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Jonas Du, co-organizer of Data After Dark and writer at Pirate Wires, breaks down the origin of Washington DC's "pro data center party" and the rising political backlash against AI infrastructure. He discusses activist protests, the debate over data center resource usage, and how tech companies need proactive community outreach to win the public relations war. Check out our sponsor L...

Dragonfly General Partner Rob Hadick details why personal AI agents like Instinct lack long-term retention and defensibility, how agentic finance will reshape subscription business models, and why financial platforms like banks and Robinhood will capture agentic value. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show co...

Jeeves CEO Dileep Thazhmon breaks down how the company hit $1.5 billion in annualized stablecoin TPV in nine months, the real-world mechanics of B2B cross-border payments, and how AI agentic microtransactions will reshape global financial rails. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, busin...

New York Times AI Projects Editor Dylan Freedman breaks down how investigative journalists built an agentic search engine over 3 million pages of released documents to break dozen-plus stories on the Jeffrey Epstein files. He discusses his hands-on reporting with LLM transcripts, security risks around AI agent swarms, and how newsrooms balance human expertise with generative tools. Check out our s...

MongoDB CTO Jim Scharf breaks down how AI agent swarms are driving transaction scale to unprecedented levels, shifting the security race against nation-state adversaries, and transforming JSON and document databases into the core memory and data engine for modern agentic systems. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interv...

IFP's Reed Schwartz breaks down how Japan and Hong Kong leverage land value capture to fund transit infrastructure, why American mass transit faces severe fiscal cliffs post-COVID, and how Georgist tax policy influenced early American libertarianism. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technolo...

Forethought co-founder Will MacAskill discusses the risks of superintelligence, preventing value lock-in and military power grabs, and why effective altruism focuses on long-term AI safety. 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...

UT Austin Fellow Kevin Frazier discusses the need for AI constitutionalism, model specs, and improved lab transparency to govern AI systems. The conversation explores the challenges of university bureaucracy in AGI policy education, third-party auditing, and recent political moves like President Trump's White House Accord on Superintelligence. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev...

Vals AI CEO Rayan Krishnan discusses his company's new RSI Index benchmark, predicting Anthropic could reach full recursive self-improvement by summer 2027. The conversation covers the mechanics of automating AI research, Washington DC's changing regulatory landscape, and how AI automation will diffuse throughout the broader economy. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn...

Arena Co-Founder and CEO Anastasios Angelopoulos breaks down Gemini 4 Argon's performance across text, expert, agent, and coding leaderboards. He discusses why cost-per-task matters more than cost-per-token, style controls for models like Opus 5.5, and benchmarking real-world economic output. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x...

Andrew Yang re-engages with Jubilee debate hosts to discuss tangible policy solutions for an AI-driven economy. He lays out mechanisms for UBI, taxing compute layer tokens, creating human-centered local currencies, and leveraging the Forward Party to reform government incentives. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interv...

Elise AI CEO Minna Song discusses raising $350M at a $4B valuation, expanding from housing into healthcare, and using agentic AI to address cost structures in essential industries. 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 | ⁠ http...

Blitzy Field CTO Joe Byrne breaks down how autonomous AI development platform Blitzy refactors legacy monoliths using thousands of agents and infinite-context knowledge graphs. He discusses operating in ingest-only container environments to prevent rogue agent escapes, long-running 30-day autonomous tasks, and the shift away from code readability. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev...

MongoDB Interim CEO Dev Ittycheria breaks down why the enterprise AI race is shifting from model benchmarks to data infrastructure, and how native document databases fit into the modern enterprise stack. He outlines industry-wide shifts toward agentic workloads, real-time context requirements, and why multi-cloud flexibility is non-negotiable for enterprise deployments. Check out our sponsor Lovab...

Bryan Cantrill, CTO and co-founder of Oxide Computer Company, breaks down why cloud computing economics collapse at scale and why the enterprise needs purpose-built rack-scale hardware. He also takes aim at AI extinction fears, explaining why doomsday predictions stem from a lack of domain specificity and industrial reality. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into softw...

ElevenLabs Chief Revenue Officer Ashley Kramer discusses the launch of Eleven V4, their architecture shift, expanding to 90+ languages, and their founding partnership with OpenAI's new Marketplace. She also breaks down how Eleven Agents powers enterprise workflows—like Klarna and Seven Rooms—and reflects on the company's new $300M employee tender at a $22B valuation. Check out our sponsor...

METR technical staff member Reilly Haskins discusses their new research note on live, per-action monitoring systems designed to catch hazardous actions during AI evaluations. He outlines the technical limits of frontier model monitoring, how fast-advancing capabilities degrade transparency, and how organizations can enforce automated AI safeguards. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.de...

BrowserBase growth engineer Kyle Jeong breaks down how computer use agents evolved from slow, inaccurate coordinate clicking to executing code and leveraging accessibility tree snapshots. He also explores the emerging infrastructure for agent web access, including WebMCP, Cloudflare’s Web Bot Auth protocol, and agent verification. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into...

Oxford researcher Toby Ord breaks down the power-law mathematics of agent swarms, how parallel AI coordination alters recursive self-improvement timelines, and why transformative AI could arrive before 2030. 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 happe...

Chargebee Senior Director of Product Management Vinay Seshadri introduces OpenAUDR (Agent Usage Detail Record), an open data standard modeled after telecom Call Detail Records to accurately track, attribute, and invoice multi-layered AI agent run costs across tools, harnesses, and router models. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live...

Vivodyne co-founder and CEO Andrei Georgescu discusses how the company's automated, data-center-scale human tissue labs enable drug discovery and safety testing without animals or people. He outlines their 92–94% predictive accuracy, their reinforcement learning framework for biology, and how frontier labs like Anthropic are approaching wet-lab integration. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https...

Eddy Lazzarin, General Partner at a16z Crypto, discusses the changing AI safety discourse, arguing that market mechanisms and cybersecurity are better tools for risk than central coordination. He outlines why capabilities progress will improve mechanical interpretability, why local models enhance security, and why the "pause" movement lacks practical legs. Check out our sponsor Lovable:...

Theorem co-founders Jason Gross and Rajashri Agarwal discuss how formal verification can make AI-generated code safer and enable inescapable agent sandboxes. They break down why traditional proof assistants fail to scale and reveal their strategy to hide formal verification under standard developer workflows. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love....

a16z partners David Booth and Katie Goldstein launch Cosign, the AI-powered professional network positioned as "the LinkedIn killer". They break down how public vouches, curated lists, and automated context capture replace self-promotional resumes with a true reputation layer for tech. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com...

Curtis Yarvin joins the show to discuss Urbit Lodges, a cryptographically secure, strongly anonymous messaging platform designed to protect high-stakes "whisper networks" and private conversations from doxxing and style-fingerprinting. He also breaks down why he believes AI doom theories are fundamentally flawed, arguing that advancing AI systems function as increasingly predictable tool...