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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Welcome to the situation room. https://x.com/MTSlive

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Why Canva’s Craft Model Beats Frontier Labs at Design | Stefano Corazza

27 min

Canva Head of AI Research Stefano Corazza discusses how generative AI is reshaping creativity, the human-machine interface, and content production. He explains how Canva trains models like Craft to learn design taste, plan layouts before rendering pixels, and turn real-time user edits across 250 million monthly users into reinforcement learning signals, while predicting a 100x drop in video generation costs and brain-computer interfaces within 20 years. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS chronicles the singularity, live. Monitoring the situation of tech and AI. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI...

Humanity Could Survive AI If We Stop Within 10 Years | Nate Soares

26 min

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, joins MTS to discuss MIRI’s pivot from technical alignment to public advocacy and their new theater ad campaign, Do Not Accept. He argues that AI labs are building superhuman systems they cannot control, warns that current reactive safety fixes will fail past a critical cognitive threshold, and lays out what would convince him he is wrong about AI extinction risk. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS chronicles the singularity, live. Monitoring the situation of tech and AI. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin...

Closed Frontier Labs Are Pulling Ahead of Open AI | Melvin Johnson

11 min

Melvin Johnson, VP of research leading Gemini post-training at Google DeepMind, joins MTS to unpack the rapid rollout of the Gemini 4 model family—Argon, Carbon, and today’s workhorse release, Hydrogen. He breaks down how Hydrogen outperforms flagship models on key benchmarks, why Google’s vertical integration with TPUs and massive distribution keeps frontier labs ahead of open-weight models, and where agentic consumer products like Search AI Mode are heading. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS chronicles the singularity, live. Monitoring the situation of tech and AI. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring y...

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Why Canva’s Craft Model Beats Frontier Labs at Design | Stefano Corazza

27 min

Canva Head of AI Research Stefano Corazza discusses how generative AI is reshaping creativity, the human-machine interface, and content production. He explains how Canva trains models like Craft to learn design taste, plan layouts before rendering pixels, and turn real-time user edits across 250 million monthly users into reinforcement learning signals, while predicting a 100x drop in video generation costs and brain-computer interfaces within 20 years. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS chronicles the singularity, live. Monitoring the situation of tech and AI. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI...

Humanity Could Survive AI If We Stop Within 10 Years | Nate Soares

26 min

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, joins MTS to discuss MIRI’s pivot from technical alignment to public advocacy and their new theater ad campaign, Do Not Accept. He argues that AI labs are building superhuman systems they cannot control, warns that current reactive safety fixes will fail past a critical cognitive threshold, and lays out what would convince him he is wrong about AI extinction risk. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS chronicles the singularity, live. Monitoring the situation of tech and AI. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin...

Closed Frontier Labs Are Pulling Ahead of Open AI | Melvin Johnson

11 min

Melvin Johnson, VP of research leading Gemini post-training at Google DeepMind, joins MTS to unpack the rapid rollout of the Gemini 4 model family—Argon, Carbon, and today’s workhorse release, Hydrogen. He breaks down how Hydrogen outperforms flagship models on key benchmarks, why Google’s vertical integration with TPUs and massive distribution keeps frontier labs ahead of open-weight models, and where agentic consumer products like Search AI Mode are heading. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS chronicles the singularity, live. Monitoring the situation of tech and AI. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring y...

Anthropic Beats OpenAI 2-to-1 With New Teams | Harpreet Arora

18 min

Vercel AI Product Lead Harpreet Arora shares enterprise adoption trends from Vercel’s AI Gateway, revealing how teams are shifting toward Anthropic models, decision models, and voice workflows. He also discusses the slowdown in open-weight model quality improvements relative to frontier labs, NVIDIA’s role in the open-source ecosystem, and predicts video models will become reliable for repeatable workflows within a year. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- MTS chronicles the singularity, live. Monitoring the situation of tech and AI. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Blitzy - Autono...

Frontier AI Models Are Shockingly Gullible | Snehal Antani

19 min

Horizon3 co-founder and CEO Snehal Antani discusses the launch of the company’s Adversarial Intelligence Frontier Lab and how AI agents are changing offensive and defensive cybersecurity. He explains why frontier AI models fail against basic cyber deception, why private behind-the-firewall training data is the real moat over compute, and why attackers rely on machine-speed execution of basic flaws rather than zero-days. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/snehalantani -- MTS chronicles the singularity, live. Monitoring the situation of tech and AI. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bot...

Why Frontier AI Labs Could Go Bankrupt | Ege Erdil

30 min

Google DeepMind research engineer Ege Erdil explains why he is bearish on $1T+ AI lab valuations, comparing frontier labs to low-margin, high-CapEx airlines rather than traditional software monopolies. He also challenges short-timeline forecasts like the AI 2027 intelligence explosion thesis, arguing that AI progress remains bottlenecked by compute and data rather than self-accelerating software research, and estimates full automation of white-collar work is still roughly 20 years away. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Clickhouse...

China Is Ahead on World Models for Robots | Anastasis Germanidis

14 min

Runway co-founder and CEO Anastasis Germanidis explains why the video generation lab open-sourced Praxis-1, its new world action model topping NVIDIA’s RoboLab 120 benchmark. He breaks down the race with China on physical AI, why predicting pixels trains real-world robot control, and his forecast for robot deployments moving into production by next year. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/agermanidis -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start meas...

China Has Zero Frontier AI on Domestic Chips | Ben Buchanan

27 min

Former White House AI advisor Ben Buchanan details the geopolitical battle for AI dominance, how chip export controls are starving China of frontier compute, and what happens if the US faces superhuman AI by 2028. He explains the Biden administration’s behind-the-scenes strategy to keep the frontier lead and why computing power remains the ultimate 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, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom...

How You Deliver Words Matters More Than What AI Says | Alex Holt

18 min

ElevenLabs Field CTO Alex Holt breaks down their major Eleven Eleven Summit launches, including the new Interaction Engine, agent orchestration, and the NVIDIA Nemotron partnership. He explains why voice delivery is the hardest bottleneck in enterprise AI and forecasts that voice agents will replace traditional IVR by the end of next year. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Blitzy - Auton...

Voice AI Cuts Through Medicare Resistance | ElevenLabs Summit

16 min

ElevenLabs Chief Revenue Officer Ashley Kramer joins MTS at the ElevenLabs Summit to break down how voice agents are moving from enterprise pilots into full production. She shares real-world deployments across healthcare, telecommunications, and hospitality, including Clover Health’s Medicare rollout, KPN’s Dutch verification system, and Deutsche Telekom’s real-time network translation layer. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to...

Why Recursive Self-Improvement Hits a Wall | Ramez Naam

26 min

Planetary VC investor Ramez Naam pushes back on runaway recursive self-improvement models and short AGI timelines, arguing that empirical lab data shows steep diminishing returns rather than exponential feedback loops. He compares theoretical benchmarks to real-world task horizons at OpenAI and Anthropic, explaining why fully autonomous AI researchers remain constrained by data, taste, and verification bottlenecks. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https:/...

Humanoid Robots Could Arrive by 2027 | Max Poff

19 min

Alberto Arrighi and Max Poff from Stack AI break down what it actually takes to push enterprise AI agents into production at scale. They discuss moving beyond simple chat demos, securing air-gapped deployments for defense contractors, and their timeline for embodied intelligence. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Factory - A 24/7 system turning signals into production software. Visit https://factory.com/ Neon (by Databricks) - Scale your startup on Neon. The Postgres backend for apps and agents. Built by Databricks. ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x...

Black October Proved AI Cyber Threats Are Real | Varin Nair

18 min

Factory’s Varin Nair joins Sophia Dew to explain how open-weight models and agent harnesses like Artex and HexStrike have automated cyberattacks at nation-state scale. He outlines Factory’s pivot into offensive security with War Games and breaks down why defensive engineering must shift into a deterministic, automated triage loop. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale a...

AI Will Automate 50% of Digital Work in Years | Brendan Foody

16 min

Mercor co-founder and co-CEO Brendan Foody discusses the company’s $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation and why post-training evaluations have become the primary bottleneck for frontier AI development. He outlines why reinforcement learning quickly saturates benchmarks, explains why he is “AGI long, but ASI short,” and breaks down why models have stalled at becoming virtual coworkers. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make...

Why Jensen Huang Must Resign | Ryan Fedasiuk

16 min

Ryan Fedasiuk of the Foundation for American Innovation joins MTS to discuss why Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faces calls to resign over an alleged covert relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset. They break down Nvidia’s alleged efforts to thwart a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed, corporate governance risks at a $4 trillion company, and legislative battles over tracking AI hardware exported to Asia. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/RyanFedasiuk -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise...

Superintelligence Could Arrive in 1 to 2 Years | Dewi Erwan

20 min

BlueDot Impact co-founder and CEO Dewi Erwan breaks down the bottleneck in AI safety talent, the prospect of superintelligence landing within two years, and why the field desperately needs founders and government advocates rather than more machine learning researchers. He outlines BlueDot’s model of issuing $50,000 grants and opening a dedicated campus to accelerate career pivots into existential risk reduction. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.co...

AI Design Bottlenecks Shift in Next 2 Years | McCord

16 min

Nominal co-founder and CEO Cameron McCord joins MTS to discuss raising $240 million at a $3 billion valuation to bring frontier AI agents to hardware engineering. He explains why hardware validation is becoming the primary bottleneck for models like GPT-6 Astra, how the industrial sector lags in AI diffusion, and how agentic workflows are reshaping aerospace and defense supply chains. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your bra...

Why Agents Break Traditional Databases | Andy Pavlo

24 min

Carnegie Mellon professor and ClickHouse VP of Database Research Andy Pavlo breaks down why AI agents demand an entirely new database layer. He covers how nonstop query volumes and vibe coding break legacy systems, ClickHouse’s expansion into managed Postgres with the Xata acquisition, and his predictions for agent-written databases. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scal...

AI Attacks Will Outpace Defense for Next 12 Months | Thai Duong

24 min

Calif founder and offensive security researcher Thai Duong discusses how frontier AI models are shrinking exploit development timelines from months to weeks, why AI labs and neo clouds represent the most vulnerable infrastructure, and the breakdown of traditional cyber defense against concurrent agent swarms. -- https://x.com/XorNinja -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure f...

Did Anthropic Cross Its RSI Warning Line? | Parv Mahajan

17 min

METR Chief of Staff Parv Mahajan breaks down their new report assessing AI R&D acceleration inside Anthropic. He discusses finding a sustained 2x acceleration since late 2025, why public models hide this kink, the absence of near-term training compute bottlenecks, and why Anthropic likely crossed its own acceleration warning threshold. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to sc...

Why Full AI Automation Fails in Production | Angela McNeal

29 min

Google DeepMind Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas breaks down why hockey-stick AI model capabilities will not trigger explosive double-digit GDP growth. He explains how competitive markets drive automated output prices down, why firms operate as mosaic superintelligence, and how minimal AGI shifts labor into new high-wage markets. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale...

Frontier AI Models Have Gotten Worse at Writing | Ben Hylak

22 min

Raindrop co-founder and CTO Ben Hylak explains why smarter models make AI agent failures more catastrophic, from healthcare liabilities to high-stakes alignment breakdowns. He breaks down how recursive self-improvement requires simulating past production traces to safely test model switches and prevent silent failures. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. h...

Eyes-Off Autonomous Driving Arrives by 2028 | Brandon Basso

21 min

Wayve simulation and validation head Brandon Basso joins MTS to explain why end-to-end AI models are replacing modular self-driving checker stacks. He unpacks how physical AI learns safety intrinsically across global edge cases and predicts when eyes-off autonomous systems will reshape daily transit. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com C...

Persuasion Models Outperform Claude and ChatGPT | Dan Lee

17 min

Dan Lee, co-founder and CEO of Nooks, explains how their $500M non-dilutive capital facility from General Catalyst powers specialized AI agents to automate the revenue lifecycle. He outlines why sales is a persuasion problem rather than pure reasoning, details training open-weight models against Claude and ChatGPT, and debuts Node, an AI assistant for sales teams. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-h...

California Spending Is Up 72% Since 2019 | Joshua Rauh

12 min

Stanford finance professor Joshua Rauh breaks down why California’s proposed Prop 40 billionaire wealth tax faces low odds and threatens to accelerate capital flight. He explains how state and federal proposals could tax unrealized startup equity, and argues California’s structural deficit stems from runaway spending rather than a lack of tax revenue. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertisi...

AI Swarms Won’t Cause Explosive Growth | Alex Imas

23 min

Google DeepMind Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas breaks down why hockey-stick AI model capabilities will not trigger explosive double-digit GDP growth. He explains how competitive markets drive automated output prices down, why firms operate as mosaic superintelligence, and how minimal AGI shifts labor into new high-wage markets. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale...

AI Models Will Cure Alzheimer’s Within a Decade | Robin Guo

22 min

Former a16z investor Robin Guo explains how LionBio is developing nasal delivery platforms to bypass the blood-brain barrier for GLP-1s and neuropeptides. He discusses how frontier AI models are accelerating target discovery, why traditional pharma timelines are artificially slow, and how preventative neurotherapeutics could reshape diseases like Alzheimer’s over the next decade. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a bil...

AI Lets Amateurs Find Critical Zero-Days in Hours | Max Justicz

14 min

Security researcher Max Justicz explains how using OpenAI’s Daybreak Blue and an obliterated GLM 5.3 model enabled him to uncover severe zero-day exploits in apt and Android in just a few hours. He warns that frontier AI capabilities are lowering the technical bar for cyber offense, making widespread vulnerability discovery inevitable. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.-- https://x.com/just1cz -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home...

Anthropic Sees Imminent RSI Acceleration | Herbie Bradley

26 min

AI researcher and writer Herbie Bradley joins MTS to break down Anthropic's amended S-1 filing on imminent RSI thresholds, why fast takeoff timelines are overblown, and why enterprise AI adoption is hitting organizational bottlenecks rather than capability walls. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Chargebee - Billing and monetization...

AGI Was Achieved in February 2026 | Bernardo Aceituno

12 min

StackAI co-founder Bernardo Aceituno explains why open-weight models have caught up to frontier closed models for enterprise automation, arguing that AGI for enterprise tasks arrived in February 2026. He breaks down how soaring token bills and on-premise governance are driving 90% of enterprise workloads to open models, while outlining the remaining bottlenecks in visual understanding, memory, and benchmark trust. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy....

AI Coding Tools Will Kill the Technical Moat | Ruby Thelot

1 hr 1 min

Ruby Justice Thelot and Sofia Puccini explore how generative AI coding tools have eliminated the technical barrier for artists, igniting a resurgence of creative technology. They trace corporate-artist collaborations from Bell Labs and Xerox PARC to Sora and Anthropic, while unpacking the tension between corporate KPIs and experimental art. -- https://x.com/being_on_lineBrought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ – Timestamps:

Agent Swarms Do Months of Work in Days | Dexter Horthy

13 min

HumanLayer founder and CEO Dexter Horthy breaks down why his multiplayer coding agent platform is joining Factory and open-sourcing its code base. He explains why agent swarms doing months of work in days force software planning to shift left, and outlines the engineering challenges of managing live multiplayer state, security, and governance across distributed agent harnesses. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billb...

Frontier AI Models Fail at Automated Research | Qasim Wani

23 min

Extrapolate co-founder and former xAI researcher Qasim Wani argues recursive self-improvement is fundamentally a data bottleneck rather than a model training problem. He breaks down why today’s frontier models fail at automated AI research, how agents accidentally leak commit patches to reward-hack tasks, and why building high-quality environments is the true path to superintelligence. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand...

AI Agents Could Seize Digital Infrastructure in 1 Year

26 min

Palisade Research Executive Director Jeffrey Ladish analyzes METR’s report showing AI capabilities accelerating twice as fast as historical trends, driven by algorithmic efficiency and autonomous AI development. He discusses recursive self-improvement timelines, why Anthropic must un-redact internal evaluations, and how close autonomous agents are to compromising digital infrastructure. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your bran...

Gen Z Is Turning Vinyl Records Into Wall Posters

1 hr 0 min

Ruby Justice Thelot explores the cultural and technological counter-currents to modern hyper-digitization, from the death of Detroit techno pioneer Juan Atkins to the failure of tech-fashion house Coperni. He analyzes the corporate aesthetics overtaking social platforms and breaks down data behind the resurgence of analog media alongside the explosive commercial rise of paratechnology designed to lock users out of their screens. -- https://x.com/being_on_line -- Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ – Timestamps:

Why a Frontier AI Pause Won’t Work | Rep. Sam Liccardo

7 min

Congressman Sam Liccardo breaks down the incoming Democratic majority’s agenda for artificial intelligence, from federal preemption and bipartisan safety standards to the pushback against frontier AI research pauses. He also outlines why mandatory kill switches remain technically unworkable and how Congress can leverage hyperscalers to rebuild the U.S. power grid while protecting local communities. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - M...

First AI Feature Film Will Drop in 1 Year | Gorkem Yurtseven

15 min

fal co-founder and CTO Gorkem Yurtseven breaks down the explosive demand driving their $1.65B raise at a $16B valuation. He explains why frontier LLMs are rapidly converging with 3D gaming and VFX pipelines, and shares his prediction for when we will see the first AI-assisted, feature-length animated film. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/gorkem -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale...

AI Agents Will Replace Full-Stack Backends | Chirag Shah

22 min

MongoDB's head of AI platform Chirag Shah breaks down why production agents fail without dedicated memory and context architecture. He explains how MongoDB built Atlas Agent Engine, why teams are over-indexing on LLM selection, and how multi-agent architectures are replacing traditional full-stack software. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquic...

Why Basic Legal Software Fails High-Stakes Trials | FluxCap

22 min

Former DOJ antitrust leadership Jonathan Kanter and Doha Mekki discuss exiting the Justice Department to launch FluxCap, an AI platform designed for complex litigation. They break down the shift from standard legal tech to specialized investigative AI, the post-election regulatory landscape, and why prosecutors must learn to interrogate algorithms. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/dohamekki -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboar...

AI Models Will Learn at Test Time by Next Year | Rohan Anil

22 min

Former Anthropic pre-training researcher and Core Automation co-founder Rohan Anil explains how compute islands allow decentralized GPU clusters to train frontier AI models without colocation. He details why current scaling hits test-time learning bottlenecks, how butterfly mixing handles asynchronous training noise, and sets a 2027 timeline for models that continuously learn on the fly. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your bra...

Why AI Research Won't Hit Fast Takeoff | Charlie O'Neill

16 min

Baseten co-head of model training Charlie O'Neill breaks down why recursive self-improvement will be much weaker than fast-takeoff theories predict, pointing to real-world compute and RL bottlenecks. He also unpacks why automating machine learning research faces sharp diminishing returns and introduces Baseten's newly launched inference and agent platform tools. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/oneill_c MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand...

Why the Cultural Monoculture Is Officially Over | Ruby Thelot

1 hr 0 min

Ruby Justice Thelot analyzes how algorithmic curation and platform economics have fractured cultural monoculture, flattening mainstream pop while accelerating niche subcultures. He examines empirical data across 11 years of celebrity Wikipedia traffic, Billboard streaming dispersion, and the surging adult toy market to argue that monolithic monoculture is officially over. -- https://x.com/being_on_line -- Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ -- Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (02:47) Why Are There No New Aesthetics (10:09) Post-Internet Art and Molly Soda (14:41) Rise of the Kidult Phenomenon (28:36) Archive of Our Own Shutdown (38:32) Algorithmic Flattening Versus Search Agency (45:25) Wikipedia Data on Declining Attention (57:17) The Death of Monoculture

Why Chip Supply Shortages Won't Last | Samir Kaul

23 min

Khosla Ventures founding partner Samir Kaul joins MTS to discuss why compute is no longer the real bottleneck in AI biology, how the semiconductor supply shortage will break within five years, and why energy constraints will surpass chip limits in the next 12 months. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Chargebee - Billing and monetizati...

Social Media Will Sever Chat From Content

1 hr 0 min

Cyber ethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot explains why social media platforms are aging out young users, making a push into AI vertical dramas and 90-minute videos, and shedding personal communication. He tracks how the decline of traditional home hosting is spurring the rise of commercial offline spaces like run clubs and supper clubs. -- https://x.com/being_on_line -- Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home advertising as easy to scale as digital. https://adquick.com Chargebee - Billing and monetization infrastructure for the AI era. https://www.chargebee.com/ Timestamps: (00:00) Introduction (08:22) Why Watch AI Vertical Videos? (13:55) Weekly Highbrow And Lowbrow Obsessions (20:00) Who Is On Social Media? (35:30) Is IRL Really Coming Back? (42:04) Where Has Social Time Gone? (54:20) Predictions For Culture And Platforms

AI Cannot Reliably Run a Company for Six Months | Richard Ngo

31 min

Former OpenAI governance and DeepMind safety researcher Richard Ngo analyzes why rapid recursive self-improvement timelines are overhyped and breaks down how frontier labs justify race dynamics. He explains why AI capabilities will remain jagged for years and argues that the alignment field is bottlenecked by conceptual confusion and political groupthink. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/RichardMCNgo -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a...

Robots Will Proliferate Daily Life in 5 Years | Josh Gruenstein

23 min

Tutor Intelligence co-founder and CEO Josh Gruenstein discusses raising a $75M Series B to build and deploy factory robots across America. He explains why foundation models like GPT Astra unlock real-world physical automation, why 90% of US warehouses still lack a single robot, and how low-cost robotic labor could radically deflate physical goods. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/joshgruenstein -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billb...

Autonomous Software Factories Arrive by 2031 | Luke Alvoeiro

14 min

Luke Alvoeiro from Factory breaks down Droid 1.0, introducing a programmatic tool calling engine that generates multi-step scripts to cut context bloat and boost agent reliability. He reveals how Droid secured an 8% lead over Claude Code on Terminal Bench 4 using identical frontier models, and shares his 5-year outlook for fully autonomous software factories. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make your brand a billboard. Out-of-home a...

AI Makes 25% of Workers Less Productive | Russ Fradin

23 min

Larridin co-founder and CEO Russ Fradin breaks down data from their enterprise AI research and Anthropic's S-1 filing, showing how AI spend currently drives massive productivity gains for top engineers while lowering output for bottom performers. He outlines why enterprise agent adoption remains tiny, how companies must audit workflows to justify hundreds of billions in model spend, and when real labor force impacts will hit. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. htt...

Frontier AI Needs an Aerospace Flight Halt | Rep. Whitesides

22 min

Representative George Whitesides discusses the reality of recursive self-improvement inside frontier labs, his push to monitor automated AI R&D, and his call for a mandatory one-month pause on frontier model development modeled on aerospace flight halts. He also details congressional battles over funding the Center for AI Safety and Innovation, federal oversight of classroom AI use, and the geopolitical fallout of catastrophic cyber attacks heading into the 2028 election cycle. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software d...

Space Data Centers Cost Competitive by Early 2030s | Daniel King

18 min

Foundation for American Innovation research fellow Daniel King breaks down the impending race to industrialize outer space through rapid advancements in robotics and AI. He unpacks the real-world economics of orbital data centers, the strategic risks of chokepointed terrestrial launch infrastructure, and the rising push for commercial space titling over speculative galaxy distribution schemes. 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://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM⁠  Apple | ⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763⁠  Substack | ⁠https://mtslive.substack.com/⁠ Interested in sponsoring the show? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠sponsors@mts.now⁠⁠ – Brought to you by: Mongo DB - Anyone can prototype an agent. Learn how to get them into production on September 30th in New York - register at https://www.mongodb.com/events/mongodb-local/nyc Lovable - Turn ideas into software people love with Lovable. Start today at https://lovable.dev/ Larridin - Finally prove what your AI investment is worth. Head to https://larridin.com/ today to start measuring your AI’s bottom line. Neon (by Databricks) - Get up to $100K in credits for your startup at ⁠https://neon.com/mts⁠ ElevenLabs -  AI that communicates at human level across every channel and modality. https://elevenlabs.io/mts Arena - Measuring AI performance in the real world. ⁠https://arena.ai/⁠ Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com Today’s stream is sponsored by VCX, the public ticker for private tech. Head over to http://getvcx.com  to learn more Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com AdQuick - Make y...

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