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Jasmine Sun joins MTS to discuss data center opposition in the Midwest, tensions between local governments and residents, and the economic impact of AI infrastructure projects on skilled trades and communities. 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...

Anton Leicht joins MTS to discuss AI securitization policy, power distribution across government agencies and countries, and strategic options for middle powers building sovereign AI capacity. 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 Spo...

Guillaume Verdon joins MTS to discuss scaling thermodynamic computing, replacing classical bit architecture with pbits, and building software frameworks for stochastic programming. He outlines the trade-offs between numerical precision and power efficiency when running AI models on low-power chips. Additionally, he shares how thermodynamic systems can co-exist with GPUs to tackle complex frontier...

Phillip Trammell joins MTS to discuss how GDP fails to measure prosperity across technology paths, what happens to the economy when AI automates all work, and why he believes humans should own machines rather than letting them own themselves. -- https://x.com/pawtrammell -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠...

Anand Oswal joins MTS to discuss Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS 12.2 Ceres release, including advanced virtual patching that creates automated protections in hours, AI-powered security agents with human-in-the-loop verification, and quantum safe cryptographic agility. Oswal shares how Unit 42 discovered over 14,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities in open source projects using frontier AI models...

Anastasios Angelopoulos joins MTS to discuss the latest frontier model releases from Chinese labs, price-performance dynamics on the Arena leaderboards, and the business models behind American open source AI. -- https://x.com/ml_angelopoulos -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ Y...

Kaz Nejatian, Vu Tran, and Yan Guo join MTS in three back-to-back interviews to discuss turning around a public company, building an AI-first corporate culture, and scaling real estate market making using proprietary data and machine learning. -- https://x.com/nejatian https://x.com/vu0tran https://x.com/yang_guo -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and...

Haseeb Qureshi joins MTS to discuss the economics of frontier-level intelligence as open models drop in price, the changing dynamics of cybersecurity as AI makes vulnerability discovery faster and cheaper, and how AI-native startups are building fundamentally different organizational structures. -- https://x.com/hosseeb -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politi...

John Clark Levin joins MTS to discuss AGI timelines and Ray Kurzweil's 2029 prediction, AI benchmarking and the need for better assessments of long time horizon tasks, and the role of chain of thought in enabling mathematical breakthroughs. -- https://x.com/JohnClarkLevin -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠...

Karina Nguyen joins MTS to discuss why post-training is an art rather than a science, how reward hacking is reshaping benchmark design at frontier labs, and why AI writing still sounds robotic to most readers. 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/...

Cole Lee joins MTS to discuss how AI has raised the premium on creativity and taste, why the rise of techfluencers is reshaping brand marketing, and what parts of the creative process AI can never replace. 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/@mts...

Tony Zhao joins MTS to discuss achieving high reliability in unseen homes with Sunday's Act Two preview, scaling community-driven data collection through memory developers, and running full policy inference directly on device. -- https://x.com/tonyzzhao -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitte...

Zvi Mowshowitz joins MTS to discuss the Pacing the Frontier open letter, the OpenAI Hugging Face incident and its alignment implications, and when AI R&D automation should trigger concern. He also covers government technical capacity for AI governance, Casey's funding and leadership challenges, and model welfare insights from recent releases. -- https://x.com/TheZvi -- MTS is a live news a...

Sean Cheetham joins MTS to discuss how AI is changing cryptanalysis, the timeline and preparation for post-quantum cryptography, and the importance of building agile cryptographic systems. -- 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 Spot...

Zack Korman joins MTS to discuss monitoring AI agents for misalignment, building effective sandboxes for capable models, and the cybersecurity implications of open weight model releases. -- https://x.com/ZackKorman -- 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.yout...

Samo Burja joins MTS to discuss the US ban on Chinese robots, the global shortage of live players, and his Operation Paperclip Maximizer proposal to bring German and Japanese engineers to America. -- https://x.com/SamoBurja -- 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:/...

Charlie O'Neill joins MTS to discuss the Nvidia open letter on open source AI, Baseten's role as a day-zero launch partner for Kimi K3, and why post-training gets cheaper as open source models start closer to the frontier. He argues that closed and open source labs are converging on the same scaling recipe, with open models like Kimi K3 now approaching frontier capability. -- https://x.com...

Ruby Thelot joins MTS to discuss cyber ethnography, the history and philosophy of taste, and the balkanization of internet culture into distinct digital communities. He also covers machinic taste in an increasingly bot driven internet and why Americans distrust the term AI even as they embrace chatbots for everyday tasks. -- https://x.com/being_on_line -- MTS is a live news and interview show cove...

Samo Burja joins MTS to discuss lunar industrialization and space warfare, resource extraction advantages in low-density regions, and manufacturing trends across India, Mexico, and Bangladesh. -- https://x.com/SamoBurja -- 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...

Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss the Kids Act and tech regulation, open source AI models and competition with China, and the data center backlash. She argues that age verification laws and content moderation mandates threaten internet freedom, that open source models are critical for American competitiveness, and that moral panics around technology harm innovation. -- https://x.com/TaylorLorenz...

Ben Horowitz joins MTS to discuss the open source AI debate, distillation as competitive strategy, and why the AI market is less than 3% penetrated. -- https://x.com/bhorowitz -- 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:...

Joshua Achiam joins MTS to discuss AI cyber capabilities, data poisoning attacks on models, and the strategic implications of AI-enabled cyber operations. He examines how frontier models can discover zero-days, the security challenges of adversarial attacks through data poisoning, and the importance of building robust defenses for critical infrastructure. -- https://x.com/jachiam0 -- MTS is a live...

In this episode of MTS, Steve Coffey joins to discuss the Responses API at OpenAI, how WebSocket integrations improve agent efficiency, and why coding models have made him 10X more productive. Then, Joe Gershenson and Ahmed Ibrahim join to discuss token efficiency in Codex, code mode for reducing tool call latency, and designing harnesses that let models express themselves more fully. -- https://x...

Travis Kalanick joins MTS to discuss Atoms' approach to food robotics, autonomous mining infrastructure, and the shift toward specialized robotics at industrial scale. -- https://x.com/travisk -- 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/@mtsituati...

Ian Banks joins MTS to discuss federal science policy reform, AI-native autonomous laboratories, and the future of scientific apprenticeships. -- https://x.com/banksianr -- 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...