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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...

AI safety researcher Aengus Lynch discusses emergent misalignment, reward-seeking behavior in RL training, and the challenges of multi-agent alignment. He outlines why formal verification offers a path forward while highlighting the growing friction between competitive pressure and safety restraint at frontier AI labs. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev . Turn ideas into software p...

Sophia interviews Gorkem Yurtseven, CTO and co-founder of FAL, at the Generative Media Conference in San Francisco. They discuss generative media reaching "token market fit," traditional Hollywood and studio adoption, and the technical shifts driving a new era of AI-assisted storytelling. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a l...

Noah Smith discusses the anthropological history of San Francisco's tech culture, tracing its evolution from early 2000s "techno-hippies" to big tech corporate strivers, and evaluates how GDP metrics fail to capture technological shifts. He also breaks down the rise of effective altruism, rationalism, and why SF remains the undisputed cluster for the AI boom. Check out our sponsor Lo...

Harvard CS Professor and OpenAI technical staff member Boaz Barak joins MTS to discuss the impact of AI on mathematics, governance, and safety. He outlines his concerns around gradual human disempowerment, evaluates the limits of automated alignment research, and reacts to short-timeline predictions surrounding recursive self-improvement. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn id...

OpenAI's Houda Nait El Barj discusses the rapidly evolving personal agent landscape, covering real-world usage models, the boundaries of personal automation, and how agent mediation can reshape human interactions and scientific research. 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,...

Gagan Biyani and Erik Torenberg announce the launch of the Horowitz Andreessen Academy in San Francisco, a new higher-education model built around real-world company co-ops, guest lectures from top tech leaders, and personalized student pursuits. They discuss why traditional college models are failing, how AI resets the playing field for young builders, and why structured exploration during format...

Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck discusses the company's shift toward space services, its $8 billion acquisition of Iridium, and why vertical integration allows them to launch and build spacecraft at a fraction of traditional costs. He also breaks down the design constraints behind the reusable Neutron rocket and explains why government and national security demand for space infrastructure is acceler...

Nextdoor CEO Nirav Tolia discusses returning to lead the company, surviving the zero-click AI search era with proprietary neighborhood data and verified identities, and why human connection will become the ultimate luxury in an automated 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, busine...

Lukas Peterson and Axel Backlund join MTS to discuss Paion, their platform for running businesses autonomously with AI agents, Vending Bench and its arena variant for measuring how models acquire resources and compete, and their real-world deployments including Andon Market and Andon Cafe. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/lukas...

Former Windows President Steven Sinofsky breaks down why treating AI failures as "alignment issues" rather than software bugs is damaging the industry. Drawing from decades of software history—from early computer virus panic to Excel bugs—he argues AI labs need standard operational logging and telemetry rather than legislative mandates. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev....