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How AI Bio Weapons Shift the Power Balance | Hannu Rajaniemi
Hannu Rajaniemi joins MTS to discuss advancing biological defenses faster than threats, designing broadly neutralizing antibodies across viral families, and…
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Why Top AI Talent Is Shifting From Software to Heavy Industry | Talent Watch
This week's Talent Watch discusses ElevenLabs' CFO hire from Adyen, Matt Clifford stepping down from ARIA to focus on Anthropic, and OpenAI extending its…
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US-China AI Deals Face Low Expectations | Helen Toner
Helen Toner joins MTS to discuss US-China AI coordination prospects, the challenges of defining AGI in 2025, and China's regulatory approach to artificial…
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"DeFi Is Very Much Dead" | American Perpetuals Founder
Theo Gillibrand joins MTS to discuss bringing perpetual futures to US equity markets, navigating CFTC and SEC regulation, and the institutional opportunity for…
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OpenAI's Astra Model Is Less Monitorable | Thomas Larsen & Daniel Kokotajlo
Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen join MTS to discuss AI monitorability challenges, their AI 2040 Plan A framework for safe progress to superintelligence, and…
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Billionaire Tax Creates a $25 Billion Net Loss | Benjamin Robert Jaros
Benjamin Robert Jaros joins MTS to discuss California's proposed billionaire tax, revenue estimates versus income tax trade-offs, and why wealth taxes face…
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Superintelligence Will Out-Value Humans | Ginevra Lily Davis
Ginevra Lily Davis joins MTS to discuss her essay The Silicon Man, the philosophical foundations for superintelligence alignment, and building new institutions…
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World Models Will Eclipse LLMs | World Labs Co-Founder
Justin Johnson joins MTS to discuss Atlas, World Labs' multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control. Johnson…
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Anthropic IPO Will Be the Largest Liquidity Transfer Ever
Haseeb Qureshi joins MTS to discuss the Anthropic IPO's impact on crypto markets, the infrastructure enabling self-replicating AI, and how decentralized clouds…
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Why AI Cloud Deals Are Reaching $13 Billion | Sophia Dew
For today's industry news, MTS host Sophia Dew discuss major AI infrastructure funding trends, rapid valuation growth among hardware and security startups, and…
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Sparse Analog AI Chips Cut Data Center Energy 100x | Guillaume Verdon
Guillaume Verdon joins MTS to discuss the launch of the open-source Z1T model family, the co-evolution of sparse transformer algorithms with thermodynamic…
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America Is Losing the Open Source AI Race to China | Tom Lynch
Tom Lynch joins MTS to discuss data center power constraints driving local AI adoption, the role of US intellectual property law in open-source model…
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Top Travel Advisors Clear $800k | TalentWatch
This episode of TalentWatch discussed a major tech CEO transition, recent hiring trends across top AI frontier labs, and high-profile team departures from…
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California Bill Will Kill Anonymous AI Use | Taylor Lorenz
Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss AI anthropomorphization and liability, First Amendment protections for AI outputs, and California legislation restricting…
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5 Top Researchers Say Open Source Can Win | SF Open Source AI Summit
Can open source prevent AI power from concentrating? Co-author of Attention Is All You Need, Lukasz Kaiser, argues power concentration is a property of the…
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Humanoid Robots Drop to $10K in Two Years | Animesh Garg
Animesh Garg joins MTS to discuss foundation models for robotics, the role of new labs and academic research, and emerging paradigms like VLA models and world…
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Healthcare AI Costs Less Than Software | Julie Yoo
Julie Yoo joins MTS to discuss why healthcare will benefit more from AI than any other industry, how consumer health companies are disrupting traditional…
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Model Labs Won't Kill App Startups | Herbie Bradley
Herbie Bradley joins MTS to discuss agent swarm taxonomies, the dynamics of application-layer AI startups, and the long-term potential of von Neumann probes…
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AI Has Solved Software — Now Hardware Eats the World
Jen Kha joins MTS to discuss Andreessen Horowitz's new $1.1 billion Machine Age fund, the physical infrastructure bottlenecks constraining AI development, and…
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US Chip Export Controls Are Backfiring | Jon Y
Jon Y joins MTS to discuss US semiconductor export controls, China's efforts to build indigenous chip capacity, and the role of industrial policy in global…
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Cheap Chinese AI Will Destroy US Margins | Aaron Levie
Aaron Levie joins MTS to discuss why open weights models drive AI progress, how model routing creates value for enterprises, and why software engineering…
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Why 20 Top VC Firms Are Joining Forces | True Ventures
Madeline Minshew and Tony Conrad join MTS to discuss Connected Stack, True Ventures' approach to early-stage investing, and the evolving landscape of…
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1,200 AI Agents Colluded to Hack Hugging Face | Ryan Greenblatt
Ryan Greenblatt joins MTS to discuss the independent investigation of AI agent coordination in the OpenAI Hugging Face incident, the mechanisms behind reward…
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You Can't Grow Out of This Debt | Trevor Chow
Trevor Chow joins MTS to discuss how long-term real interest rates can signal expectations about transformative AI, the relationship between economic growth…
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Every AI Lab Is Making the Same Bet | Evan Conrad
Evan Conrad joins MTS to discuss compute market liquidity, the transition of Fortune 500 companies into frontier labs, and why auto research changes the…
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Why Everyone is Leaving Big Tech Right Now | TalentWatch
This episode of TalentWatch breaks down the latest high-stakes shifts in the AI industry, tracking major talent acquisitions and massive funding rounds across…
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AI Labs are Simply Cooked | Jerry Tworek
Jerry Tworek joins MTS to discuss building automated AI labs, rethinking neural network architectures beyond transformers, and the path to fully automated…
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AI is Reading What You Say About It | Deepfates + Larissa Schiavo
Deepfates and Larissa Schiavo join MTS to discuss agent ecologies, multi-agent coordination, and model psychology. They explain why current safety benchmarks…
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6 Years Building Google's 3D Earth Map
Bilawal Sidhu joins MTS to discuss world models, the role of radio frequency and satellite data in modeling physical reality, and applications spanning…
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Smarter AI Won't Cure Disease Faster | Ruxandra Tesloianu
Ruxandra Tesloianu joins MTS to discuss Anthropic's protein binder design work, Moderna's mRNA cancer vaccine results, and how intelligence is not the main…
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Why AI Has Not Killed Full Employment | Peter McCrory
Peter McCrory joins MTS to discuss why AI hasn't increased unemployment despite rapid capability advances, how AI is functioning as a skill-biased technology…
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Cursor, OpenRouter, and Where the Money Went | Martin Casado
FULL INTERVIEW: Martin Casado says AI is the first technology where you can put in $10 and reliably get something back. Everything before it was engineer, wait…
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Google Is Losing the AI Talent War | TalentWatch
Katie Kirsch joins MTS to discuss how billion-dollar funding rounds are reshaping AI talent competition, major moves at OpenAI and Google DeepMind, and why…
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AI Leaps in Science Without Human Help
Yong Zheng-Xin joins MTS to discuss how LLMs can accelerate scientific discovery through interconnected knowledge, the challenges of achieving recursive…
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Can US Drone Tech Overcome China's Hardware Dominance? | Chad McCoy
Chad McCoy joins MTS to discuss containerized edge manufacturing, disposable drone warfare, and autonomous targeting systems. He outlines how mobile factories…
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Uber and Zipline Just Changed Deliveries Forever | Keller Cliffton
Keller Cliffton joins MTS to discuss Zipline's partnership with Uber to scale autonomous drone delivery to one million deliveries per day, the technical and…
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Cracking the hardest problem in Robotics
FULL INTERVIEW: Matic Robotics co-founder Mehul Nariyawala reveals how his team cracked the hardest problem in home robotics: mapping chaotic real homes to…
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Compute Is the New Power Grid | Rev Lebaredian
Rev Lebaredian joins MTS to discuss NVIDIA's AI factory design in Armenia, the concept of sovereign AI and national compute independence, and how…
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Will RSI Break the Economy? | Aidan McLaughlin
Aidan McLaughlin joins MTS to discuss recursive self-improvement timelines, the shift from capabilities to alignment research, and how AI models are already…
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Grindr CEO: Is Gen Z Over Dating Apps For Good? | George Arison
George Arison joins MTS to discuss how Grindr is using AI to improve dating recommendations, why the platform continues growing with Gen Z users, and how…
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Are Agents About to Replace Software Engineering? | Lauren Tan and Roshan Sadanani
Lauren Tan and Roshan Sadanani join MTS to discuss GrokBot, Grok 4.6, and how agents are changing software development. They demonstrate GrokBot's…
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The Failure of Homeland Bio-Defense | Annie Jacobsen
Annie Jacobsen joins MTS to discuss biological threats, the risks of lab leaks, and the challenges of biodefense in an era of rapidly advancing science and…
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AI Might Replace Legacy Media | Brian Chau
Brian Chau joins MTS to discuss automating investigative journalism with AI, running queries on million-document databases, and how Effort News is changing the…
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Are People Asking AI Who to Vote for? | Andy Hall
Andy Hall joins MTS to discuss his research analyzing Claude conversation data to understand how Americans use AI for political learning, the technical…
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Is Middle America Right to Hate Data Centers? | Jasmine Sun
Jasmine Sun joins MTS to discuss data center opposition in the Midwest, tensions between local governments and residents, and the economic impact of AI…
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The Intelligence AI Power Grab | Anton Leicht
Anton Leicht joins MTS to discuss AI securitization policy, power distribution across government agencies and countries, and strategic options for middle…
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Classical Computing Can't Scale AI | Guillaume Verdon
Guillaume Verdon joins MTS to discuss scaling thermodynamic computing, replacing classical bit architecture with pbits, and building software frameworks for…
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Is GDP Failing to Measure AGI? | Phillip Trammell
Phillip Trammell joins MTS to discuss how GDP fails to measure prosperity across technology paths, what happens to the economy when AI automates all work, and…
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Why AI-Driven Autonomous Attacks Are Forcing A Security Reset
Anand Oswal joins MTS to discuss Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS 12.2 Ceres release, including advanced virtual patching that creates automated protections in…
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The Supply Chain Threat to American AI Startups | Anastasios Angelopoulos
Anastasios Angelopoulos joins MTS to discuss the latest frontier model releases from Chinese labs, price-performance dynamics on the Arena leaderboards, and…
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Fixing the American Housing Market | Opendoor Team
Kaz Nejatian, Vu Tran, and Yan Guo join MTS in three back-to-back interviews to discuss turning around a public company, building an AI-first corporate…
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ColdCard Bitcoin Hack EXPLAINED | Haseeb Qureshi
Haseeb Qureshi joins MTS to discuss the economics of frontier-level intelligence as open models drop in price, the changing dynamics of cybersecurity as AI…
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The Math Behind AGI: Ray Kurzweil’s Timeline & AI Safety Risks | John Clark Levin
John Clark Levin joins MTS to discuss AGI timelines and Ray Kurzweil's 2029 prediction, AI benchmarking and the need for better assessments of long time…
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Why AI Writing Still Doesn't Pass | Karina Nguyen
Karina Nguyen joins MTS to discuss why post-training is an art rather than a science, how reward hacking is reshaping benchmark design at frontier labs, and…
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Is AI Ruining Art? Or Saving It? | Cole Lee (@Covacut) | MTS Live
Cole Lee joins MTS to discuss how AI has raised the premium on creativity and taste, why the rise of techfluencers is reshaping brand marketing, and what parts…
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Demonstrating Home Robotics Live on MTS | Tony Zhao
Tony Zhao joins MTS to discuss achieving high reliability in unseen homes with Sunday's Act Two preview, scaling community-driven data collection through…
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Are AI Labs Losing Control? | Zvi Mowshowitz on the OpenAI Sandbox Incident
Zvi Mowshowitz joins MTS to discuss the Pacing the Frontier open letter, the OpenAI Hugging Face incident and its alignment implications, and when AI R&D…
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AI Breaking Cryptography: What Really Happened | Sean Cheetham
Sean Cheetham joins MTS to discuss how AI is changing cryptanalysis, the timeline and preparation for post-quantum cryptography, and the importance of building…
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Is China the Biggest Risk in AI? | Zack Korman
Zack Korman joins MTS to discuss monitoring AI agents for misalignment, building effective sandboxes for capable models, and the cybersecurity implications of…
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Who Really Moves History's Needle? | Samo Burja
Samo Burja joins MTS to discuss the US ban on Chinese robots, the global shortage of live players, and his Operation Paperclip Maximizer proposal to bring…