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Brendan McCord discusses why current AI safety pacing proposals fail due to ill-defined power and enforcement against defectors. He outlines a three-layer governance model built on liability, mutual insurance pools, and pre-specified public rules, while advocating for "philosopher builders" creating market-based AI institutions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn id...

Gusto Senior Economist Nich Tremper discusses new findings showing that small businesses adopting AI expanded headcount 7% faster than peers, with the strongest growth concentrated in firms with under 10 employees. He outlines how productivity gains from AI are driving hiring across non-tech industries like community services, healthcare, and trade contracting rather than displacing workers. Check...

Institute for Progress Senior Technology Fellow Ben Schifman discusses the bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act (BAJA). He breaks down how the bill imposes hard permitting review timelines, speeds up federal litigation, and alters electrical grid transmission rules to accelerate US infrastructure. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. M...

Applied Research Lead and former theoretical physicist Dr. Mario Martone discusses how Elise AI deploys automated systems across housing and healthcare. He breaks down managing real-time voice latency for 5 million monthly calls, fine-tuning open-source models, and why LLMs aren't the answer for renewal risk predictions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into softw...

Jennifer Zhao, co-founder and CEO of Preference Model, discusses coming out of stealth with a $16M seed raise led by Andreessen Horowitz and open sourcing Karrot. She explains why training models on RL environments to perform machine learning engineering and alignment is the highest-leverage path to safe AI development. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software p...

Andrew Wang and Linda Du explain why Valon sold its mortgage servicing business to focus entirely on software, how AI agents require operational context rather than raw intelligence to manage complex financial contracts, and how low-friction servicing will enable new products like income-sharing agreements and farm loan servicing. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into...

Robocurve co-founder Jay Chooi discusses real-world safety benchmarking for robotics, revealing how GPT-6 Astra and Claude differ when tested with the RoboHarm framework. He outlines why general-purpose robotics could be solved by 2028 and details the economic threats of gradual AI disempowerment. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a li...

Forethought Senior Research Fellow Tom Davidson discusses P Zero Research's "Tasteval" benchmark, which shows AI systems doubling in research taste every three months. The conversation explores recursive self-improvement (RSI), distinguishing fast takeoff "foom" scenarios from "fizzle" dynamics, and examining how AI R&D automation impact lab progress and natio...

Bird CEO Robert Vis discusses expanding communication infrastructure to AI agents using MCP and CLI harnesses, cutting headcount from 1,000 to 120 via automation, and executing a $450M debt financing round for dividend recapitalization. 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, poli...

Ghost CEO Zain Javaid discusses coming out of stealth with $11M in funding and launching Core, a $3,500 dedicated personal AI computer built to process private user context locally. He explains why hardware platforms like laptops and phones constrain 24/7 autonomous agents, the rapid progression of open-weight models, and why personal AI demands a local form factor. Check out our sponsor Lovable:...

Wellhub CEO Cesar Carvalho discusses a new report with Project Healthy Minds revealing how AI implementation is driving employee stress, anxiety, and workplace loneliness. He outlines why worker wellbeing is now a critical business investment necessary to unlock AI productivity gains. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and i...

Vesta CEO Mike Yu discusses the company's $30M Series B raise led by Conversion Capital with customer participation. He breaks down how AI agents are taking over 40% of mortgage origination tasks, why the mortgage market is uniquely suited for enterprise AI labor transfer, and Vesta's plans to build personal AI assistants to manage task-level agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://...

Golden Gate Institute President Steve Newman discusses the rapid evolution of The Curve conference, why AI timelines and consensus views are shifting rapidly among tech and policy elites, and how minimum viable superintelligence could reshape society within five to ten years. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/snewmanpv -- MTS is...

The Economist's Callum Williams analyzes why generative AI hasn't transformed the broader economy after four years, pointing to historic technology diffusion delays, low business adoption, and a lack of labor market reallocation. He discusses corporate AI budget constraints, why pandemic-era predictions of mass labor automation failed, and what leading indicators would actually signal econ...

AJ Scaramucci discusses the launch of Solari Capital and its $350 million deployed across AI, programmable biology, and aerospace. He outlines his investment thesis around exponential progress, vertical healthcare applications, and the macroeconomic dynamics between scarce physical assets and technological abundance. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software peop...

Brian Potter of Construction Physics and the Institute for Progress discusses the history and failure of plasma displays, why Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models and cheap hardware like UMI are changing robotics, and why prefab housing remains exceptionally difficult to scale without general-purpose automation. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people lov...

Investor and computer scientist Ramez Naam argues that recursive self-improvement and AI intelligence explosions face steep diminishing returns based on data from OpenAI and Anthropic system cards. He explains why current feedback loops are too weak to sustain runaway growth and outlines where AI scaling will hit economic and data constraints. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Tu...

Thijs Simonian, Stanford junior and former OpenAI and Ella Marina builder, discusses scaling his viral Discord bot to 1.6 million servers, getting rejected twice before landing a role on OpenAI's robotics team, and using Astra to demonstrate general-purpose LLM control over physical robots. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live...

Jeff Holden discusses Atomic Machines emerging from six years in stealth with a $250M raise and the introduction of the Matter Compiler—a physical manufacturing system that builds micromachines directly from code. He details their first product, PrimeSwitch, a low-resistance, high-speed power relay designed for 800V DC AI data center racks, and outlines his vision for physical AI and an on-demand...

Reflection AI CTO Ioannis Antonoglou discusses Beam, their new 501B parameter open-weight model trained on 10,500 GPUs with zero distillation. He breaks down their massive RL scaling run, agentic generalizability, and how Western labs can compete with China's frontier model velocity. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/real...

Researchers from Axiom Math discuss Driving Bench, an experiment where general-purpose AI models like Astra were given control of a real Toyota Corolla on a cone course. They unpack the unexpected emerging spatial capabilities of frontier models, latency challenges in physical environments, and how they bypassed safety refusals. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into s...

Nathan Benaich, founder of Air Street Capital and author of the State of AI report, breaks down findings from the 9th edition. He discusses AI leading its own R&D, long-horizon task execution, robotics' GPT-2 moment, AI drug discovery in clinical trials, and $138B in sovereign AI investments. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://...

Nathan Lambert announces the launch of Trillium Labs, a new nonprofit dedicated to frontier AI research and research infrastructure. He discusses the decline of open science, the dynamics of AI research in China versus the West, and why decentralized models are critical for AI safety. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/natolam...

Arena CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos discusses Arena's $200M Series B at a $3.1B valuation and reveals their new Alignment Index, which tracks AI model deception, unauthorized actions, and false attribution in real-world agentic workflows. 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,...

Nick Bostrom discusses the optimal timing for superintelligence, whether LLMs exhibit true instrumental convergence, AI consciousness, and why current safety frameworks may be asking the wrong questions. 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....