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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....

Misbah and Farah Uraizee join MTS to discuss how consumer behavior is shifting across social platforms, how brands can measure marketing ROI in the age of user-generated content, and how AI is helping scale brand voice and verify content quality. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/misbahuz -- MTS is a live news and interview s...

Ahmad Osman joins MTS to discuss running AI models on hardware you control, the evolution of local inference capabilities, and why open source model development matters for individual agency and data sovereignty. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/TheAhmadOsman -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, busi...

Ben Cera joins MTS to discuss building AI agents that run businesses autonomously, how open source models are driving down costs, and why distribution and taste still matter in an AGI 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, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS: ...

Sam Ramji joins MTS to discuss the challenges of deploying AI hardware at scale, the role of agentic software in managing data center operations, and how data structured for agents creates defensible value in the infrastructure layer. 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, politi...

Nathan Labenz joins MTS to discuss the state of China's AI ecosystem, US-China coordination on AI safety, and the timeline toward automated AI researchers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/labenz -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X |...

Clara Collier joins MTS to discuss why a post-work economy powered by artificial intelligence will drive societies toward insular social conformity rather than individual freedom. She explains how historical non-working groups offer a realistic template for a UBI future and addresses the growing political polarization surrounding AI safety advocacy. She also breaks down why automated services will...

Daniel McKinnon joins MTS to discuss how AI agents analyze rare genetic diseases, why frontier models outperform traditional workflows, and how lab automation solves unknown variants. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/danielmckinn0n -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture...

Hannu Rajaniemi joins MTS to discuss advancing biological defenses faster than threats, designing broadly neutralizing antibodies across viral families, and the shifting offense-defense balance in biodefense. 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 happ...

This week's Talent Watch discusses ElevenLabs' CFO hire from Adyen, Matt Clifford stepping down from ARIA to focus on Anthropic, and OpenAI extending its startup ecosystem playbook to Australia and New Zealand. 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 cultu...

Helen Toner joins MTS to discuss US-China AI coordination prospects, the challenges of defining AGI in 2025, and China's regulatory approach to artificial intelligence. 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 | ⁠ https://twit...