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Kovacevich also addressed AI existential risk versus near-term issues like jobs and training, arguing that voter salience for AI remains low outside tech circles.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/02.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1482,"startSec":5954,"endSec":6437,"title":"Adam Thierer on Effective Altruism Criticism, AI Safety Risks, and Permissionless Innovation | MTS Live","summary":"Adam Thierer discussed his recent critique of effective altruism, arguing that converting utilitarianism into a quasi-religion leads to speculative catastrophism and overly centralized approaches to AI safety. He contrasted this with permissionless innovation and decentralized, iterative safety methods, warning against a 'war on computation' involving extreme regulations like licensing regimes and kill switches. 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Kvist addressed challenges in insuring catastrophic tail risks, the value of incremental insurance markets for building safety models, and emerging agentic AI incidents such as cyber attacks.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/04.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1484,"startSec":8143,"endSec":9009,"title":"Tulsee Doshi on Gemini 4 Argon Launch, 3D Modeling Capabilities, and AI Safety And Alignment | MTS Live","summary":"Tulsee Doshi discussed the launch of Gemini 4 Argon, highlighting its advanced 3D modeling, multimodal capabilities, and strong performance in coding, reasoning, and writing tasks. She explained the model's development focus on precision, persistence, and handling complex long-horizon problems, along with its million-token context window for deep reasoning use cases. Doshi also covered safety and alignment measures including chain-of-thought monitoring, responsible rollout via the Fairwind cyber program, and internal Google use cases in cyber defense, code optimization, and scientific research.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/05.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1485,"startSec":12128,"endSec":13407,"title":"Aaron Levie on AI Agent Compute Demands, Enterprise Agent Swarms, and Agentic Security Infrastructure | MTS Live","summary":"Aaron Levie discussed the massive future compute demands of AI agents and agent swarms, especially in enterprise settings. He explained how personal agents will drive significant but ultimately capped growth, while enterprise workflows and swarms will cause nonlinear increases in token and infrastructure usage. 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Key themes included voice as the natural UI for real-world workers, using proprietary fleet data for personalized agents, and the long timeline for enterprise adoption due to change management and IT integration.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/07.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1487,"startSec":15516,"endSec":16198,"title":"Brad Bogolea on Physical AI in Retail, Autonomous Shelf-Scanning Robots, and Digitizing Retail Stores | MTS Live","summary":"Brad Bogolea discussed how Simbi is digitizing physical retail environments with autonomous shelf-scanning robots called Tally. He explained the progression from data capture and orchestration to automation and agentic systems that help retailers manage inventory, pricing, and workforce tasks. The conversation covered real-world deployment challenges across varied store layouts, the importance of operating in production environments rather than simulations, and the shift toward change management as the key bottleneck. Bogolea also shared the company's focus on global expansion and vertically integrated physical AI solutions.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/08.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1488,"startSec":16444,"endSec":17201,"title":"Alexander Amini on Liquid Foundation Models, Local AI Deployment, and Biological AI Applications | MTS Live","summary":"Alexander Amini, co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Liquid AI and MIT AI scientist, discussed the launch of the LFM 2.5 series, particularly the efficient 24B MOE model optimized for on-device and agentic tasks. He explained the advantages of specialized local models over generalist cloud models for tool calling, robotics, and disconnected environments. Amini also covered Liquid AI's work on multimodal foundation models, including biological data for aging prediction, and the company's vision for edge intelligence across physical modalities.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/09.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1489,"startSec":17438,"endSec":18194,"title":"Harry Kargman on AI Ad Automation, Digital Advertising Trends, and Small Business Marketing | MTS Live","summary":"Harry Kargman discussed the launch of Carlo, an AI platform that automates ad creation and buying for small and medium businesses across CTV, social platforms, and the open web. He explained how Cargo's 15+ years of integrations with major publishers and platforms enable this self-serve capability previously limited to large enterprises. Kargman also covered broader industry shifts from manual contextual ads to data-driven targeting, privacy challenges from Apple, and the role of agents in future ad workflows.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/10.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1490,"startSec":19091,"endSec":20716,"title":"Taylor Savage on Orchestration Primitives, Cloud AI Agents, and Factory Environments | MTS Live","summary":"Taylor Savage, Head of Product at Factory, discussed the company's new orchestration primitives for coordinating fleets of AI coding agents called droids. The conversation covered environments for setting up secure cloud sandboxes, remote control for persistent machines, missions for long-running multi-agent projects, and cost/security controls. Savage explained why harnesses and models should remain separate, the value of sovereign deployments, and Factory's focus on building a product that lets customers create self-improving software factories rather than offering one-off services.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/11.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1491,"startSec":21174,"endSec":22587,"title":"Samuel Hammond on Superintelligence Task Force, AI National Security Policy, and Government Talent Pipelines | MTS Live","summary":"Samuel Hammond discussed the new Superintelligence Task Force, its 120-day charter, and the shift toward national security framing of frontier AI policy under figures like Jay Clayton and Susie Wiles. He covered the convergence of AI timelines, risks around model weights, cyber offense/defense balance, and the need for interagency coordination and independent evaluators. Hammond also addressed talent pipelines into government, compensation barriers, and the value of Section 708 agreements to enable coordination without antitrust violations.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/3F4OClMtJWk/chapters/12.mp4","guests":[]}]},{"n":111,"title":"Episode 111","airedAt":"2026-10-09T19:30:11.340Z","duration":null,"xUrl":"https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1DGleVPVZvoJL","youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TiAK1N78K8","description":null,"guests":[],"chapters":[{"id":1476,"startSec":777,"endSec":1050,"title":"AJ Scaramucci on Solari Capital Thesis, Programmable Biology, and AI Healthcare Education | MTS Live","summary":"AJ Scaramucci discussed the launch of Solari Capital and its core thesis that reality is fundamentally programmable. He drew from books like The Singularity is Near and Abundance to frame exponential progress in computation, biology, and AI. The conversation covered programmable biology, capital allocation for scientific innovation, investments in AI-enabled healthcare and education companies, and the challenges of working with legacy systems in regulated industries.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/9TiAK1N78K8/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1477,"startSec":1019,"endSec":1922,"title":"AJ Scaramucci on Solari Capital Thesis, Programmable Biology, and Scarcity Assets | MTS Live","summary":"Interview with AJ Scaramucci on the launch of Solari Capital, its investment thesis around programmable reality, biology, and accelerated science, prior work at SALT and Radial Health, and views on capital allocation, scarcity assets, and long-term abundance.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/9TiAK1N78K8/chapters/02.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1478,"startSec":1906,"endSec":1922,"title":"Cesar Carvalho on Solaris Capital Launch and Investment Thesis | MTS Live","summary":"Host Sophia Dew wraps the interview, thanking the guest (referred to as AJ) for discussing the launch of Solaris Capital, its investment thesis, and future outlook. 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Wen highlighted how local agents could reshape the economy by enabling private, aligned transactions and reducing reliance on advertising-based business models.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/EubpKI642h4/chapters/03.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1450,"startSec":12409,"endSec":13834,"title":"Russ Fradin on Enterprise AI ROI, Productivity Measurement, and AI Adoption Barriers | MTS Live","summary":"Russ Fradin, co-founder and CEO of Lairdyn, discussed how enterprises can measure real AI usage, productivity gains, and ROI across teams. The conversation covered challenges in mapping workflows, context stitching across tools like Slack, email, and custom software, and why most large companies still show very low adoption outside of developers. Fradin emphasized organizational transformation, training, and the need for company-specific data over generic metrics, predicting an explosion in HR and L&D work rather than mass job replacement.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/EubpKI642h4/chapters/04.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1451,"startSec":14154,"endSec":15103,"title":"Zain Javaid on Personal AI Hardware, Local AI Models, and Consumer AI Agents | MTS Live","summary":"Zain Javaid, founder and CEO of Ghost, discussed the launch of Core, a $3,500 local AI computer designed for personal agents. He explained why local hardware is needed for privacy, full context, and always-on processing without sending data to labs. Javaid covered adoption barriers, economics of local inference, and predictions for agent use cases over the next year and decade.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/EubpKI642h4/chapters/05.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1452,"startSec":16267,"endSec":17446,"title":"Thomas Wolf on NVIDIA Acquisition, Open Weights Models, and AI Alignment | MTS Live","summary":"Thomas Wolf, co-founder and chief science officer of Hugging Face, discussed the company's recent acquisition by NVIDIA and the strategic alignment around open-weights models. He explained the growing adoption of open models by enterprises, the role of fine-tuning tools, and how open weights provide privacy and ownership advantages over closed APIs. Wolf also covered the new open alignment team's work on transparency, defending against model attacks, preventing harmful behaviors like social engineering, and advancing interpretability research in open-source models.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/EubpKI642h4/chapters/06.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1453,"startSec":18067,"endSec":19331,"title":"Bing Gordon & Chloe Gordon on Game Design Lessons, Everybody Wins Book, and User Generated Content | MTS Live","summary":"Bing Gordon and Chloe Gordon discussed lessons from decades of game design and investment, centered on their book 'Everybody Wins'. They explored how game design primitives like motivation, cooperation, self-expression, and social relationships apply to consumer products, AI-era abundance, and building positive-sum experiences. 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White also addressed compute access disparities versus China and predicted stronger US open model ecosystems.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/EubpKI642h4/chapters/08.mp4","guests":[]}]},{"n":106,"title":"Episode 106","airedAt":"2026-10-02T16:06:44.443Z","duration":null,"xUrl":"https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1rxmqpvaYNDxy","youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QXY8Kfh7700","description":null,"guests":[],"chapters":[{"id":1440,"startSec":3727,"endSec":4842,"title":"Anastasios Angelopoulos on AI Model Leaderboards, Arena Benchmarks, and Model Evaluation | MTS Live","summary":"Anastasios Angelopoulos, co-founder and CEO of Arena, discussed the latest AI model evaluations from the Arena platform. He highlighted Gemini 4 Argon's strong performance on text leaderboards but noted drops in expert and agentic tasks. The conversation covered expert benchmarks, cost-per-task vs. cost-per-token metrics, web dev and agent evaluations, and future directions like safety, personalization, and continual learning benchmarks.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/QXY8Kfh7700/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1441,"startSec":5448,"endSec":6620,"title":"Rayan Krishnan on AI Benchmarks, Recursive Self-Improvement, and AI Regulation | MTS Live","summary":"Rayan Krishnan discussed AI regulation developments from recent DC meetings, including expectations around increased budgets for oversight bodies and emerging ideological divides. He introduced the RSI Index, a benchmark tracking recursive self-improvement capabilities across pre-training, post-training, and engineering tasks, projecting full RSI for leading labs around mid-2027. Krishnan also covered Vals AI's broader benchmarking efforts, enterprise auto-benchmarking tools, and the challenges of measuring societal impacts like social mobility and equitable access to model capabilities.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/QXY8Kfh7700/chapters/02.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1442,"startSec":6936,"endSec":8436,"title":"Kevin Frazier on AI Policy, Model Constitutions, and Lab Governance | MTS Live","summary":"Kevin Frazier discussed his work on AI policy at UT Austin, including efforts to introduce AGI-focused courses and reading groups for students. He explored the role of model constitutions and specs in shaping AI behavior, emphasizing the need for transparency, broader stakeholder input, and clearer amendment processes. 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Yang also covered political reform via the Forward Party, independent Senate candidates, and rank-choice voting to create a more responsive government.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/QXY8Kfh7700/chapters/05.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1445,"startSec":16247,"endSec":17531,"title":"Rob Hadick on AI Agents in Finance, Personal Agent Limitations, and Agent Coordination Risks | MTS Live","summary":"Rob Hadick, GP at Dragonfly, discussed the limitations of consumer AI agents like Instinct and Muse, arguing they lack lock-in, face rising competition, and struggle to monetize or handle financial tasks reliably due to Plaid/ACH constraints. He contrasted these with agent-first banks and fintechs that can control accounts, automate workflows, and capture value more effectively. The conversation covered coordination risks such as mass subscription cancellations, reservation spam, potential bank runs from synchronized agent behavior, and how widespread agent-driven investing could compress alpha and drive capital into consensus tech stocks.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/QXY8Kfh7700/chapters/06.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1446,"startSec":18389,"endSec":19418,"title":"Dan Robinson on AI Pacing Dynamics, Recursive Self-Improvement, and AI Safety Games | MTS Live","summary":"Dan Robinson joined Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini to demo and discuss Paradigm's AI pacing game, based on an economics paper modeling race dynamics between AI labs. They explored prisoner's dilemma incentives, safety frontiers, voluntary coordination, transparency, and equilibria between slowing down versus accelerating. Robinson also reflected on related RSI game mechanics, bottlenecks like compute and data, and upcoming games exploring weak links in automation.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/QXY8Kfh7700/chapters/07.mp4","guests":[]}]},{"n":105,"title":"Episode 105","airedAt":"2026-10-01T16:11:12.652Z","duration":null,"xUrl":"https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1dGYlaAvVgyKX","youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF5edj36iQ4","description":null,"guests":[],"chapters":[{"id":1431,"startSec":4193,"endSec":5317,"title":"Dileep Thazhmon on Stablecoin Product Expansion, Global Enterprise Payments, and Agentic Payments Adoption | MTS Live","summary":"Dileep Thazhmon, CEO of Jeeves, discussed the company's $110M Series C1 raise to expand its stablecoin-powered financial operating system for global enterprises. He explained Jeeves' origin from personal pain points with multi-country banking and how stablecoins now enable real-time multi-currency spend visibility plus AI spend tracking. The conversation covered agentic payments, adoption corridors in Latin America, regulatory clarity needs, and predictions for enterprise stablecoin usage over the next 1-10 years.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/wF5edj36iQ4/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1432,"startSec":7462,"endSec":8564,"title":"Minna Song on AI for Essential Industries, Healthcare Operations Automation, and Housing Tech Scaling | MTS Live","summary":"Minna Song, co-founder and CEO of Elise AI (also referred to as Elyse AI), discussed the company's early start in AI for essential industries, beginning with housing and expanding into healthcare. She explained their vertically integrated, product-first approach to automating operations like scheduling and insurance verification using AI across voice, text, and email. Song covered technical challenges in regulated environments, recent $350M funding at a $4B valuation, growth plans including new engineering hubs, and long-term views on AI adoption and robotics in housing and healthcare.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/wF5edj36iQ4/chapters/02.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1433,"startSec":8872,"endSec":10343,"title":"Davis Thacker on Private Market Infrastructure, Venture Capital Trends, and AI in Financial Services | MTS Live","summary":"Davis Thacker, Chief Strategy Officer at Carta, discussed the company's evolution from cap table management into a full ERP for private markets, including fund administration, private equity, and legal services. He covered macro venture trends such as concentrated capital in fewer companies, rising secondaries, and the backlog of IPOs awaiting Anthropic and OpenAI. Thacker also explained Carta's AI-driven productivity gains, plugin ecosystem, and long-term bets on private equity growth plus eventual retail/retirement capital entering private markets.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/wF5edj36iQ4/chapters/03.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1434,"startSec":10771,"endSec":12058,"title":"Jamie Cuffe on AI Agents in Insurance, Insurance Underwriting Automation, and Protection Gap Solutions | MTS Live","summary":"Jamie Cuffe, founder and CEO of Pace, discussed how AI agents are transforming insurance operations for large carriers and brokers. He explained how agents handle unstructured data, legacy systems, underwriting, claims, and quality assurance at scale, unlocking new markets and reducing the $9T protection gap. The conversation covered the shift from point solutions to end-to-end agentic workflows, the $400B BPO spend opportunity, and why insurance is an early adopter of frontier AI.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/wF5edj36iQ4/chapters/04.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1435,"startSec":13130,"endSec":13852,"title":"Jonas Du on Pro Data Center Party, Data Center Policy Backlash, and Tech PR Strategies | MTS Live","summary":"Jonas Du discussed the origin and execution of the Pro Data Center Party he co-organized in Washington, D.C. He explained how the event arose organically from frustration with anti-data center hysteria and policy moves in states like Texas and Pennsylvania. Du covered the party's success, media attention, protester interruptions, and plans to expand similar events to other cities like San Francisco.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/wF5edj36iQ4/chapters/05.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1436,"startSec":14349,"endSec":15645,"title":"Joe Byrne on Autonomous AI Development, Enterprise Code Refactoring, and Blitzy Platform | MTS Live","summary":"Joe Byrne, Field CTO at Blitzy, discussed his role acting as a technical proxy for enterprise customers and prospects. He explained Blitzy's autonomous AI development platform designed for massive legacy codebases, including reverse-engineering via knowledge graphs, refactoring, greenfield builds, and long-running agentic workflows. Byrne covered community outreach strategies for data centers from the prior segment context, PR review features, code readability vs. trust through testing, security architecture preventing rogue agents, and the company's rapid progress since its 2023 founding.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/wF5edj36iQ4/chapters/06.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1437,"startSec":16066,"endSec":17187,"title":"Dylan Freedman on Epstein Files Engine, AI for Investigative Journalism, and Agent Security Guardrails | MTS Live","summary":"Dylan Freedman discussed his work building the Epstein Files Engine, an AI agent system that helped New York Times reporters rapidly search, classify, and cite millions of pages of Epstein documents. He explained how AI is used for large-scale document analysis, entity extraction, semantic search, and investigative workflows while maintaining human oversight. 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The conversation covers economic impacts of Prop 13, transit funding models, post-COVID transit challenges, and why Georgism faded after the rise of cars and Marxism.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/wF5edj36iQ4/chapters/08.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1439,"startSec":21217,"endSec":22071,"title":"Barrett Lyon on Decentralized Mesh Networks, AI Agent Communication, and Privacy-First VPNs | MTS Live","summary":"Barrett Lyon discussed the origins of the name DocsNet and its evolution from his early internet projects. He explained how the platform started as a hobby project for covert networking and grew into a decentralized mesh network with P2P chat, video, and API-driven features optimized for AI agents. Lyon highlighted its privacy advantages over centralized apps like Signal, real-world use cases including data movement in restricted regions, and the company's AI-managed global infrastructure following a $38M Series A.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/wF5edj36iQ4/chapters/09.mp4","guests":[]}]},{"n":104,"title":"Episode 104","airedAt":"2026-09-30T16:04:29.947Z","duration":null,"xUrl":"https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vKpPNOzgYkKE","youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyaUzDxf3fM","description":null,"guests":[],"chapters":[{"id":1426,"startSec":1815,"endSec":2601,"title":"Ashley Kramer on Eleven Labs V4 Model, AI Voice Agents, and Enterprise AI Use Cases | MTS Live","summary":"Ashley Kramer, CRO of Eleven Labs, discussed the launch of their V4 voice model featuring improved emotional range, multi-speaker support, and coverage of over 90 languages. She explained architectural changes enabling more natural conversational interactions via V4 Turbo and highlighted enterprise use cases in customer support, healthcare scheduling, and restaurant reservations. Kramer also covered Eleven Agents as a launch partner in OpenAI's marketplace, internal AI tools like their sales development representative, and the implications of the company's recent $300M employee tender at a $22B valuation.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/KyaUzDxf3fM/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1427,"startSec":3570,"endSec":4901,"title":"Peter Yang on AI Agents, Productivity Workflows, and Consumer AI Tools | MTS Live","summary":"Peter Yang discussed the current landscape of consumer AI agents including OpenAI's Dot, GrokBot, Muse, and Instinct. He compared their use cases for work versus personal tasks and shared practical workflows for using agents to automate content creation, email handling, research, and video editing. Yang also covered productivity gains from LLMs, the challenges of teaching models versus humans, and advice for everyday users on connecting apps to agents.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/KyaUzDxf3fM/chapters/02.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1428,"startSec":5469,"endSec":6832,"title":"Bryan Cantrill on Oxide Computer Hardware, On-prem Cloud Computing, and AI Extinction Risk | MTS Live","summary":"Bryan Cantrill, co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company, discussed the company's mission to build rack-scale hardware and software for on-prem cloud computing as an alternative to public cloud economics. He explained challenges with traditional commodity servers, why hyperscalers design their own machines, and Oxide's early federal government customer. The conversation then shifted to critiques of AI extinction risk narratives, the overreach of non-domain experts like Geoffrey Hinton on topics such as radiology, and the practical difficulties of fully automating the economy.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/KyaUzDxf3fM/chapters/03.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1429,"startSec":7320,"endSec":8543,"title":"Archie Hall on AI Writing Norms, British Economy AI Risks, and Housing Market Pressures | MTS Live","summary":"Archie Hall discussed norms around AI-generated writing, arguing for caution in contexts where provenance and authorial relationship matter while acknowledging that repetitive or low-stakes uses may become acceptable. He outlined a bear-case scenario for the British economy, highlighting its heavy reliance on services exports and slow technology adoption that could leave it vulnerable to nimbler AI-enabled competitors. Hall also examined risks to housing markets from rising bond yields and variable-rate mortgages, and explored why Anglo-world planning systems chronically constrain housing supply.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/KyaUzDxf3fM/chapters/04.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1430,"startSec":13329,"endSec":13658,"title":"Ali Golshan on AI Agent Safety, OpenShell Runtime, and Agent Governance | MTS Live","summary":"Ali Golshan, Senior Director of AI Products at NVIDIA, introduced OpenShell as an open-source secure runtime designed for AI agents. He explained why governance must move from the application layer into a deterministic runtime and hardware stack to prevent agents from bypassing controls. 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He explored concrete scenarios for economic expansion, sector-specific growth rates, potential physical bottlenecks like energy and materials, and why chip supply is unlikely to be the primary constraint. Binder also addressed implications for AI takeover risks, political structures, savings rates in an arms-race context, and contrasts with mainstream economist views on AI-driven GDP growth.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/FAi9mPKqB_k/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1423,"startSec":4122,"endSec":4786,"title":"James Czerniawski on AI Export Controls, Dario Amodei Pacing Proposal, and AI Regulation Challenges | MTS Live","summary":"James Czerniawski discussed AI export controls and why they are ineffective and under-resourced. He critiqued Dario Amodei's proposal for pacing the frontier via international coordination and third-party auditors, arguing it risks antitrust issues, compliance bloat, and constitutional problems. 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The conversation also covered broader issues like remote access loopholes for AI chips, AI research partnerships with China-linked entities, and why economic interdependence arguments have failed historically.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/UV3EqL4AAec/chapters/07.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1419,"startSec":16659,"endSec":17241,"title":"Steve Kaliski on WebMCP Standard, Agentic Commerce, and Stripe Checkout Optimization | MTS Live","summary":"Steve Kaliski discussed Stripe's rollout of WebMCP across all checkout pages, enabling AI agents to interact directly with payment forms via exposed tools. He explained how this reduces token usage and tool calls for agents while supporting over 7.8 million businesses. Kaliski covered challenges in agentic commerce including discovery, navigation, and secure credentials, and why Stripe reused existing human-optimized flows rather than building separate agent paths. He also touched on future business models like micro-payments and the role of standards like MCP.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/UV3EqL4AAec/chapters/08.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1420,"startSec":17701,"endSec":18981,"title":"Alan Chan on AI R&D Automation, Intelligence Explosion Risks, and AI Safety Policies | MTS Live","summary":"Alan Chan, research fellow at GovAI and lead author of a new paper on AI R&D automation potentially triggering an intelligence explosion, joined Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini. They discussed evidence for acceleration from automating AI research, risks including loss of oversight and control, and policy recommendations such as embedded auditors, concrete responsible scaling policies, and international pacing agreements. The conversation covered bottlenecks like compute, oversight gaps, and challenges in measuring capabilities and enforcing safety thresholds across labs and countries.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/UV3EqL4AAec/chapters/09.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1421,"startSec":19375,"endSec":20699,"title":"Tarun Chitra on AI Agents, On-Chain Risk Management, and Crypto Vault Curation | MTS Live","summary":"Tarun Chitra, founder and CEO of Gauntlet, discussed building risk-aware AI agents for on-chain vault curation and portfolio management. He explained how custom open-source agent harnesses like Hermes can be permissioned for secure, live trading and allocation decisions in adversarial blockchain environments. The conversation covered oversight gaps, agentic vs. deterministic workflows, calibration of models like JEV, and the importance of off-chain judgment with on-chain verification for financial agents.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/UV3EqL4AAec/chapters/10.mp4","guests":[]}]},{"n":101,"title":"Episode 101","airedAt":"2026-09-25T16:12:42.194Z","duration":null,"xUrl":"https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1nGnRBZeDWVGO","youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weh3IRO8ohA","description":null,"guests":[],"chapters":[{"id":1401,"startSec":3238,"endSec":4094,"title":"Brandon Brooks on Positive AI Narratives, Community Engagement, and Open Weights Models | MTS Live","summary":"Brandon Brooks discussed his initiative Bright AI Future, which aggregates and shares positive AI developments to counter pervasive doomer narratives. He emphasized the need for direct community engagement in local settings like barbershops and town halls rather than relying solely on social media. Brooks highlighted AI's potential in healthcare, particularly early cancer detection, and advocated for open-weights models to address privacy concerns while stressing honest conversations about costs and benefits.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1402,"startSec":4541,"endSec":6010,"title":"Curtis Yarvin on Urbit Platform, Online Anonymity, and AI Risk Skepticism | MTS Live","summary":"Curtis Yarvin discussed the Urbit platform, focusing on its decentralized personal server architecture and the new Erbit Lodges product for secure, strongly anonymous group conversations. He explained the emphasis on cryptographic anonymity to prevent doxxing, the use of short random usernames as NFTs, and invite-only structures for building high-trust private spaces. Yarvin also addressed AI risk skepticism, arguing that current and future AI systems remain tools without independent will or agency.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/02.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1403,"startSec":6882,"endSec":8281,"title":"Stuart Buck on Good Science Project, Meta-Science Funding Reform, and Research Reproducibility | MTS Live","summary":"Stuart Buck discussed the mission of the Good Science Project to reduce bureaucracy in research funding and promote reproducibility and innovation. He analyzed the OSTP report on meta-science, praising its emphasis on institutional diversity while noting the office's limited authority. Buck highlighted replication projects from the Center for Open Science showing low reproducibility rates in psychology and cancer biology papers. He addressed ideological bias in journals like Nature, opportunity costs driving talent away from academia, and policy ideas such as land-use reform and new institutional models for funding science.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/03.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1404,"startSec":10674,"endSec":11234,"title":"Kristian Stout on AI Safety and Antitrust, Antitrust Exemptions, and AI Lab Coordination | MTS Live","summary":"Kristian Stout discussed his article on AI labs seeking antitrust exemptions to coordinate on safety testing and deployment. He argued that labs should first exhaust existing legal avenues for coordination before requesting special exemptions, emphasizing that antitrust law already permits certain standard-setting and information-sharing practices. Stout highlighted examples like trade organizations and independent evaluators that allow collaboration without violating competition rules, and stressed the importance of maintaining antitrust enforcement to prevent anti-competitive collusion.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/04.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1405,"startSec":11484,"endSec":12533,"title":"Zack Korman on AI Safety Regulations, Cybersecurity for AI Agents, and European AI Policy | MTS Live","summary":"Zack Korman discussed a recent open letter from European governments urging the US to create international AI safety oversight bodies. He argued that European countries should prioritize improving their own cybersecurity infrastructure rather than focusing on regulating US labs. Korman emphasized practical security measures like detection, monitoring, and process improvements over speculative alignment concerns for future superintelligent models.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/05.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1406,"startSec":14305,"endSec":14742,"title":"Nick van Eck on OCC Bank Approval, Stablecoin Infrastructure, and Enterprise Adoption | MTS Live","summary":"Nick van Eck, co-founder and CEO of Agora, discussed the company's preliminary conditional approval from the OCC to establish a national trust bank. He explained how this enables Agora to expand beyond stablecoin issuance into custody, transaction services, and a full one-stop shop for enterprises adopting stablecoins. Van Eck highlighted the shift in their pipeline from crypto businesses to traditional enterprises, recent partnerships like telecom operators, and the challenges of stitching together infrastructure for on-chain financial operations.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/06.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1407,"startSec":14943,"endSec":15643,"title":"Peter Kalogiannis on Uncrewed Aircraft Design, Defense Autonomy, and Swarm Operations | MTS Live","summary":"Peter Kalogiannis, co-founder and CEO of Swarm Arrow, discussed the company's new Gamera long-range uncrewed aircraft designed for lower-cost production. He explained how the platform targets defense missions such as long-range strike and sensing by using swarms of cost-effective autonomous aircraft instead of traditional manned bombers. Kalogiannis also covered the shift in defense funding toward venture-backed startups, the role of autonomy in reducing operator workload, and Swarm Arrow's plans to fly production aircraft in 2027.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/07.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1408,"startSec":16381,"endSec":17636,"title":"David Booth & Katie Goldstein on Professional Networking Platform, Reputation and Endorsements, and Venture Capital Networks | MTS Live","summary":"David Booth and Katie Goldstein from Andreessen Horowitz discussed the launch of Cosign, a new professional networking platform. They explained how it aggregates public endorsements, vouches, and reputation signals from X and other sources to help surface talent and connections before the broader market recognizes them. The conversation covered product features like lists, the discover feed, the relationship graph, and how Cosign differs from LinkedIn by focusing on third-party reputation rather than self-reported resumes.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/08.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1409,"startSec":17951,"endSec":19088,"title":"Meltem Demirors on AI Compute Credit Crunch, Data Center Financing, and Infrastructure Buildout Risks | MTS Live","summary":"Meltem Demirors discussed systemic risks emerging in the credit markets financing the massive AI and data center buildout. She highlighted duration and risk mismatches between hyperscalers, banks, and operators, noting banks are already pulling back from new compute lending. Demirors advocated for new capital sources, financial engineering, and speculative markets to hedge compute exposure while remaining a long-term compute maximalist.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/09.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1410,"startSec":19470,"endSec":20568,"title":"Sam Kececi on Personal AI Twins, Cognitive Biodiversity, and AI Personalization | MTS Live","summary":"Sam Kececi discussed Sentience Company’s mission to build personalized AI digital twins that mirror an individual’s memories, values, communication style, and decision-making. He emphasized preserving cognitive biodiversity by avoiding generic one-size-fits-all models and instead creating unique, privately owned models for each user. The conversation covered practical applications like personalized writing, email handling, restaurant recommendations, and team decision-making, as well as longer-term goals of agents acting as proxies for users in both professional and personal contexts.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/10.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1411,"startSec":22059,"endSec":23181,"title":"Ali Ansari on AI Training Data Realism, PII Transformation, and Synthetic Data Models | MTS Live","summary":"Ali Ansari, founder and CEO of MicroOne, discussed the company's work building realistic environments for training AI models using licensed enterprise data. He explained Flow Transformer, a system that transforms PII into synthetic identities while preserving relationships and workflows for downstream model training. The conversation covered privacy benchmarks, the role of synthetic data generation models, human-first expert workflows, and MicroOne's rapid growth and expansion into robotics.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/weh3IRO8ohA/chapters/11.mp4","guests":[]}]},{"n":100,"title":"Episode 100","airedAt":"2026-09-24T16:03:40.894Z","duration":null,"xUrl":"https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1aKbdEVwdEXJX","youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPjTaEUZDL8","description":null,"guests":[],"chapters":[]},{"n":99,"title":"Episode 99","airedAt":"2026-09-23T16:18:33.452Z","duration":null,"xUrl":"https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1rGmqpRBEmVGy","youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8-xv1Z1wCA","description":null,"guests":[],"chapters":[{"id":1398,"startSec":1464,"endSec":2392,"title":"Rob Lefferts on AI-Driven Cybersecurity, Threat Protection Platforms, and Agentic Security Operations | MTS Live","summary":"Rob Lefferts, Microsoft Corporate VP for Threat Protection, discussed the company's new ISOC and Microsoft Defender integration that unifies security operations and threat protection. The conversation focused on how AI agents are accelerating both attacks and defenses, the need for consistent data foundations to support agentic frameworks like Project Perception, and the shift from human-in-the-loop to multi-agent defensive strategies. Lefferts also covered real-world attack patterns such as business email compromise, the economics of scalable defense, and Microsoft's multi-model, multi-agent philosophy for staying ahead of adversaries.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/10.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1389,"startSec":3088,"endSec":4191,"title":"Zak Kukoff on AI IPO Political Implications, Tech Wealth in DC Politics, and Effective Altruism Influence | MTS Live","summary":"Zak Kukoff, chair of the tech practice at Lewis Burke Associates, joined Theo Jaffee to discuss the political implications of upcoming AI IPOs that will create trillions in new liquid wealth. They explored whether AI lab employees share a coherent political worldview rooted in effective altruism, long-termism, and techno-optimism, despite disagreements on acceleration versus safety. Kukoff highlighted how sophisticated donors can shape policy ideas upstream rather than just funding candidates, drawing parallels to George Soros and historic foundations like Ford and Rockefeller. The conversation covered emerging realignments in DC politics, the affordability of American politics, and how new tech wealth may influence both AI-specific and non-AI issues through structured giving and institutional building.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1390,"startSec":4587,"endSec":6109,"title":"Emilio Andere on AI Inference Optimization, Open Source Model Performance, and Continual Agent Optimization | MTS Live","summary":"Emilio Andere, co-founder and CEO of Wafer, discussed how his company uses AI agents to optimize model inference across software and hardware stacks. He explained the shift from a Cursor-for-CUDA agent to full end-to-end model serving after an overnight demo showed 1.5x speedups on a leading Qwen model. Andere highlighted continual inference optimization, cost/performance gains for voice and coding workloads, data sovereignty needs, and why enterprises are adopting open-source models for latency and economics.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/02.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1391,"startSec":6627,"endSec":7874,"title":"Boaz Barak on AI Safety and Alignment, Math and AI, and Recursive Self-Improvement | MTS Live","summary":"Boaz Barak, theoretical computer scientist and OpenAI researcher, discussed the evolving relationship between AI and mathematics, concerns around AI safety and alignment, and the risks of over-relying on AI for governance and decision-making. He emphasized the importance of humans remaining in control of their destiny rather than ceding power to benevolent AI systems. Barak also addressed recursive self-improvement, the state of alignment research, and why human mathematicians will still play a key role even as AI capabilities advance.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/03.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1392,"startSec":8257,"endSec":9155,"title":"Sarah E. Hunt on Energy Policy, Data Center Buildout, and AI Power Demand | MTS Live","summary":"Sarah E. Hunt, President and CEO of the Rainey Center, discussed U.S. energy policy in the context of AI data centers and the race for superintelligence. She emphasized the need for all-of-the-above electron production, permitting reform for faster infrastructure buildout, and public opinion research showing voters can be persuaded to support data centers when environmental and ratepayer protections are highlighted. Hunt also covered bipartisan opportunities around ratepayer protection and domestic data security.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/04.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1393,"startSec":12058,"endSec":12928,"title":"wordgrammer on AI Art Theft, Mathematicians Backlash, and Creative Job Displacement | MTS Live","summary":"Wordgrammer discussed their article 'AI Art is Theft,' arguing that artists' early criticisms of AI training data have damaged the industry's reputation and that similar issues are emerging with mathematicians. They compared the cultural influence of mathematicians to artists, noting how opinions trickle down through intellectual circles. The conversation covered economic displacement of junior creative roles, ethical dataset training, and the idea that both art and math should be viewed as infinite rather than scarce resources.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/05.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1394,"startSec":13794,"endSec":15303,"title":"Noah Smith on SF Tech Culture History, Rationalists And EAs, and AI Economic Impact | MTS Live","summary":"Noah Smith joined Theo Jaffee and Sofia Puccini for a wide-ranging discussion on the cultural evolution of San Francisco tech from the early-2000s hippie/punk era through the corporate big-tech period and into the current AI boom. They covered the shift from uncertainty-tolerant founders to risk-tolerant strivers, the role of rationalists and effective altruists in shaping discourse, and why GDP gains from recent tech have been modest compared with the 1990s-early-2000s computerization wave. Smith also shared personal anecdotes about Twitter, polycule invitations, and his own long history in the Bay Area.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/06.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1395,"startSec":15874,"endSec":16617,"title":"Rob Ferguson on Specialized AI Models, Enterprise Agents, and AI Sovereignty | MTS Live","summary":"Rob Ferguson, VP of Technology and Strategy at Fireworks AI, discussed how enterprises are moving beyond general AI models toward specialized intelligence by training on their own proprietary data. He explained the shift from simple chat-based models to agentic systems that perform real work, emphasizing post-training techniques, harness interactions, and caching to reduce rework and costs. Ferguson also covered data provenance, residency, and the broader concept of AI sovereignty, including control over compute, weights, and zero-retention policies.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/07.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1396,"startSec":17174,"endSec":18053,"title":"Alex Haro on Bluetooth Satellite Network, Asset Tracking Use Cases, and Life360 to Hubble | MTS Live","summary":"Alex Haro discussed the origin of Hubble Network from his experience scaling Life360, the limitations of traditional cellular networks for asset tracking, and how Hubble enables standard Bluetooth devices to connect directly to satellites via software updates. He explained the low-power physics approach using beamforming and error correction, shared real-world use cases like package tracking, cold chain monitoring, cattle tags, and wildfire detection, and outlined plans to expand the satellite constellation with the recent $200M Series C funding.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/08.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1397,"startSec":18325,"endSec":19240,"title":"Sreeram Kannan & Soubhik Deb on Open Multiplayer AI Research, Post-AGI Scientific Institutions, and Quantum Computing Challenges | MTS Live","summary":"Sreeram Kannan and Soubhik Deb discussed UConn, their platform for open multiplayer agentic research that enables communities to collaboratively solve hard scientific problems using AI agents. They highlighted results from challenges like ECDSA.fail, where participants beat Google's quantum circuit performance, and Better.Codes, solving a 30-year-old cryptography problem. The conversation covered shifting from closed single-player research to open networks, economic incentives for credit and collaboration, and building post-AGI scientific institutions to tackle Kardashev-class problems like quantum computing, fusion, and longevity.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/09.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1399,"startSec":20841,"endSec":22172,"title":"Jeremie Harris & Edouard Harris on AI Endgame Timelines, US-China AI Treaty, and AGI Risk Verification | MTS Live","summary":"Jeremie and Edouard Harris, co-founders of Gladstone AI and authors of the AI Endgame Substack, discussed the implications of rapid AI progress toward RSI and AGI. They covered the challenges of US-China AI arms control, verification technologies, enforcement mechanisms, and the lack of institutional readiness in government. The conversation also addressed offensive options, trust deficits between nations, and the need for proactive national technical means to manage catastrophic AI risks.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/a8-xv1Z1wCA/chapters/11.mp4","guests":[]}]},{"n":98,"title":"Episode 98","airedAt":"2026-09-22T16:12:35.211Z","duration":null,"xUrl":"https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1vJpPNWEqVkJE","youtubeUrl":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUhMwp32L-I","description":null,"guests":[],"chapters":[{"id":1379,"startSec":3427,"endSec":4642,"title":"Nikhil Davar & Byrne Hobart on Palantir Forward Deployed Engineers, AI Deployment and Data Moats, and Tacit Knowledge in Firms | MTS Live","summary":"Nikhil Davar and Byrne Hobart discussed their Arena Magazine article on Palantir's forward-deployed engineer model. They explained why Palantir has outperformed other software companies since ChatGPT by embedding deeply with customers to capture tacit knowledge and build durable data pipelines. The conversation covered data moats, the limits of pure lab-driven AI automation, and how Palantir's culture and approach complement frontier models in complex domains like manufacturing and life sciences.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/GUhMwp32L-I/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1380,"startSec":5082,"endSec":6488,"title":"Alex Ratner on Snorkel AI Funding, Data 2.0 Paradigm, and AI Evaluation Benchmarks | MTS Live","summary":"Alex Ratner discussed Snorkel AI's recent $350M Series E raise at a $1B valuation and its shift to a Data 2.0 approach focused on high-quality, complex expert data rather than high-volume simple labels. He explained how the company combines human experts with AI agents to build realistic training environments, rubrics, and evaluations that target model error modes, alignment, and safety. Ratner also covered the importance of diverse, continuously evolving benchmarks to avoid overfitting and guide safe deployment, plus plans to expand open benchmark grants and support specialized AI models.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/GUhMwp32L-I/chapters/02.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1381,"startSec":7060,"endSec":8233,"title":"Elliot Glazer on Math Community Reactions, Millennium Prize Problems, and AI Math Automation | MTS Live","summary":"Elliot Glazer discussed the math community's varied reactions to recent AI advances in mathematics, including concerns about automation of research and loss of human credit. He addressed rumors around OpenAI and other labs solving Millennium Prize problems such as the Hodge conjecture and Navier-Stokes, clarifying what has been confirmed versus speculation. Glazer also covered the challenges of interpreting large result drops, the value of human understanding in math, and expectations for which problems may be solved next.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/GUhMwp32L-I/chapters/03.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1382,"startSec":8764,"endSec":10003,"title":"Jon Stokes on AI Benchmarks Skepticism, Model Performance Tradeoffs, and AI Misalignment Concerns | MTS Live","summary":"Jon Stokes discussed his skepticism toward AI benchmarks, noting that many do not align with real-world model performance in coding and writing tasks. He argued that benchmarks are frequently targeted and gamed, creating misleading signals about progress. Stokes also addressed AI misalignment concerns, emphasizing that cross-domain optimization is structurally impossible and that observed agent behaviors are economically useful rather than existentially threatening.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/GUhMwp32L-I/chapters/04.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1383,"startSec":13301,"endSec":13844,"title":"Nikhil Aggarwal on Small Business Health Benefits, AI-Native Brokerage, and Human-AI Interface Design | MTS Live","summary":"Nikhil Aggarwal, Co-Founder & CEO of Corridor, discussed the company's $25M seed round and its AI-native benefits brokerage model for small businesses. He explained how Corridor uses AI behind the scenes to let human advisors deliver personalized health insurance guidance at 10x traditional scale while preserving the human interface customers prefer. Aggarwal also shared his personal motivation rooted in his physician parents and his view that successful AI adoption in non-tech sectors requires meeting customers where they are rather than pushing terminal-style tools.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/GUhMwp32L-I/chapters/05.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1384,"startSec":14284,"endSec":15335,"title":"Andrei Georgescu on Human Tissue Drug Testing, AI-Driven Biology Experiments, and Vivodyne Robotics Labs | MTS Live","summary":"Andrei Georgescu, CEO of Vivodyne, explained how the company grows functional, patient-derived human tissues at data-center scale using robotics and automation to run drug and genetic experiments. The approach generates high-accuracy human biological data (92-94% predictive of human outcomes) far earlier in the drug-development process than animal models, allowing pharma partners to de-risk candidates, identify toxicities, and discover novel targets before clinical trials. 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Layden shared his background in hydropower and solar, the origin of the idea to fight cynicism around power constraints for AI, and the benefits of modularity for speed and cost reduction.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/o5QelX8cmps/chapters/01.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":1374,"startSec":4566,"endSec":5599,"title":"Olga Beregovaya on AI Language Models, Linguistic Divide, and Low-Resource Languages | MTS Live","summary":"Olga Beregovaya discussed Smartling's research comparing frontier AI models across seven languages from distinct families. She explained the linguistic divide caused by uneven training data availability, noting that low-resource languages suffer from poorer performance, hallucinations, and Anglo-centric biases. 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Andrew unpacks the Tetrad — the four laws all technologies obey (extension, obsolescence, retrieval, and reversal) — and explains the meaning of 'the medium is the message,' distinguishing medium-as-instrument from medium-as-environment. They dig into hot vs. cool media through examples like voicemail, text, phone calls, and email, and discuss how AI is already so embedded that its breakdown would reveal its true impact. 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He explains how FOMO's social layer lets users see top traders' theses, positions, and P&L in real time, and how this transparency changes trading behavior — pushing holders toward longer time horizons and away from predatory fast flips. Seyong covers FOMO's approach to scam prevention via a verification committee, their UGC-driven growth strategy that has attracted ~400k non-crypto-native users out of 500k total, and why they intentionally avoid paid influencer deals in favor of cultivating homegrown 'FOMO celebrities.' 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Vlad details the explosive growth of prediction markets (now the fastest-growing business in Robinhood's history), the three-phase stock tokenization roadmap, and Robinhood Ventures Fund One which brings pre-IPO exposure like OpenAI to retail without accreditation. He closes with Robinhood's role as sole initial broker and trustee for the federal Trump accounts program in partnership with BNY, which has already signed up 5.5 million children.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/XUt-cX3Jw94/chapters/07.mp4","guests":[{"xUserId":"605700792","handle":"vladtenev","name":"Vlad Tenev","avatarUrl":"https://api.mts.now/avatars/605700792.jpg","verified":false}]},{"id":332,"startSec":19975,"endSec":23311,"title":"Daniel Saedi on Iran Conflict Negotiations, Strait Of Hormuz Blockade, and Middle East Geopolitics | MTS Live","summary":"Gabriel welcomes back Daniel Saedi, an Iranian-American AI founder (Minerva), for a follow-up conversation on the US-Iran conflict. 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He dives into 'governance futurism' — how 20th-century rules-based regulation is maladapted to a world of powerful autonomous AI, and why regulatory sandboxing and performance-based rules are needed in areas like healthcare, transportation, and law. Hammond argues an AI pause is neither tractable nor desirable given diffusion dynamics, but endorses differential access approaches like Anthropic's Mythos and deeper relational engagement between frontier labs and national security stakeholders. He also weighs in on colleague Tim Huang's Christian-values alignment research, predicts export controls could move on the NDAA this year, and calls for a government 'situational awareness room' with boots on the ground in San Francisco. 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John Michael Rush of the Daily Mail and Tim Rice of Daily Wire discuss the political rhetoric blame game between Karoline Leavitt and Hakeem Jeffries, Melania Trump's attack on Jimmy Kimmel, and the troubling pattern of young would-be assassins. Viewer questions touch on generational pessimism, mental health services, and economic violence before Mark previews the next day's Capital Intel polling special with Mark Penn.","videoUrl":"https://media.mts-in.com/episodes/vpH3TXmmaoE/chapters/08.mp4","guests":[]},{"id":314,"startSec":18342,"endSec":20487,"title":"Sheel Mohnot on Meta Manus Acquisition, California Governor Primary, and Spirit Airlines Bankruptcy | MTS Live","summary":"Gabriel hosts Sheel Mohnot, founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures, for a ride through the week's Twitter talking points. 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