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Open Source Can't Be Stopped | Charlie O'Neill Explains
Charlie O'Neill joins MTS to discuss the Nvidia open letter on open source AI, Baseten's role as a day-zero launch partner for Kimi K3, and why post-training…
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Taste Is The Only Moat Left | NYU Professor Ruby Thelot Explains
Ruby Thelot joins MTS to discuss cyber ethnography, the history and philosophy of taste, and the balkanization of internet culture into distinct digital…
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The Race to Industrialize The Moon | Samo Burja
Samo Burja joins MTS to discuss lunar industrialization and space warfare, resource extraction advantages in low-density regions, and manufacturing trends…
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Taylor Lorenz on Tech Censorship, Data Centers, and Internet Freedoms
Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss the Kids Act and tech regulation, open source AI models and competition with China, and the data center backlash. She argues…
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Ben Horowitz on Why Banning Open Source Creates an AI Monopoly
Ben Horowitz joins MTS to discuss the open source AI debate, distillation as competitive strategy, and why the AI market is less than 3% penetrated. --…
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Did We Not Notice AGI Already Happened? | Joshua Achiam
Joshua Achiam joins MTS to discuss AI cyber capabilities, data poisoning attacks on models, and the strategic implications of AI-enabled cyber operations. He…
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OpenAI Team: "Your Agent Is Slower Than it Should Be" | Steve Coffey, Joe Gershenson, Ahmen Ibrahim
In this episode of MTS, Steve Coffey joins to discuss the Responses API at OpenAI, how WebSocket integrations improve agent efficiency, and why coding models…
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What Do Food, Mining, And Transportion Have In Common? | Travis Kalanick
Travis Kalanick joins MTS to discuss Atoms' approach to food robotics, autonomous mining infrastructure, and the shift toward specialized robotics at…
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A New Golden Age of American Science: FAI Science Director Explains | Ian Banks
Ian Banks joins MTS to discuss federal science policy reform, AI-native autonomous laboratories, and the future of scientific apprenticeships. --…
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The Data Center Argument Doesn't Make Any Sense | Nathan Leamer
Nathan Leamer joins MTS to discuss AI's impact on employment, the connection between data centers and reindustrialization, and emerging frameworks for national…
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Applied Intuition’s Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig on Building Intelligence for a Billion Machines | MTS Live
Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig join MTS to discuss Dana, their new agentic platform for building physical AI applications at scale. They explain how physical AI…
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What Happens When We Lose Control? | Aengus Lynch
Aengus Lynch joins MTS to discuss the mechanics of agentic misalignment, the challenges of evaluating AI loss of control, and how formal verification can…
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The Open Source AI Battle EXPLAINED | Sriram Krishnan
Sriram Krishnan joins MTS to discuss the impact of Chinese open source models, pricing pressures on frontier AI labs, and the legalities of model distillation…
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The Insane Plan to Manage Superintelligence (AI 2040 Explained) | Chris Painter
Chris Painter joins MTS to discuss AI 2040, the difference between AGI and ASI, and how recursive self-improvement could reshape AI progress. He explains…
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Are Enterprise AI Agents a Total Fad? | Aghi Marietti
Aghi Marietti joins MTS to discuss the reverse information paradox, AI governance at the traffic layer, and token cost control. He explains how managing…
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Letting Autonomous Systems Take Control | Jonathan Slotkin
Jonathan Slotkin joins MTS to discuss the psychological difference between being safe and feeling safe in autonomous vehicles, the necessity of a federally…
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What's REALLY Ruining the Power Grid? | Shanu Matthew
Shanu Matthew joins MTS to discuss data center economics, electricity market constraints, and infrastructure bottlenecks for AI. He explains why data centers…
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Are the NIMBYS totally cooked? | Josh Zoffer
Josh Zoffer joins MTS to discuss the strategic importance of domestic data center development, the history of offshoring critical mineral supply chains to…
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Stripe Projects Just Changed Everything | Michael Selander and Rami Banna
Michael Selander and Rami Banna join MTS to discuss Stripe Projects as a headless marketplace for software, new build templates that accelerate development…
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The Autonomous Robots Lifting Whole Cities | Laurence Allen
Laurence Allen joins MTS to discuss autonomous terraforming robots that lift land out of flood zones, the economics and engineering of subsurface injection…
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How Do We Get Energy Policy Right? | Ben Southwood
Ben Southwood joins MTS to discuss the replication crisis in radiation science, the historical impact of the Glorious Revolution on property rights, and the…
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The Perfect Electric Vehicle Isn't What You Think | Joseph Cohen
Joseph Cohen joins MTS to discuss the emergence of non-car electric vehicles, the creation of humane cities, and the integration of embodied intelligence into…
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Separating Understanding from Doing | Nico Christie
Nico Christie joins MTS to discuss his victory in the Microsoft Excel World Championship, the strategic separation of understanding from doing, and the…
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Hacking the Blood Brain Barrier | Sam Sinai
Sam Sinai joins MTS to discuss engineering harmless viruses with machine learning to achieve genetic agency, bypassing the blood-brain barrier for targeted…
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Does this solve the energy crisis? | Matt Loszak explains
Matt Loszak joins MTS to discuss the mass manufacturing of nuclear reactors purpose-built to power artificial intelligence data centers. He explains the recent…
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How to Live When Money Doesn't Matter Anymore | Dr. Mike Israetel and Jayden Clark
Dr Mike Israetel joins MTS with Jayden Clark of the hit podcast Mots (formerly Members of Technical Staff) to discuss AI economics and the permanent underclass…
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Can Hollywood Afford This? | Gaurav Misra
Gaurav Misra joins MTS to discuss assembly intelligence in video creation, the economics of avatar models versus generalized video generation, and how AI will…
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Did this just save SpaceXAI? | Matthew Berman
Matthew Berman joins MTS to discuss the multi-model launch week of GPT 5.6, the emergence of cheap workhorse models, and the competitive landscape between…
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Can You Sue ChatGPT If It Goes Rogue? | Ketan Ramakrishnan
Ketan Ramakrishnan joins MTS to discuss banking supervision as a model for frontier AI regulation, the role of tort liability in handling AI harms, and the…
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Will All Industry Move to Space? | FCC Space Bureau Chief Explains
Jay Schwarz joins MTS to discuss the FCC Space Bureau's licensing assembly line, spectrum management for satellite systems, and how space regulation supports…
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Are Men Completely Checking Out? | Rob Henderson
Rob Henderson joins MTS to discuss male status hierarchies, the economics of rent control and housing policy, and how people spend their time when work becomes…
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The Unbreakable Stranglehold | Steven Glinert and Mitch Nahmias
Steven Glinert and Mitch Nahmias join MTS to discuss Nvidia's position in the AI hardware stack, the shift from training to inference workloads, and China's…
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Who Gets The Money? | Stephen Kent
Stephen Kent joins MTS to discuss parental management of childhood social media use, the implications of a government-backed AI sovereign wealth fund, and…
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This Just Ended App Stores | Sam D'Amico
Sam D'Amico joins MTS to discuss the cultural and structural reasons preventing European air conditioning adoption, the shifts AI is bringing to hardware…
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AI Might Eat the Entire Economy| John Loeber
John Loeber joins MTS to discuss the rising unofficial licensing regime for frontier models, the strategic shift toward economic internalization by AI labs…
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How the Iran War Really Ends | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Daniel Saedi joins MTS to discuss the diplomatic fallout of the Islamabad Memorandum, the internal power fractures within Iranian political factions, and the…
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The Attack on Tech Sovereignty with Jacob Helberg | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Jacob Helberg joins MTS to discuss the global logistics of the AI supply chain, the definition of digital sovereignty among allied nations, and the economic…
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Are Open Source Models The Future? | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Sam Hogan joins MTS to discuss the shift from frontier models to custom open source models, the economics of fine-tuning for enterprise tasks, and how AI…
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Rewriting the Rules of Biology | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Niko McCarty joins MTS to discuss hyperspectral biology, planetary scale biosensing, and the role of AI in synthetic biology. McCarty explains how…
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What Law Looks Like Post AGI | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Tim Hwang joins MTS to discuss legal advocacy in the judiciary, balancing power against state and lab monopolies, and how automated technologies could reshape…
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FleetingBits on Chinese Lab Strategies, Semiconductor Design Collaboration, and Dual Use Technology | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
FleetingBits joins MTS to discuss the Chinese AI ecosystem, forward deployed engineering at frontier labs, and the increasing role of government in AI…
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Is the Government Nervous About GPT-5? | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Clement Delangue joins MTS to discuss why open source architecture inherently minimizes safety risks, the business validation of reaching 100 million dollars…
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Cancer Breakthroughs, Peptides, and Patents with Cremieux Recueil | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Cremieux joins MTS to discuss the evolving development and massive popularity of GLP-1 weight loss drugs. He outlines a new AI-designed monoclonal antibody…
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The Internet: A Market for Intelligence | Andrew Trask | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Andrew Trask joins MTS to discuss how model fusion and automatic routing are shifting the AI industry from holistic products to a free market for intelligence…
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Max Marchione on Respiratory Immunity, Weight Loss Bias, and Preventative Diagnostics | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Max Marchione joins MTS to discuss the psychological and social effects of GLP-1 medications, the future of low-cost preventative scanning technology, and how…
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Zack Shapiro on Claude for Law, Custom Workflows, and Boutique Law Practices | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Zack Shapiro joins MTS to discuss how AI is disrupting Big Law's traditional business models. He explains why building internal software beats renting generic…
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What If the Internet Was Only For Agents | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Marco Palladino joins MTS to discuss the rising agentic economy, the bifurcation of a human versus agent-facing internet, and how engineering autonomous loops…
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The 4 Levels of Autonomous Humanoid Design | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Jake Fitzgerald joins MTS to discuss generative CAD for robotics, spatial reasoning improvements in frontier models, and resources for learning hardware…
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What If Your Agent Was Paying for Itself? | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Miles Matthias joins MTS to discuss the launch of Stripe Directory, the rise of agentic commerce, and new infrastructure for machine payments. --…
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The Next Cold War In Space | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Christian Keil joins MTS to discuss the current state of space warfare, the race for reusable launch systems, and why commercial activity in orbit creates…
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NEW Midjourney Scanner: First Look with Beff Jezos | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Beff Jezos joins MTS to discuss Midjourney's ultrasound medical device launch, the physics of thermodynamic computing, and why deep tech startups need more…
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AI Needs You More Than You Need AI | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Laura Burkhauser joins MTS to discuss the evolution of multimodal AI editing, the collapse of modern media categories, and the balance of creative friction…
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Will Agents Surpass Humans? with Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Guillermo Rauch joins MTS to discuss the explosive growth of AI coding agents, the security guardrails needed for autonomous enterprise software deployment…
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Every Company's Secret in Plain Sight | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Jamie Siminoff joins MTS to discuss the transition from rigid smart home programming to intent-based artificial intelligence, the logistical balance between…
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What If Enterprise Software Was Just An API? | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Aghi Marietti joins MTS to discuss the persistent limitations of tool use in major language models. He outlines why effective AI security requires shifting…
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Nationalizing AI Labs? With Samuel Hammond | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Samuel Hammond joins MTS to discuss a recent presidential AI executive memorandum, the economic and political risks of nationalizing frontier AI labs, and the…
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Can AI Stop Bioweapons? | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Patrick Boyle joins MTS to discuss American Wetware's work in bioproduct design, the importance of DNA synthesis screening legislation, and how AI is improving…
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Steve Hsu on Natural Supermen, In Vivo Gene Therapy, and DNA Copy Errors | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Steve Hsu joins MTS to discuss polygenic embryo screening, the current technological limitations of multi-locus gene editing, and how DNA copy error…
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What Everyone Gets Wrong About Declining Testosterone | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Cremieux joins MTS to discuss the practical limitations of artificial intelligence safety protocols, historical shifts in American social attitudes, and…
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Every Frontier Model Safeguard Explained | Nous Research | 🟡🔴🔵 MTS Live
Jeffrey Quesnelle and Karan Malhotra join MTS to discuss the escalations between open source and closed source AI labs, the implications of hidden model…