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Karina Nguyen joins MTS to discuss why post-training is an art rather than a science, how reward hacking is reshaping benchmark design at frontier labs, and why AI writing still sounds robotic to most readers. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/...

Cole Lee joins MTS to discuss how AI has raised the premium on creativity and taste, why the rise of techfluencers is reshaping brand marketing, and what parts of the creative process AI can never replace. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@mts...

Tony Zhao joins MTS to discuss achieving high reliability in unseen homes with Sunday's Act Two preview, scaling community-driven data collection through memory developers, and running full policy inference directly on device. -- https://x.com/tonyzzhao -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitte...

Zvi Mowshowitz joins MTS to discuss the Pacing the Frontier open letter, the OpenAI Hugging Face incident and its alignment implications, and when AI R&D automation should trigger concern. He also covers government technical capacity for AI governance, Casey's funding and leadership challenges, and model welfare insights from recent releases. -- https://x.com/TheZvi -- MTS is a live news a...

Sean Cheetham joins MTS to discuss how AI is changing cryptanalysis, the timeline and preparation for post-quantum cryptography, and the importance of building agile cryptographic systems. -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spot...

Zack Korman joins MTS to discuss monitoring AI agents for misalignment, building effective sandboxes for capable models, and the cybersecurity implications of open weight model releases. -- https://x.com/ZackKorman -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www.yout...

Samo Burja joins MTS to discuss the US ban on Chinese robots, the global shortage of live players, and his Operation Paperclip Maximizer proposal to bring German and Japanese engineers to America. -- https://x.com/SamoBurja -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https:/...

Charlie O'Neill joins MTS to discuss the Nvidia open letter on open source AI, Baseten's role as a day-zero launch partner for Kimi K3, and why post-training gets cheaper as open source models start closer to the frontier. He argues that closed and open source labs are converging on the same scaling recipe, with open models like Kimi K3 now approaching frontier capability. -- https://x.com...

Ruby Thelot joins MTS to discuss cyber ethnography, the history and philosophy of taste, and the balkanization of internet culture into distinct digital communities. He also covers machinic taste in an increasingly bot driven internet and why Americans distrust the term AI even as they embrace chatbots for everyday tasks. -- https://x.com/being_on_line -- MTS is a live news and interview show cove...

Samo Burja joins MTS to discuss lunar industrialization and space warfare, resource extraction advantages in low-density regions, and manufacturing trends across India, Mexico, and Bangladesh. -- https://x.com/SamoBurja -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www...

Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss the Kids Act and tech regulation, open source AI models and competition with China, and the data center backlash. She argues that age verification laws and content moderation mandates threaten internet freedom, that open source models are critical for American competitiveness, and that moral panics around technology harm innovation. -- https://x.com/TaylorLorenz...

Ben Horowitz joins MTS to discuss the open source AI debate, distillation as competitive strategy, and why the AI market is less than 3% penetrated. -- https://x.com/bhorowitz -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https:...

Joshua Achiam joins MTS to discuss AI cyber capabilities, data poisoning attacks on models, and the strategic implications of AI-enabled cyber operations. He examines how frontier models can discover zero-days, the security challenges of adversarial attacks through data poisoning, and the importance of building robust defenses for critical infrastructure. -- https://x.com/jachiam0 -- MTS is a live...

In this episode of MTS, Steve Coffey joins to discuss the Responses API at OpenAI, how WebSocket integrations improve agent efficiency, and why coding models have made him 10X more productive. Then, Joe Gershenson and Ahmed Ibrahim join to discuss token efficiency in Codex, code mode for reducing tool call latency, and designing harnesses that let models express themselves more fully. -- https://x...

Travis Kalanick joins MTS to discuss Atoms' approach to food robotics, autonomous mining infrastructure, and the shift toward specialized robotics at industrial scale. -- https://x.com/travisk -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituati...

Ian Banks joins MTS to discuss federal science policy reform, AI-native autonomous laboratories, and the future of scientific apprenticeships. -- https://x.com/banksianr -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/@mtsituation⁠ Spotify | ⁠https://open...

Nathan Leamer joins MTS to discuss AI's impact on employment, the connection between data centers and reindustrialization, and emerging frameworks for national AI policy. -- https://x.com/NathanLeamerDC -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ YouTube | ⁠ https://www.youtube.com/...

Qasar Younis and Peter Ludwig join MTS to discuss Dana, their new agentic platform for building physical AI applications at scale. They explain how physical AI differs from digital AI, why safety critical systems require fundamentally different approaches, and how they're working to bring intelligence to a billion machines across automotive, mining, agriculture, and defense. -- https://x.com/q...

Aengus Lynch joins MTS to discuss the mechanics of agentic misalignment, the challenges of evaluating AI loss of control, and how formal verification can prevent unsafe model behavior. He shares insights from recent safety evaluations and explains why internal model reasoning poses new oversight risks. -- https://x.com/aengus_lynch1 -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, bus...

Sriram Krishnan joins MTS to discuss the impact of Chinese open source models, pricing pressures on frontier AI labs, and the legalities of model distillation. He shares his perspective on AI cybersecurity risks and how market capitalism supports the entire hardware and software stack. -- https://x.com/sriramk -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and cu...

Chris Painter joins MTS to discuss AI 2040, the difference between AGI and ASI, and how recursive self-improvement could reshape AI progress. He explains monitoring systems for AI agents, the role of compute governance in international agreements, and the challenges of total research transparency. -- https://x.com/ChrisPainterYup -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, busine...

Aghi Marietti joins MTS to discuss the reverse information paradox, AI governance at the traffic layer, and token cost control. He explains how managing enterprise token paths and API infrastructure prevents companies from inadvertently giving away their intellectual property. He also shares his predictions regarding Meta's entry into the AI data center and cloud computing market. -- https://x...

Jonathan Slotkin joins MTS to discuss the psychological difference between being safe and feeling safe in autonomous vehicles, the necessity of a federally mandated safety framework for machine intelligence, and how his firsthand experiences as a neurosurgeon shape his advocacy for radical industry transparency. -- https://x.com/slotkinjr -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technolog...

Shanu Matthew joins MTS to discuss data center economics, electricity market constraints, and infrastructure bottlenecks for AI. He explains why data centers have not historically driven electricity rate increases, the operational complexity of behind-the-meter power generation, and the permitting challenges facing hyperscalers building AI compute capacity. -- https://x.com/ShanuMathew93 -- MTS is...

Josh Zoffer joins MTS to discuss the strategic importance of domestic data center development, the history of offshoring critical mineral supply chains to China, and the policy tools needed to support American manufacturing. -- https://x.com/joshzoff -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/M...