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Episodes
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80% of Voters Expect Massive AI Job Losses | David Shor
Blue Rose Research Head of Data Science David Shor breaks down polling on AI's populist moment, showing a massive public shift in AI existential risk and job…
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AI Will Build Most Frontend Code | Guillermo Rauch
Guillermo Rauch, CEO of Vercel, discusses the evolution of frontend development, AI-driven web architectures, deployment platforms, and the future of web…
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Why the Linear Sales Pipeline Is Dead | Nicolas Sharp
Attio CEO and Co-Founder Nicolas Sharp breaks down their newly announced hybrid architecture for AI-native CRMs. He explains how replacing linear sales…
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AI Agents Are Now Executing Phone Attacks | Kevin Tian
Doppel co-founder and CEO Kevin Tian discusses how AI agents are supercharging social engineering attacks via multi-channel phone and video deepfakes. He…
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How AI Personal Agents Will Manage Stablecoin Wallets | Dan Romero
Tempo CBO Dan Romero discusses the launch of Zones, bringing privacy and regulatory compliance to enterprise stablecoin payments. Featuring payroll giant Deel…
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Robinhood Is Putting Hedge Fund Data in Retail Apps | Abhishek Fatehpuria
Robinhood VP of Product Abhishek Fatehpuria breaks down the launch of native AI agents and external MCP integration within Robinhood. He explains how separate…
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Why DC Views Superintelligence as a National Security Threat
Sam Hammond, Director of AI Policy at the Foundation for American Innovation, discusses Washington's shift toward treating AI as a national security issue…
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Why Chatbots Are the Wrong Interface for Work | Arnab Bose
Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose details the company's new agentic work management platform, showcasing how AI teammates with shared context and memory…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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)…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…