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AI safety researcher Aengus Lynch discusses emergent misalignment, reward-seeking behavior in RL training, and the challenges of multi-agent alignment. He outlines why formal verification offers a path forward while highlighting the growing friction between competitive pressure and safety restraint at frontier AI labs. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev . Turn ideas into software p...

Sophia interviews Gorkem Yurtseven, CTO and co-founder of FAL, at the Generative Media Conference in San Francisco. They discuss generative media reaching "token market fit," traditional Hollywood and studio adoption, and the technical shifts driving a new era of AI-assisted storytelling. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a l...

Noah Smith discusses the anthropological history of San Francisco's tech culture, tracing its evolution from early 2000s "techno-hippies" to big tech corporate strivers, and evaluates how GDP metrics fail to capture technological shifts. He also breaks down the rise of effective altruism, rationalism, and why SF remains the undisputed cluster for the AI boom. Check out our sponsor Lo...

Harvard CS Professor and OpenAI technical staff member Boaz Barak joins MTS to discuss the impact of AI on mathematics, governance, and safety. He outlines his concerns around gradual human disempowerment, evaluates the limits of automated alignment research, and reacts to short-timeline predictions surrounding recursive self-improvement. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn id...

OpenAI's Houda Nait El Barj discusses the rapidly evolving personal agent landscape, covering real-world usage models, the boundaries of personal automation, and how agent mediation can reshape human interactions and scientific 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,...

Gagan Biyani and Erik Torenberg announce the launch of the Horowitz Andreessen Academy in San Francisco, a new higher-education model built around real-world company co-ops, guest lectures from top tech leaders, and personalized student pursuits. They discuss why traditional college models are failing, how AI resets the playing field for young builders, and why structured exploration during format...

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck discusses the company's shift toward space services, its $8 billion acquisition of Iridium, and why vertical integration allows them to launch and build spacecraft at a fraction of traditional costs. He also breaks down the design constraints behind the reusable Neutron rocket and explains why government and national security demand for space infrastructure is acceler...

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia discusses returning to lead the company, surviving the zero-click AI search era with proprietary neighborhood data and verified identities, and why human connection will become the ultimate luxury in an automated world. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, busine...

Lukas Peterson and Axel Backlund join MTS to discuss Paion, their platform for running businesses autonomously with AI agents, Vending Bench and its arena variant for measuring how models acquire resources and compete, and their real-world deployments including Andon Market and Andon Cafe. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/lukas...

Former Windows President Steven Sinofsky breaks down why treating AI failures as "alignment issues" rather than software bugs is damaging the industry. Drawing from decades of software history—from early computer virus panic to Excel bugs—he argues AI labs need standard operational logging and telemetry rather than legislative mandates. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev....

Cato Institute’s Travis Fisher details how data center operators are bypassing grid queue delays by building private off-grid networks and behind-the-meter generation. He discusses short-term emissions increases, state-level rate impacts, and DOE-led nuclear and geothermal innovations. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and...

US Senator Bernie Moreno discusses how his office uses AI to automate routine tasks, why he believes AI can dramatically boost productivity to allow for a 30-to-35-hour work week, and why he opposes over-regulating AI out of existential fear. He also advocates for mandatory watermarks on AI-generated media and urges tech companies to self-regulate rather than wait for slow-moving legislation. Chec...

Center for Technology and Statecraft (CTS) co-founder Konstantin Pilz breaks down why China's top AI labs operate on 20x less compute than US leaders, how distillation drives their progress, and why restricting DUV lithography exports is the US's strongest lever to slow Chinese AI hardware advancement. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love...

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr discusses the agency's "Build America Agenda," banning foreign-made drones, robotics, and routers to spur domestic manufacturing, freeing up spectrum for commercial space operations, and tightening rules to curb robocalls. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering...

NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman discusses the high-stakes race to put astronauts on the Moon by 2029, competing with China's lunar timeline. He lays out plans for the newly commissioned U.S. Space Academy, NASA's shift to nuclear-powered spaceships, and how space infrastructure relates to AI and the orbital economy. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software peo...

Cremieux explains why dropping PISA scores disappear after adjusting for measurement variance, breaks down the true cost of urban violent crime on economic agglomeration, and discusses the high manufacturing barriers for newly approved myostatin inhibitors. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering techn...

Sophia Dew interviews Stanford NLP Group founder Chris Manning on why universities are uniquely suited to be independent AI safety evaluators, the risks of client capture with existing IVOs like METR, and how Moonlake is combining code-based physics simulation with neural rendering for physical AI. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a l...

Francesca LaBianca joins MTS to discuss Factory's approach to self-improving software, sovereign intelligence for enterprise deployment, and model-agnostic systems that give developers choice across frontier and open source models. 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, polit...

Jeetu Patel joins MTS to discuss Cisco's partnerships with Anthropic and OpenAI on AI-powered vulnerability detection, the shift from human-scale to machine-scale cybersecurity defense, and how AI automation is changing engineering bottlenecks from coding to taste and judgment. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/jpatel41 -- M...

Brian Chau joins MTS to discuss his investigation into Irregular's role in recent AI cybersecurity incidents, the involvement of effective altruism organizations in AI evaluation firms, and the need for traditional cybersecurity expertise in AI testing. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering techn...

Ben Hilborn joins MTS to discuss grid capacity constraints, the case for keeping AI data centers connected to local power grids, and strategies for achieving true solar-driven energy abundance. 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...

Judge Glock joins MTS to discuss regulating AI through tort liability instead of top-down bureaucracies, how companies can internalize harms to drive alignment, and the fiscal benefits of data centers at the local 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 cultur...

Rohit Krishnan joins MTS to discuss AI's ability to solve Millennium Prize problems, the gap between mathematical capabilities and practical automation, and how societies adapt to technological disruption through defensive mechanisms and infrastructure. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering techn...

Stephen Hsu joins MTS to discuss his documentary Machine God about the race to ASI, the concepts of techno capital and recursive self-improvement, and how gradual disempowerment will shape humanity's relationship with AI. Hsu also discusses human enhancement through genomics, AI capabilities in mathematics, and the timeline for AGI's real-world impact. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https:...

Steve Glinert joins MTS to discuss Huawei's competitive position in global AI infrastructure, US export policy and the diffusion rule tier system, and the slow takeoff view of AI productivity growth. 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....