MTS
MTS
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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Episodes
Why AI Agents Won't Take Over Enterprise Yet | Tarek Alaruri 08.10.2026 15:08
Tarek Alaruri, co-founder and CEO of Stu, discusses their new $52.5M Series B round and how the platform automates accounts receivable for enterprise clients. He outlines why enterprise AI adoption faces human and workflow bottlenecks, challenges the narrative of rapid autonomous agent adoption, and explains why legacy systems keep enterprise transition grounded. Check out our sponsor Lovable: htt...
Your Camera Roll Is the Ultimate AI Context Layer | Marissa Mayer 08.10.2026 21:01
Marissa Mayer, founder and CEO of Dazzle and former CEO of Yahoo, discusses launching her new photo-based personal AI assistant. She explains how leveraging camera roll context provides personalized AI assistance, tasks automation, human-in-the-loop workflows, and novel privacy protections. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news...
Millions of Small AIs Could Beat One Giant Model | Andrew Trask 07.10.2026 27:29
Andrew Trask, Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind and Executive Director of OpenMind, discusses the limits of embedded evaluators, double-blind frontier model testing via confidential compute, and why ensemble routing could decentralize the AI landscape. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering...
Personal Agents Are Replacing the Human Consumer | James Cadwallader 07.10.2026 25:04
James Cadwallader, co-founder and CEO of Profound, discusses raising $180 million at a $1.8 billion valuation to build the AI-native marketing stack. He breaks down how autonomous personal agents are transforming consumers into agentic shoppers, and how enterprise brands are shifting to agent-first marketing strategies. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software p...
Game Controllers Are the Universal Robot Interface | Pim de Witte 07.10.2026 22:00
General Intuition Co-Founder and CEO Pim de Witte discusses their $220M Series A raise at a $6.2B valuation, proving sim-to-real transfer to real-world robotics using game controllers, and their thesis on scaling world models natively in pixel space. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology,...
How Anthropic Schismed From OpenAI | Kevin Roose 07.10.2026 14:09
Kevin Roose discusses his new book The AGI Chronicles , detailing Dario Amodei's early 2019 scaling roadmap, eureka moments in AI history, and the internal schism at OpenAI that led to the founding of Anthropic. 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...
Why Design Is the New Code | Dylan Field 06.10.2026 16:23
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...
Why Specialized AI Beats Frontier Models | Anthony Pompliano 06.10.2026 24:26
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...
Frontier AI Models Now Fit on Your MacBook | Sigil Wen 06.10.2026 8:54
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...
How Game Design Primitives Prepare Us for AI | Bing Gordon 06.10.2026 24:32
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...
Why Washington Gets Open Source AI Wrong | Matt White 06.10.2026 27:47
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...
Why NVIDIA Acquired Hugging Face for $12.9B | Thomas Wolf 06.10.2026 22:06
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...
Why the US Is Moving AI Policy Behind Closed Doors 06.10.2026 33:19
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...
Why 70% of Enterprise AI Seats Sit Idle | Russ Fradin 06.10.2026 27:10
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...
Why 60% of Global Losses Go Uninsured | Jamie Cuffe 05.10.2026 24:50
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...
How Double-Blind Tests Could Secure Frontier AI | Patricia Paskov 05.10.2026 21:25
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...
Why AI Competition Forces Labs to Race | Dan Robinson 05.10.2026 19:47
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://...
Why LLMs Need a Collective Memory Layer | Pablo Stern-Plaza 05.10.2026 23:53
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...
AI Agents Are Spawning Unpredictable Traffic | Ben Cefalo 04.10.2026 24:47
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...
Why 401ks Will Access Private Markets | Davis Thacker 04.10.2026 27:48
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...
Why Patients Wait 30 Days for Follow-Ups | Trey Holterman 04.10.2026 26:05
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...
Why the Data Center PR War Is Getting Worse | Jonas Du 04.10.2026 14:59
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...
AI Agents Will Cause Mass Subscription Cancellations | Rob Hadick 04.10.2026 24:40
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...
Why CFOs Are Secretly Moving to Stablecoins | Dileep Thazhmon 04.10.2026 22:06
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...
How Agents Searched 3 Million Epstein Documents | Dylan Freedman 03.10.2026 21:06
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...
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