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Congressman Sam Liccardo breaks down the incoming Democratic majority’s agenda for artificial intelligence, from federal preemption and bipartisan safety standards to the pushback against frontier AI research pauses. He also outlines why mandatory kill switches remain technically unworkable and how Congress can leverage hyperscalers to rebuild the U.S. power grid while protecting local communities...

fal co-founder and CTO Gorkem Yurtseven breaks down the explosive demand driving their $1.65B raise at a $16B valuation. He explains why frontier LLMs are rapidly converging with 3D gaming and VFX pipelines, and shares his prediction for when we will see the first AI-assisted, feature-length animated film. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. --...

MongoDB's head of AI platform Chirag Shah breaks down why production agents fail without dedicated memory and context architecture. He explains how MongoDB built Atlas Agent Engine, why teams are over-indexing on LLM selection, and how multi-agent architectures are replacing traditional full-stack software. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people lov...

Former DOJ antitrust leadership Jonathan Kanter and Doha Mekki discuss exiting the Justice Department to launch FluxCap, an AI platform designed for complex litigation. They break down the shift from standard legal tech to specialized investigative AI, the post-election regulatory landscape, and why prosecutors must learn to interrogate algorithms. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.de...

Former Anthropic pre-training researcher and Core Automation co-founder Rohan Anil explains how compute islands allow decentralized GPU clusters to train frontier AI models without colocation. He details why current scaling hits test-time learning bottlenecks, how butterfly mixing handles asynchronous training noise, and sets a 2027 timeline for models that continuously learn on the fly. Check out...

Baseten co-head of model training Charlie O'Neill breaks down why recursive self-improvement will be much weaker than fast-takeoff theories predict, pointing to real-world compute and RL bottlenecks. He also unpacks why automating machine learning research faces sharp diminishing returns and introduces Baseten's newly launched inference and agent platform tools. Check out our sponsor Lovab...

Ruby Justice Thelot analyzes how algorithmic curation and platform economics have fractured cultural monoculture, flattening mainstream pop while accelerating niche subcultures. He examines empirical data across 11 years of celebrity Wikipedia traffic, Billboard streaming dispersion, and the surging adult toy market to argue that monolithic monoculture is officially over. -- https://x.com/being_on...

Khosla Ventures founding partner Samir Kaul joins MTS to discuss why compute is no longer the real bottleneck in AI biology, how the semiconductor supply shortage will break within five years, and why energy constraints will surpass chip limits in the next 12 months. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love. MTS is a live news and interview show cove...

Cyber ethnographer Ruby Justice Thelot explains why social media platforms are aging out young users, making a push into AI vertical dramas and 90-minute videos, and shedding personal communication. He tracks how the decline of traditional home hosting is spurring the rise of commercial offline spaces like run clubs and supper clubs.-- https://x.com/being_on_line --Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction...

Former OpenAI governance and DeepMind safety researcher Richard Ngo analyzes why rapid recursive self-improvement timelines are overhyped and breaks down how frontier labs justify race dynamics. He explains why AI capabilities will remain jagged for years and argues that the alignment field is bottlenecked by conceptual confusion and political groupthink. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lov...

Tutor Intelligence co-founder and CEO Josh Gruenstein discusses raising a $75M Series B to build and deploy factory robots across America. He explains why foundation models like GPT Astra unlock real-world physical automation, why 90% of US warehouses still lack a single robot, and how low-cost robotic labor could radically deflate physical goods. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev...

Luke Alvoeiro from Factory breaks down Droid 1.0, introducing a programmatic tool calling engine that generates multi-step scripts to cut context bloat and boost agent reliability. He reveals how Droid secured an 8% lead over Claude Code on Terminal Bench 4 using identical frontier models, and shares his 5-year outlook for fully autonomous software factories. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https:/...

Larridin co-founder and CEO Russ Fradin breaks down data from their enterprise AI research and Anthropic's S-1 filing, showing how AI spend currently drives massive productivity gains for top engineers while lowering output for bottom performers. He outlines why enterprise agent adoption remains tiny, how companies must audit workflows to justify hundreds of billions in model spend, and when real...

Representative George Whitesides discusses the reality of recursive self-improvement inside frontier labs, his push to monitor automated AI R&D, and his call for a mandatory one-month pause on frontier model development modeled on aerospace flight halts. He also details congressional battles over funding the Center for AI Safety and Innovation, federal oversight of classroom AI use, and the ge...

Foundation for American Innovation research fellow Daniel King breaks down the impending race to industrialize outer space through rapid advancements in robotics and AI. He unpacks the real-world economics of orbital data centers, the strategic risks of chokepointed terrestrial launch infrastructure, and the rising push for commercial space titling over speculative galaxy distribution schemes. Che...

Base director Antonio García Martínez joins MTS to discuss how on-chain infrastructure is unlocking global access to US equities and fueling autonomous AI agent transactions. He explores the rise of tokenized stocks, why agent-to-agent e-commerce will outpace human retail, and how programmable finance is becoming the native monetary layer for AI. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev....

MNX founders Stephen Grugett and Alex Masmej explain how they built a new financial exchange to trade AI valuations, compute futures, and fast-takeoff risk. They break down why OpenAI and Anthropic pull ahead in short timeline scenarios, the market mechanics behind compute commodities, and how decentralized infrastructure responds to cyber threats. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.de...

General Compute co-founder and CTO Jason Goodison breaks down their $100M Series A to build a dedicated inference cloud on Cerebras wafers. He explains why fast inference requires moving away from standard GPU racks, how the industry is shifting from a dial-up era to broadband interactivity, and why open-source models will drive the next generation of real-time AI agents. Check out our sponsor Lov...

Foundry Robotics founder and CEO Adarsh Kulkarni discusses raising a $100M Series A to build software-defined, AI-orchestrated factories from scratch. He explains why retrofitting legacy sites fails, outlines the four-nines reliability barrier in manufacturing, and predicts 1 million robots will deliver 5 billion work hours annually within 36 months. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable....

Edison Scientific founder and CEO Sam Rodriques breaks down their new partnership with Pfizer to deploy superintelligence across pharma R&D. He details how their AI scientists Robin and Cosmos are already discovering novel disease treatments, and maps out why drug repurposing will deliver rapid medical breakthroughs before entirely new AI-designed compounds arrive. Check out our sponsor Lovabl...

AMD's Ian Weinberg demos the Ryzen AI Halo developer box live in studio with Sophia Dew, running massive AI workloads locally. He details how 192GB of unified memory unlocks local 300-billion-parameter models and multi-agent workflows, and explains how semantic routing diverts 70% of enterprise reasoning tasks away from frontier models to on-prem silicon. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https:/...

Stanford professor and Hoover Institution senior fellow Allison Okamura challenges the current race toward humanoid robots, arguing that single-task and soft vine architectures will transform industries like medicine and eldercare far faster. She warns against applying language-model agentic AI directly to physical robots without safety guarantees, outlining what robotics adoption will actually lo...

Alexander Barry, head of capabilities tracking at Epoch AI, breaks down a new study showing how open-weight AI models can reverse engineer software patches into zero-day browser exploits. He discusses testing GLM 5.3 against Firefox, the shrinking patch gap, and whether upcoming models like Kimi K3.1 Pro threaten frontier cyber security. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ide...

Harmonic co-founder and CEO Tudor Achim discusses expanding their Aristotle formal verification system from math proofs to C code and chip design. He explains why AI-powered cyber attacks make code verification an urgent national security priority for critical infrastructure, and how formal verification eliminates entire classes of exploits. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn...

Cohere Chief AI Officer Joelle Pineau discusses the company's massive Series E fundraise, expanding enterprise deployments, and building frontier AI models outside the US and China. She also breaks down Cohere's acquisition of Prague-based cybersecurity harness startup Aisle and the imperative for organizations to use AI for defense. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn...