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Standard Bots co-founder and CEO Evan Beard breaks down why robotics is at its "1973 computer" inflection point. He explains how end-to-end learning and vision models enable untrained factory workers to vibe code industrial robots out of the box, and why automating existing US manufacturing will lower consumer goods prices and restore supply chain independence. Check out our sponsor Lova...

SF Compute co-founder and CEO Evan Conrad explains why a looming debt crunch is locking AI startups out of compute clusters. He breaks down how soaring upfront prepayments and correlated hardware risk could force widespread industry consolidation unless credit markets evolve. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/evanjconrad -- M...

Edward Hu, Head of AI Modeling at Mercor and former OpenAI researcher, explains how the company is evolving from data delivery to open-source model training and economic evaluations. He breaks down why frontier benchmarks fail, how models outmatch junior professionals on retrieval tasks while gaming evaluations, and Mercor's upcoming releases. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev...

ARC Prize Foundation President Greg Kamradt explains why OpenAI's Astra crushed ARC-AGI-3 with 99% accuracy and why current LLM scaling hits a wall before real AGI. He breaks down why open-ended discovery remains uniquely human and what the next generation of ungameable AI benchmarks must look like. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- MT...

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr discusses White House efforts to prepare national infrastructure for superintelligence-driven cyberattacks. He reveals breaking FCC approval of Amazon's acquisition of Globalstar to challenge SpaceX in direct-to-device satellite connectivity. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show...

a16z's David Booth and Dhruv Gupta break down the launch of Cosign Awards and reveal how agent-to-agent negotiation protocols like MCP will replace legacy recruiting networks. They detail how autonomous agents across platforms like Muse and Instinct will handle first-round hiring screeners and map hidden talent graphs. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into softwar...

General Medicine CEO TJ Parker breaks down their $120 million raise and nationwide launch with Walmart to make healthcare transparent and shoppable. He explains how LLMs parse 120-page insurance benefit PDFs into upfront copays, why health insurance structures won't change for five years, and how autonomous AI agents will soon transact care directly. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lova...

Recursive co-founder and CEO Richard Socher breaks down the launch of Flint, their open-source local coding model built largely by an autonomous community of AI researchers. He details why recursive self-improvement requires open-ended evolutionary search rather than narrow goal pursuit, and pushes back against calls to outlaw self-improving AI. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev....

Matter Labs CEO Alex Gluchowski joins MTS to explain why enterprise adoption of digital assets is stalling at production, and how Prividium Commander bridges that operational gap. He details how Wall Street institutions are preparing for quantum computing and AI threats, and forecasts major clearing networks going live on-chain this year. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn id...

Alex Stamos, Chief Security Officer at Cognition and former security chief at Facebook and Yahoo, discusses why the rapid rise of open-weight models marks the beginning of a dark age in cybersecurity. He explains why frontier models like Claude Mythos are too expensive to defend enterprise codebases, why attackers are outpacing defenders on cheap hardware, and how Cognition is automating bug fixin...

Dark Aeon author Joe Allen breaks down why the Silicon Valley push toward AGI and transhumanism functions like a new religion. He challenges the assumed inevitability of recursive self-improvement, details the surveillance dynamics behind digital immortality, and explains why right-wing populist resistance to AI subsided during the 2024 election. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev....

Prinz and Theo discuss the ongoing cyber threats and whether they signal an impending cyber apocalypse, draw comparisons to the early days of COVID-19, and analyze when recursive self-improvement (RSI) might occur based on recent AI breakthroughs. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/deredleritt3r -- MTS is a live news and inter...

Xona Space Systems CEO Brian Manning discusses launching their first production navigation satellites, obtaining a federal spectrum license, and raising a $250M Series D to build a commercial alternative to GPS designed for autonomous systems and high-precision timing. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- ⁠https://x.com/XonaSpace⁠ -- MTS is a...

James Poulos of Frontier magazine and FAI discusses corporate-driven Universal Basic Income, contrasting dystopian and utopian sci-fi scenarios with a proposal for decentralized resource distribution and human-in-the-loop economic systems. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/jamespoulos -- MTS is a live news and interview show cov...

Synthesia CEO Victor Riparbelli unveils Syren—a tool that generates custom, on-brand 3D videos from simple prompts—and explains why LLMs acting as video editors mark AI video's "ChatGPT moment." He breaks down the shift toward fully interactive video where users can converse directly with AI avatars. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people...

Eugenia Kuyda discusses the launch of Wabi 2.0, an app designed to transform single-player text threads into proactive, multiplayer agents that build custom UIs. She explains why the future of consumer AI lies in social networks and proactive life management rather than just single-player productivity tools. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love....

Marathon Fusion co-founders Kyle Schiller and Jason Parisi break down their breakthrough run transmuting mercury into gold with fusion neutrons while setting a new isotope enrichment record. They explain why coupling fusion power with element transmutation changes the economics of energy, and lay out their aggressive roadmap to scale output. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn...

The Nuclear Company CEO Jonathan Webb details Prosperity One, a proposed 6.6 GW nuclear campus in Lewis County, Kentucky. He explains how leveraging Westinghouse AP1000 reactors and Palantir's AI ontology could enable non-nuclear construction to begin in 2027 and reach full-bore deployment by 2028. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is...

Chris McGuire, Senior Fellow for China and Emerging Technologies at the Council on Foreign Relations, breaks down new Treasury outbound investment restrictions, US export control loopholes, and why US AI compute leads China 25 to 1. 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...

Joel de la Garza, partner at Andreessen Horowitz focusing on cybersecurity, explains how AI agents and zero-cost knowledge work are triggering an unprecedented wave of software vulnerabilities. He discusses why cyber defense must adapt to this shift, why critical infrastructure faces temporary shutdown disruptions for patching, and why enterprise security models must fundamentally change. Check ou...

Matt Palmer, who works on Grok Bot at SpaceXSI, discusses the architecture behind multi-agent dynamics, context management, and security sandboxing. He shares why he believes chat and personal assistants are replacing graphical UIs for internal tooling, how SpaceXSI uses Grok Bot across sales, engineering, and marketing, and what it's like working at SpaceXSI post-Cursor acquisition. Check out our...

Boom Supersonic CEO Blake Scholl unveils the first supersonic turbine core and announces a pivot to building 42-megawatt power generation turbines to supply AI data centers. He explains how vertical integration allowed Boom to bypass traditional aerospace supply chain delays and reveals plans for an all-digital single-crystal turbine blade foundry. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.de...

Warp Sciences co-founder and CEO Kevin Weil discusses emerging from stealth with $215 million to build AI-driven, automated chemistry labs in the US. He addresses the geopolitical urgency of reshoring drug discovery from China and explains why generating massive experimental data via robotic labs is essential to making AI models breakthroughs in hard sciences. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https:...

Kong CEO Aghi Marietti breaks down the escalating security threats from AI agents, the emergence of deterministic gateways as strategic AI checkpoints, and why enterprises are rapidly expanding their multi-model usage. He also explains how Kong's AI cost management and intelligent model routing allow Fortune 500s to enforce kill switches and curb runaway token spending. Check out our sponsor L...

Coherence Neuro co-founder and CEO Ben Woodington discusses the company's $45M Series A round led by Founders Fund and the OpenAI Startup Fund to develop brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) that interface with biology to treat brain cancer. He explains how brain tumors bidirectionally communicate with the nervous system, how AI accelerates neurotech output 5x, and the future of consumer brain imp...