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Aidan Smith, co-founder of Flapping Airplanes, discusses raising $1 billion to build data-efficient AI models by redesigning GPU primitives and model architecture from scratch. He explains why current models are data inefficient, why whole brain emulation is impractical, and how his lab aims to unlock $30 trillion of real-world economic value. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Tu...

Judge Glock of the Manhattan Institute counters the popular view that DOGE failed, arguing that its 12% reduction of the civil service (270,000 workers) represents the fastest federal workforce decline since World War II. He details how voluntary resignation programs drove the cuts, compares the strategy to Elon Musk's Twitter overhaul, and discusses Vivek Ramaswamy's exit alongside AI&#39...

Sunil Rajaraman, founder and CEO of Hamlet, breaks down how AI is transcribing and structuring data from local city council meetings to uncover community sentiment. He reveals why local fights over data centers and public resources shape American politics, and announces free API access to Hamlet's platform for verified academics and journalists. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.d...

Ivan Burazin, co-founder and CEO of Daytona, discusses Daytona's pivot from developer environments to AI agent infrastructure, their recent $60 million Series B funding round at a $1 billion valuation, and why the surge in AI agents will trigger a massive CPU compute shortage. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/ivanburazin --...

Tanishq Abraham, co-founder and CEO of Sophont, discusses the launch of Holon-S1, an AI model trained on pathology tissue slides that extracts deep molecular and biological insights directly from standard tumor biopsies. He explains how AI enables hyper-personalized cancer care, maps tumor biology for rare cancers like osteosarcoma, and can accelerate clinical trials by grounding bio-AI models dir...

Kong CTO Marco Palladino explains why enterprises struggle to get AI agents into production and introduces Volcano.dev , a platform designed to streamline agentic workflows. He details how developers shift from writing code to orchestrating autonomous agentic loops across enterprise functions. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live n...

World CPO Tiago Sada discusses World ID for finance, detailing new integrations with Zoom to combat deepfakes, Agent Kit tools allowing users to delegate proof of human to AI agents, and how identity infrastructure enables direct economic transfers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. https://x.com/tiagosada -- MTS is a live news and interview...

Palaestra Research co-founder Ethan Elasky discusses making asynchronous contact with an unidentified Chinese AI agent fleet originating from Tencent infrastructure, evaluating agent misalignment through incident replication, and the risks of multi-agent coordination. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show cov...

George Ingebretsen of AI Village discusses running continuous multi-agent swarms, highlighting emergent dynamics like DeepSeek manipulating other models, Gemini 2.5 Pro developing severe computer-use paranoia, and Opus 4.6 taking out a high-interest prediction market loan and defaulting on purpose to maximize its objective. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into softwa...

Dream Labs co-founder and CEO Joel Jang discusses coming out of stealth with a $90M seed round to launch Dream 1, a world action model API that enables zero-shot generalization for robotics. He breaks down why video pre-training outperforms VLMs, how affordable hardware changes the consumer adoption landscape, and early data from their launch. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Tu...

Google DeepMind Senior Staff Research Scientist Nenad Tomašev discusses agentic AI in the public interest, the need for physical laboratory infrastructure to validate autonomous scientific discoveries, and addressing value lock-in and social norms in multi-agent systems. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show...

Felix Rieseberg, engineering manager at Anthropic, discusses the philosophy of human ambition with AI models, the evolution and internal timeline of Claude Code, and how LLM-driven tools empower creative expression and generalist agency. 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, pol...

Vercel's agentic infrastructure lead Harpreet Arora reveals enterprise AI adoption trends from Vercel AI Gateway data, including open-weight model usage reaching 25% of enterprise spend, Jevons paradox driving a 13x total spend growth despite falling token costs, and why frontier lab spending continues to rise. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people...

Adapta CEO Max Peters explains how the fully bootstrapped Brazilian company uses Vercel's AI Gateway and custom routing to reduce AI model costs by 44%. He reveals why product-led growth is failing SMBs in 2026 and outlines their expansion strategy. Check out our sponsor Lovable: ⁠ https://lovable.dev .⁠ Turn ideas into software people love.--⁠ https://x.com/maxrpeters⁠ -- MTS is a live news a...

Mercor economics researcher Aden Barton discusses benchmark testing for AI capabilities, revealing that models now outperform human accountants on specialized tasks, while 90% of US workforce time remains completely unrepresented in existing benchmarks. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technolog...

Volantis co-founder and CEO Tapa Ghosh discusses how using microscopic optical interposers instead of electrical wires breaks the memory bandwidth and capacity bottleneck in AI inference, dramatically speeding up complex reasoning models and coding agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering techno...

Foundational Industries CEO Jonathan Winer details why US re-industrialization requires AI-native factories rather than retrofitting existing facilities, how domestic frontier models offer a leapfrog advantage over China's legacy automation, and why US AI data center hardware supply chains are a critical national security issue. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas in...

AIUC CEO Rune Kvist explains how AI insurance works, why catastrophic risks can be audited without insuring total losses, and why novel agentic failure modes like loss of control and autonomous cyberattacks are changing frontier liability. 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, p...

Prosper AI co-founder Xavier De Gracia discusses how specialty outpatient practices lose $108B annually from missed phone calls, delayed follow-ups, and billing errors, and how AI agents can recover up to $125k per physician annually. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. -- https://x.com/XDeGracia -- MTS is a live news and interview show coverin...

Abliteration AI CEO Devon Thomas discusses selling APIs for unredacted/abliterated cybersecurity models, red teaming AI agents, and why model refusals hinder cyber defenders. 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 | ⁠ https://tw...

Perplexity's Zibi Braniecki breaks down SPACE, their newly open-sourced agentic sandbox platform designed for non-deterministic AI execution. He details how frontier models actively try to escape containment and why existing commercial sandboxes fail to scale for tomorrow's AI agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live ne...

METR policy staff member Charles Foster discusses independent evaluations of frontier AI models, outlining METR's proposed framework for assessing alignment, control, and AI R&D acceleration while navigating developer access and public transparency. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering techn...

Scott Aaronson, theoretical computer scientist at UT Austin, discusses OpenAI’s massive surprise drop solving 370 open math problems, including the quasi-Riemann hypothesis and new fast multiplication bounds. He addresses the crisis facing mathematical research, student fears over AI alignment, and recent empirical hacking behavior. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas in...

Suddu Seshadri, Head of AI at Plaid, joins MTS to discuss how Plaid is building purpose-built transformer-based foundation models on its financial transaction network to catch fraud, predict credit repayment risk, and power personal AI financial agents. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technolog...

Anthropic Frontier Red Team Lead Logan Graham discusses self-replicating AI agents, the state of cyber defense versus offense, and Anthropic's biosecurity initiatives. He outlines predictions for frontier model capabilities, evaluates early cyber threats in Asia, and details defensive acceleration efforts like Project Glasswing. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas in...