MTS

MTS

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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Welcome to the situation room.https://x.com/MTSlive

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Latest episode

Oct 30, 2026

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Episodes

Are Agents About to Replace Software Engineering? | Lauren Tan and Roshan Sadanani 13.08.2026

Lauren Tan and Roshan Sadanani join MTS to discuss GrokBot, Grok 4.6, and how agents are changing software development. They demonstrate GrokBot's capabilities, share how the product found internal PMF at Cursor, and explain how model efficiency unlocks new possibilities for developers and teams. -- https://x.com/poteto https://x.com/roshan_s -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering t...

The Failure of Homeland Bio-Defense | Annie Jacobsen 12.08.2026

Annie Jacobsen joins MTS to discuss biological threats, the risks of lab leaks, and the challenges of biodefense in an era of rapidly advancing science and technology. https://x.com/AnnieJacobsen 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...

AI Might Replace Legacy Media | Brian Chau 11.08.2026

Brian Chau joins MTS to discuss automating investigative journalism with AI, running queries on million-document databases, and how Effort News is changing the economics of data-driven reporting. 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...

Are People Asking AI Who to Vote for? | Andy Hall 10.08.2026

Andy Hall joins MTS to discuss his research analyzing Claude conversation data to understand how Americans use AI for political learning, the technical challenges of building personalized voting agents, and the governance implications of AI automation. -- https://x.com/ahall_research -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow...

Is Middle America Right to Hate Data Centers? | Jasmine Sun 07.08.2026

Jasmine Sun joins MTS to discuss data center opposition in the Midwest, tensions between local governments and residents, and the economic impact of AI infrastructure projects on skilled trades and communities. 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...

The Intelligence AI Power Grab | Anton Leicht 07.08.2026

Anton Leicht joins MTS to discuss AI securitization policy, power distribution across government agencies and countries, and strategic options for middle powers building sovereign AI capacity. 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 Spo...

Classical Computing Can't Scale AI | Guillaume Verdon 06.08.2026

Guillaume Verdon joins MTS to discuss scaling thermodynamic computing, replacing classical bit architecture with pbits, and building software frameworks for stochastic programming. He outlines the trade-offs between numerical precision and power efficiency when running AI models on low-power chips. Additionally, he shares how thermodynamic systems can co-exist with GPUs to tackle complex frontier...

Is GDP Failing to Measure AGI? | Phillip Trammell 06.08.2026

Phillip Trammell joins MTS to discuss how GDP fails to measure prosperity across technology paths, what happens to the economy when AI automates all work, and why he believes humans should own machines rather than letting them own themselves. -- https://x.com/pawtrammell -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠...

Why AI-Driven Autonomous Attacks Are Forcing A Security Reset 06.08.2026

Anand Oswal joins MTS to discuss Palo Alto Networks' PAN-OS 12.2 Ceres release, including advanced virtual patching that creates automated protections in hours, AI-powered security agents with human-in-the-loop verification, and quantum safe cryptographic agility. Oswal shares how Unit 42 discovered over 14,000 previously unknown vulnerabilities in open source projects using frontier AI models...

The Supply Chain Threat to American AI Startups | Anastasios Angelopoulos 06.08.2026

Anastasios Angelopoulos joins MTS to discuss the latest frontier model releases from Chinese labs, price-performance dynamics on the Arena leaderboards, and the business models behind American open source AI. -- https://x.com/ml_angelopoulos -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠ Y...

Fixing the American Housing Market | Opendoor Team 05.08.2026

Kaz Nejatian, Vu Tran, and Yan Guo join MTS in three back-to-back interviews to discuss turning around a public company, building an AI-first corporate culture, and scaling real estate market making using proprietary data and machine learning. -- https://x.com/nejatian https://x.com/vu0tran https://x.com/yang_guo -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and...

ColdCard Bitcoin Hack EXPLAINED | Haseeb Qureshi 04.08.2026

Haseeb Qureshi joins MTS to discuss the economics of frontier-level intelligence as open models drop in price, the changing dynamics of cybersecurity as AI makes vulnerability discovery faster and cheaper, and how AI-native startups are building fundamentally different organizational structures. -- https://x.com/hosseeb -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politi...

The Math Behind AGI: Ray Kurzweil’s Timeline & AI Safety Risks | John Clark Levin 04.08.2026

John Clark Levin joins MTS to discuss AGI timelines and Ray Kurzweil's 2029 prediction, AI benchmarking and the need for better assessments of long time horizon tasks, and the role of chain of thought in enabling mathematical breakthroughs. -- https://x.com/JohnClarkLevin -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠...

Why AI Writing Still Doesn't Pass | Karina Nguyen 03.08.2026

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/...

Is AI Ruining Art? Or Saving It? | Cole Lee (@Covacut) | MTS Live 31.07.2026

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...

Demonstrating Home Robotics Live on MTS | Tony Zhao 31.07.2026

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...

Are AI Labs Losing Control? | Zvi Mowshowitz on the OpenAI Sandbox Incident 30.07.2026

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...

AI Breaking Cryptography: What Really Happened | Sean Cheetham 30.07.2026

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...

Is China the Biggest Risk in AI? | Zack Korman 30.07.2026

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...

Who Really Moves History's Needle? | Samo Burja 29.07.2026

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:/...

Open Source Can't Be Stopped | Charlie O'Neill Explains 28.07.2026

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...

Taste Is The Only Moat Left | NYU Professor Ruby Thelot Explains 28.07.2026

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...

The Race to Industrialize The Moon | Samo Burja 26.07.2026

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 on Tech Censorship, Data Centers, and Internet Freedoms 25.07.2026

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 on Why Banning Open Source Creates an AI Monopoly 25.07.2026

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:...

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