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Kong CEO Augie Marietti shares enterprise AI gateway data showing that Fortune 500 companies still spend overwhelmingly on frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic rather than open-weight models. He explains why true end-to-end enterprise agents are still five years away due to API connectivity bottlenecks, and predicts that companies will increasingly run dozens of internal models like mini neo-la...

Canva Head of AI Research Stefano Corazza discusses how generative AI is reshaping creativity, the human-machine interface, and content production. He explains how Canva trains models like Craft to learn design taste, plan layouts before rendering pixels, and turn real-time user edits across 250 million monthly users into reinforcement learning signals, while predicting a 100x drop in video genera...

Nate Soares, president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) and co-author of If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, joins MTS to discuss MIRI’s pivot from technical alignment to public advocacy and their new theater ad campaign, Do Not Accept. He argues that AI labs are building superhuman systems they cannot control, warns that current reactive safety fixes will fail past a critical...

Melvin Johnson, VP of research leading Gemini post-training at Google DeepMind, joins MTS to unpack the rapid rollout of the Gemini 4 model family—Argon, Carbon, and today’s workhorse release, Hydrogen. He breaks down how Hydrogen outperforms flagship models on key benchmarks, why Google’s vertical integration with TPUs and massive distribution keeps frontier labs ahead of open-weight models, and...

Vercel AI Product Lead Harpreet Arora shares enterprise adoption trends from Vercel’s AI Gateway, revealing how teams are shifting toward Anthropic models, decision models, and voice workflows. He also discusses the slowdown in open-weight model quality improvements relative to frontier labs, NVIDIA’s role in the open-source ecosystem, and predicts video models will become reliable for repeatable...

Horizon3 co-founder and CEO Snehal Antani discusses the launch of the company’s Adversarial Intelligence Frontier Lab and how AI agents are changing offensive and defensive cybersecurity. He explains why frontier AI models fail against basic cyber deception, why private behind-the-firewall training data is the real moat over compute, and why attackers rely on machine-speed execution of basic flaws...

Google DeepMind research engineer Ege Erdil explains why he is bearish on $1T+ AI lab valuations, comparing frontier labs to low-margin, high-CapEx airlines rather than traditional software monopolies. He also challenges short-timeline forecasts like the AI 2027 intelligence explosion thesis, arguing that AI progress remains bottlenecked by compute and data rather than self-accelerating software r...

Runway co-founder and CEO Anastasis Germanidis explains why the video generation lab open-sourced Praxis-1, its new world action model topping NVIDIA’s RoboLab 120 benchmark. He breaks down the race with China on physical AI, why predicting pixels trains real-world robot control, and his forecast for robot deployments moving into production by next year. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lova...

Former White House AI advisor Ben Buchanan details the geopolitical battle for AI dominance, how chip export controls are starving China of frontier compute, and what happens if the US faces superhuman AI by 2028. He explains the Biden administration’s behind-the-scenes strategy to keep the frontier lead and why computing power remains the ultimate bottleneck. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https:...

ElevenLabs Field CTO Alex Holt breaks down their major Eleven Eleven Summit launches, including the new Interaction Engine, agent orchestration, and the NVIDIA Nemotron partnership. He explains why voice delivery is the hardest bottleneck in enterprise AI and forecasts that voice agents will replace traditional IVR by the end of next year. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn i...

ElevenLabs Chief Revenue Officer Ashley Kramer joins MTS at the ElevenLabs Summit to break down how voice agents are moving from enterprise pilots into full production. She shares real-world deployments across healthcare, telecommunications, and hospitality, including Clover Health’s Medicare rollout, KPN’s Dutch verification system, and Deutsche Telekom’s real-time network translation layer. Chec...

Planetary VC investor Ramez Naam pushes back on runaway recursive self-improvement models and short AGI timelines, arguing that empirical lab data shows steep diminishing returns rather than exponential feedback loops. He compares theoretical benchmarks to real-world task horizons at OpenAI and Anthropic, explaining why fully autonomous AI researchers remain constrained by data, taste, and verific...

Alberto Arrighi and Max Poff from Stack AI break down what it actually takes to push enterprise AI agents into production at scale. They discuss moving beyond simple chat demos, securing air-gapped deployments for defense contractors, and their timeline for embodied intelligence. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interv...

Factory’s Varin Nair joins Sophia Dew to explain how open-weight models and agent harnesses like Artex and HexStrike have automated cyberattacks at nation-state scale. He outlines Factory’s pivot into offensive security with War Games and breaks down why defensive engineering must shift into a deterministic, automated triage loop. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into...

Mercor co-founder and co-CEO Brendan Foody discusses the company’s $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation and why post-training evaluations have become the primary bottleneck for frontier AI development. He outlines why reinforcement learning quickly saturates benchmarks, explains why he is “AGI long, but ASI short,” and breaks down why models have stalled at becoming virtual coworkers....

Ryan Fedasiuk of the Foundation for American Innovation joins MTS to discuss why Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faces calls to resign over an alleged covert relationship with a suspected Chinese intelligence asset. They break down Nvidia’s alleged efforts to thwart a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed, corporate governance risks at a $4 trillion company, and legislative battles over trackin...

BlueDot Impact co-founder and CEO Dewi Erwan breaks down the bottleneck in AI safety talent, the prospect of superintelligence landing within two years, and why the field desperately needs founders and government advocates rather than more machine learning researchers. He outlines BlueDot’s model of issuing $50,000 grants and opening a dedicated campus to accelerate career pivots into existential...

Nominal co-founder and CEO Cameron McCord joins MTS to discuss raising $240 million at a $3 billion valuation to bring frontier AI agents to hardware engineering. He explains why hardware validation is becoming the primary bottleneck for models like GPT-6 Astra, how the industrial sector lags in AI diffusion, and how agentic workflows are reshaping aerospace and defense supply chains. Check out ou...

Carnegie Mellon professor and ClickHouse VP of Database Research Andy Pavlo breaks down why AI agents demand an entirely new database layer. He covers how nonstop query volumes and vibe coding break legacy systems, ClickHouse’s expansion into managed Postgres with the Xata acquisition, and his predictions for agent-written databases. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas i...

Calif founder and offensive security researcher Thai Duong discusses how frontier AI models are shrinking exploit development timelines from months to weeks, why AI labs and neo clouds represent the most vulnerable infrastructure, and the breakdown of traditional cyber defense against concurrent agent swarms. -- https://x.com/XorNinja -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, b...

METR Chief of Staff Parv Mahajan breaks down their new report assessing AI R&D acceleration inside Anthropic. He discusses finding a sustained 2x acceleration since late 2025, why public models hide this kink, the absence of near-term training compute bottlenecks, and why Anthropic likely crossed its own acceleration warning threshold. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn i...

Google DeepMind Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas breaks down why hockey-stick AI model capabilities will not trigger explosive double-digit GDP growth. He explains how competitive markets drive automated output prices down, why firms operate as mosaic superintelligence, and how minimal AGI shifts labor into new high-wage markets. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas in...

Raindrop co-founder and CTO Ben Hylak explains why smarter models make AI agent failures more catastrophic, from healthcare liabilities to high-stakes alignment breakdowns. He breaks down how recursive self-improvement requires simulating past production traces to safely test model switches and prevent silent failures. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software pe...

Wayve simulation and validation head Brandon Basso joins MTS to explain why end-to-end AI models are replacing modular self-driving checker stacks. He unpacks how physical AI learns safety intrinsically across global edge cases and predicts when eyes-off autonomous systems will reshape daily transit. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a...

Dan Lee, co-founder and CEO of Nooks, explains how their $500M non-dilutive capital facility from General Catalyst powers specialized AI agents to automate the revenue lifecycle. He outlines why sales is a persuasion problem rather than pure reasoning, details training open-weight models against Claude and ChatGPT, and debuts Node, an AI assistant for sales teams. Check out our sponsor Lovable: ht...