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The best moments from MTS on May 5, 2026: Dean Ball on the Trump administration's shift toward reviewing frontier AI models before release and what a workable government eval regime looks like, Harley Finkelstein on Shopify's Q1 earnings and the discipline of running a 100-year company, Jeff Morris Jr. on treating venture capital as a product and the flight to quality across software, and...

Victor Cardenas joins MTS to discuss how Slash uses AI agents to automate back office operations, the emergence of massive revenue companies with tiny headcounts, and why AI will create more millionaires than the internet. -- https://x.com/victorcardenas -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠h...

Alex Sammon joins MTS to discuss the collapse of Florida's orange industry, the shift of production to Brazil, and how Wall Street consolidation and real estate development reshaped the state's agricultural landscape. -- ⁠ https://x.com/alex_sammon⁠ -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠...

The best moments from MTS on May 4, 2026: the collapse of Florida's orange industry, hyperfinancialization and the case for memory stocks, and how Slash built a $300M revenue fintech with 60 people. -- 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 | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠...

Balaji Srinivasan and Taylor Lorenz join MTS to discuss the rise of the creator economy, the importance of internet freedom in light of age verification laws, and the need for decentralized cryptographic verification systems. They explore how digital media is evolving, the role of privacy and encryption technology, and how tech platforms are becoming new gatekeepers for online content. -- https://...

Gary Leff joins MTS to discuss Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy and the ultra low cost carrier model, how basic economy fares helped legacy airlines compete more effectively, and opportunities in new aircraft technology including electric and short takeoff planes. -- https://x.com/garyleff -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. F...

Vlad Tenev joins MTS to discuss Robinhood's expansion into prediction markets, the company's strategy for tokenizing private companies and real-world assets, and the rollout of agentic AI trading tools. Tenev also explains the Trump accounts program, Robinhood's partnership with BNY as the sole initial broker, and how the company is positioning itself for the generational wealth transf...

Hans Niemann joins MTS to discuss building Endgame with AI coaching features, the differences between blitz and classical chess, and how government support in countries like India and Uzbekistan is shaping the global chess landscape. He shares his views on chess as an educational tool and the need for a more organized tournament structure in professional chess. -- https://x.com/HansMokeNiemann --...

Greg Eisenberg joins MTS to discuss why Codex is becoming a super app, how companies should reverse engineer short form video for distribution, and why one person billion dollar companies will emerge in the next two years through agentic engineering. -- https://x.com/gregisenberg -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS...

Will O'Brien joins MTS to discuss why the ocean lost its cultural cachet as a frontier after the 1960s and how Ulysses is working to revive it, where the US and China currently stand on autonomous underwater vehicles, and why the technological enablers for seasteading are only now becoming viable. -- https://x.com/Willob -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, p...

Geoffrey Woo joins MTS to discuss Anti Fund's investment strategy, the importance of attention and character for founders, and how creators build durability by evolving across platforms and narratives. -- https://x.com/geoffreywoo -- 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...

Cold Healing joins MTS to discuss why young people should still move to big cities, the durability of New York and San Francisco against rivals like Austin and Miami, and what the disorganized state of the American left looks like after the MAGA moment. -- https://x.com/coldhealing -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow M...

Kylie Robinson joins MTS to discuss her takeaways from interviewing Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, including Altman's claim that OpenAI plans to manufacture its own actuators. She also addresses why writers have largely accepted AI training data as a foregone conclusion, and how the AI boom has transformed San Francisco's housing market and social scene. -- https://x.com/kyliebytes -- MTS i...

Lyn Alden joins MTS to discuss the semiconductor rally and where value accumulates in the AI buildout, the divergence between Bitcoin and software stocks, and the macro fallout from the Strait of Hormuz crisis. -- https://x.com/LynAldenContact -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twit...

Sheel Mohnot joins MTS to discuss the blocked Meta acquisition of Manus AI, California's jungle primary system and the governor race, and the structural challenges facing ultra low cost carriers like Spirit Airlines. -- https://x.com/pitdesi -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠https://twitter....

Steven Sinofsky, Aaron Levie, and Martin Casado join MTS to discuss the widening gap between Silicon Valley and enterprise AI adoption, why agents should be treated more like humans than software, and what headless SaaS means for the future of work. -- https://x.com/stevesi https://x.com/levie https://x.com/martin_casado Brought to you by: Granola - The AI notepad. Try it once and never go back. h...

Shaun Maguire joins MTS to discuss the two positions he calls the most controversial of the past year, pro Israel and pro data centers, covering the strategic read on the Iran conflict, what it signals for China and Taiwan, and why compute for AGI may ultimately move to space. -- https://x.com/shaunmmaguire -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and cultu...

Packy McCormick joins MTS to discuss ocean-based data centers, stranded energy assets powering the AI buildout, and the state of tech optimism in 2026. -- https://x.com/packyM -- 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:...

Signüll joins MTS to discuss why modern dating apps are broken, his thesis that the internet tends to reverse pre existing social norms, and what Apple's next chapter looks like as AI reshapes the iPhone. -- https://x.com/signulll -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠⁠ You...

10x Engineer joins MTS to discuss the backlash over Anthropic's silent token limit test, the tradeoffs between Claude Code and Codex for daily development, and why vibe coding should replace LeetCode in the engineering interview process. -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/MTS...

Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss what makes new media experiments work, why she opposes school phone bans, and how AI-generated aesthetics and streamer culture are producing the internet's next wave of IP. -- https://x.com/TaylorLorenz -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS:  X | ⁠ ⁠⁠ ⁠https://twitter.com/MTSliv...

Ben Smith of Semafor joins MTS to discuss Marc Andreessen's retreat from media and the group chat era that followed, how Semafor was built to go straight up the middle on a polarized media landscape, and why the digital fog of war has made it harder than ever to know what's actually happening in real-time conflicts. He also reflects on BuzzFeed's collapse, the platform risk of building...

Martin Shkreli joins MTS to discuss the OpenAI and Anthropic rivalry, why he believes optical computing will end the silicon era, and how generics, GLP-1 patent expirations, and the DIY peptide movement are reshaping pharma economics. -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS: X | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.com/MTSlive⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠...

Cremieux joins MTS to discuss China's rapid ascent to the top of global clinical trial output, the structural regulatory reforms that drove it, and what the US would need to do to close the gap. He covers novel gene therapy pipelines, the market authorization holder system, and why pharmaceutical profit margins may be the biggest bottleneck to American biomedical innovation. -- MTS is a live n...

Aella joins MTS to discuss AI doom, transhumanism, and the economic illiteracy of young people. She walks through her approach to microdosing psychedelics, her views on wireheading and gene editing, and her new creator project Please Don't Kill Us. -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS: X | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://twitter.c...