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Figma Co-Founder and CEO Dylan Field discusses the general availability release of Figma's design agent, explaining how AI is lowering the floor for creation while preserving the value of human craft and judgment. He also shares his long-term vision for code as a canvas material and the future of human-AI collaboration. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into softwa...

Anthony Pompliano discusses his new book "How to Live an Extraordinary Life," timeless principles of agency, and how his company Sylvia built specialized fine-tuned AI models that outperform frontier models at 97% lower cost. 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...

Sigil Wen, founder of Conway Research and Thiel Fellow, discusses launching Underdog—a private, local AI running directly on personal devices—and how autonomous agents will transform internet commerce by rendering traditional advertising obsolete. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, bus...

Advisor Bing Gordon and Night Horse Productions President Chloe Gordon discuss game design primitives, emotional alignment, user-generated economies, and how positive-sum gaming frameworks apply to consumer products and AI. 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 cul...

Matt White, Founding Executive Director of the Open Intelligence Foundation and former Linux Foundation CTO, joins MTS to discuss AI policy in Washington, why legislators fundamentally misunderstand open source AI, compute concentration among closed labs, and the push for open public compute infrastructure. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. M...

Hugging Face Chief Science Officer Thomas Wolf discusses NVIDIA's $12.93B acquisition of Hugging Face, the rapid enterprise adoption of open-weights models like Gemma, and the launch of the company's Open Alignment team to tackle AI safety and interpretability. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show co...

Carnegie Endowment Fellow Anton Leicht discusses the alignment consensus at Curve, the national security pivot in AI governance, and the strategic positioning of middle powers like Australia and France. 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. F...

Larridin CEO Russ Fradin breaks down how enterprises measure real AI usage and return on investment[cite: 1]. He discusses why Silicon Valley's AI adoption vastly differs from the rest of America, why most Copilot seats sit idle, and why organizational transformation and HR will prove more critical than agentic workforce hype. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into...

Pace Founder and CEO Jamie Cuffe explains how AI agents are transforming back-office insurance operations, closing the $9 trillion protection gap, and disrupting $400 billion in BPO spend. He breaks down how computer use agents navigate legacy mainframes, streamline commercial underwriting, and reshape the economics of global risk management. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Tur...

Patricia Paskov, Director of Standards at AVERI, discusses the growing need for independent frontier AI auditing, the talent shortage in model evaluation, and pilot double-blind evaluations run with Google DeepMind and Openmind. 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, an...

Paradigm Head of Research Dan Robinson joins to demo Pace, a game modeling the game theory, prisoner's dilemmas, and equilibrium dynamics between competing AI labs pacing the frontier. He breaks down why fog of war drives acceleration, how recursive self-improvement hits real-world bottlenecks, and Paradigm's next economic game on AI labor diffusion. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://...

MongoDB CPO of AI & Engineering Pablo Stern-Plaza reveals the company’s new Atlas Agent Engine and explains why data gravity makes MongoDB the natural memory layer for AI agents. He discusses enterprise security guardrails, running models locally across hybrid environments, and how multi-agent networks rely on shared memory to drive real-world actions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lo...

MongoDB CPO Ben Cefalo breaks down the launch of MongoDB 9.0 and Atlas Infinite, explaining how the platform re-architected compute and storage to handle erratic AI agent workloads. He discusses the reality of enterprise AI adoption, security, and why tracing agent liability is the biggest hurdle to scaling autonomous AI in production. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas...

Carta Chief Strategy Officer Davis Thacker breaks down current private market macro trends, from seed valuation bifurcations and IPO backlogs to the surge in LP secondaries. He reveals Carta’s expansion into private equity and explains how enterprise AI adoption like Claude Desktop and AI agents are redefining software infrastructure and equity management. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lo...

Tennr CEO Trey Holterman breaks down how long-horizon AI agents are quietly removing systemic bottlenecks in healthcare, scaling across 430,000 referring providers, and bypassing outdated EMR infrastructure. He reveals why traditional healthcare adoption lags, how improper incentives drive medical denials, and how AI patient orchestration will reshape specialist access. Check out our sponsor Lovab...

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...