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Nathan Labenz joins MTS to discuss the state of China's AI ecosystem, US-China coordination on AI safety, and the timeline toward automated AI researchers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/labenz -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X |...

Clara Collier joins MTS to discuss why a post-work economy powered by artificial intelligence will drive societies toward insular social conformity rather than individual freedom. She explains how historical non-working groups offer a realistic template for a UBI future and addresses the growing political polarization surrounding AI safety advocacy. She also breaks down why automated services will...

Daniel McKinnon joins MTS to discuss how AI agents analyze rare genetic diseases, why frontier models outperform traditional workflows, and how lab automation solves unknown variants. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/danielmckinn0n -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture...

Hannu Rajaniemi joins MTS to discuss advancing biological defenses faster than threats, designing broadly neutralizing antibodies across viral families, and the shifting offense-defense balance in biodefense. 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 happ...

This week's Talent Watch discusses ElevenLabs' CFO hire from Adyen, Matt Clifford stepping down from ARIA to focus on Anthropic, and OpenAI extending its startup ecosystem playbook to Australia and New Zealand. 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 cultu...

Helen Toner joins MTS to discuss US-China AI coordination prospects, the challenges of defining AGI in 2025, and China's regulatory approach to artificial 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://twit...

Theo Gillibrand joins MTS to discuss bringing perpetual futures to US equity markets, navigating CFTC and SEC regulation, and the institutional opportunity for onshore derivatives trading. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/tgillibrandny -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and cult...

Daniel Kokotajlo and Thomas Larsen join MTS to discuss AI monitorability challenges, their AI 2040 Plan A framework for safe progress to superintelligence, and the changing landscape of government AI policy. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/thlarsen -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politic...

Benjamin Robert Jaros joins MTS to discuss California's proposed billionaire tax, revenue estimates versus income tax trade-offs, and why wealth taxes face structural challenges at the state level. 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. Fo...

Ginevra Lily Davis joins MTS to discuss her essay The Silicon Man, the philosophical foundations for superintelligence alignment, and building new institutions for metaphysics and ethics research. 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...

Justin Johnson joins MTS to discuss Atlas, World Labs' multimodal world model that generates image and video frames with pixel-perfect camera control. Johnson explains how world models can be used for generation, reconstruction, and simulation across entertainment, robotics, and VR applications. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a...

Haseeb Qureshi joins MTS to discuss the Anthropic IPO's impact on crypto markets, the infrastructure enabling self-replicating AI, and how decentralized clouds create new vectors for autonomous agents. 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...

For today's industry news, MTS host Sophia Dew discuss major AI infrastructure funding trends, rapid valuation growth among hardware and security startups, and how massive data center demands are reshaping startup financing. 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, an...

Guillaume Verdon joins MTS to discuss the launch of the open-source Z1T model family, the co-evolution of sparse transformer algorithms with thermodynamic hardware, and how sparse probabilistic processing achieves a 100x efficiency gain for data center inference workloads. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview sho...

Tom Lynch joins MTS to discuss data center power constraints driving local AI adoption, the role of US intellectual property law in open-source model development, and the future distribution of global AI inference 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, a...

This episode of TalentWatch discussed a major tech CEO transition, recent hiring trends across top AI frontier labs, and high-profile team departures from Meta. Laurel Prime also joins to talk about her transition from Google to founding a startup, her new travel AI venture Astravia, and the talent dynamics shaping the AI ecosystem. Check out our sponsor Lovable: ⁠ https://lovable.dev .⁠ Turn idea...

Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss AI anthropomorphization and liability, First Amendment protections for AI outputs, and California legislation restricting access to health information through chatbots. 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....

Can open source prevent AI power from concentrating? Co-author of Attention Is All You Need, Lukasz Kaiser⁠, argues power concentration is a property of the transformer, not a permanent feature of AI. In this episode, MTS host Sophia Dew visits the Open Source AI Summit in San Francisco to ask researchers and founders working at different layers of AI. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovabl...

Animesh Garg joins MTS to discuss foundation models for robotics, the role of new labs and academic research, and emerging paradigms like VLA models and world models. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/animesh_garg -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Foll...

Julie Yoo joins MTS to discuss why healthcare will benefit more from AI than any other industry, how consumer health companies are disrupting traditional payment models, and the rise of AI native medical practices that combine real doctors with AI efficiency. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering...

Herbie Bradley joins MTS to discuss agent swarm taxonomies, the dynamics of application-layer AI startups, and the long-term potential of von Neumann probes. He outlines how explicit continual learning affects enterprise market power and explains why specialized AI applications continue to thrive alongside major foundation model labs. He also shares his perspectives on robotics timelines, nanoscal...

Jen Kha joins MTS to discuss Andreessen Horowitz's new $1.1 billion Machine Age fund, the physical infrastructure bottlenecks constraining AI development, and how countries are accelerating technology adoption as a national priority. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/jkhamehl -- MTS is a live news and interview show cover...

Jon Y  joins MTS to discuss US semiconductor export controls, China's efforts to build indigenous chip capacity, and the role of industrial policy in global technology supply chains. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/asianometry -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture...

Aaron Levie joins MTS to discuss why open weights models drive AI progress, how model routing creates value for enterprises, and why software engineering ambition expands with AI capabilities. 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:...

Madeline Minshew and Tony Conrad join MTS to discuss Connected Stack, True Ventures' approach to early-stage investing, and the evolving landscape of enterprise AI adoption. They explore how venture firms are collaborating to support founders, the shift from token maximization to cost-conscious model selection, and the behavioral changes required for AI to deliver real value at scale. Check ou...