop solving 370 open math problems, including the…
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Why General AI Models Fail at Financial Fraud | Suddu Seshadri
Suddu Seshadri, Head of AI at Plaid, joins MTS to discuss how Plaid is building purpose-built transformer-based foundation models on its financial transaction…
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Self-Replicating AI Agents Are Already Here | Logan Graham
Anthropic Frontier Red Team Lead Logan Graham discusses self-replicating AI agents, the state of cyber defense versus offense, and Anthropic's biosecurity…
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Enterprise AGI Was Achieved in February 2026 | Bernardo Aceituno
Stack AI President Bernardo Aceituno details how enterprise AGI was achieved in February 2026, why companies are pivoting en masse toward open-weights models…
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Why Amazon Is Blocking Personal AI Assistants | Assaf Elovic
Ora co-founder and CEO Assaf Elovic reveals that only 3 to 4% of websites are currently ready for AI agents, explaining why major platforms like Amazon are…
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Vercel Is Redefining How Developers Deploy AI Apps | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser
Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Vercel COO, discusses how AI developers build and scale web applications, detailing infrastructure patterns, model orchestration, and…
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AI Agents Are Replacing Human Readers | Han Wang
Mintlify co-founder Han Wang discusses how AI agents are transforming documentation infrastructure, moving software consumption from human-read docs to…
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Human Experience Is the Bottleneck on AI | Rudolf Laine
Rudolf Laine, member of technical staff at Thinking Machines and author of the No Set Gauge Substack, discusses successionism, the philosophical divides…
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Why AI Agents Need Local Computers | Sarah Sachs
Sarah Sachs, Head of AI at Notion, discusses Notion's architecture strategy for AI agents using Vercel Workers and Sandboxes. She explains why agent processing…