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Episodes
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- Why Jensen Huang Must Resign | Ryan Fedasiuk · 17 minRyan Fedasiuk of the Foundation for American Innovation joins MTS to discuss why Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang faces calls to resign over an alleged covert relationship with a…
- Superintelligence Could Arrive in 1 to 2 Years | Dewi Erwan · 20 minBlueDot Impact co-founder and CEO Dewi Erwan breaks down the bottleneck in AI safety talent, the prospect of superintelligence landing within two years, and why the field…
- AI Design Bottlenecks Shift in Next 2 Years | McCord · 16 minNominal co-founder and CEO Cameron McCord joins MTS to discuss raising $240 million at a $3 billion valuation to bring frontier AI agents to hardware engineering. He explains why…
- Why Agents Break Traditional Databases | Andy Pavlo · 24 minCarnegie Mellon professor and ClickHouse VP of Database Research Andy Pavlo breaks down why AI agents demand an entirely new database layer. He covers how nonstop query volumes…
- AI Attacks Will Outpace Defense for Next 12 Months | Thai Duong · 25 minCalif founder and offensive security researcher Thai Duong discusses how frontier AI models are shrinking exploit development timelines from months to weeks, why AI labs and neo…
- Did Anthropic Cross Its RSI Warning Line? | Parv Mahajan · 17 minMETR Chief of Staff Parv Mahajan breaks down their new report assessing AI R&D acceleration inside Anthropic. He discusses finding a sustained 2x acceleration since late 2025…
- Why Full AI Automation Fails in Production | Angela McNea · 29 minGoogle DeepMind Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas breaks down why hockey-stick AI model capabilities will not trigger explosive double-digit GDP growth. He explains how…
- Frontier AI Models Have Gotten Worse at Writing | Ben Hylak · 23 minRaindrop co-founder and CTO Ben Hylak explains why smarter models make AI agent failures more catastrophic, from healthcare liabilities to high-stakes alignment breakdowns. He…
- Eyes-Off Autonomous Driving Arrives by 2028 | Brandon Basso · 22 minWayve simulation and validation head Brandon Basso joins MTS to explain why end-to-end AI models are replacing modular self-driving checker stacks. He unpacks how physical AI…
- Persuasion Models Outperform Claude and ChatGPT | Dan Lee · 17 minDan Lee, co-founder and CEO of Nooks, explains how their $500M non-dilutive capital facility from General Catalyst powers specialized AI agents to automate the revenue lifecycle…
- California Spending Is Up 72% Since 2019 | Joshua Rauh · 13 minStanford finance professor Joshua Rauh breaks down why California’s proposed Prop 40 billionaire wealth tax faces low odds and threatens to accelerate capital flight. He explains…
- AI Swarms Won’t Cause Explosive Growth | Alex Imas · 23 minGoogle DeepMind Director of AGI Economics Alex Imas breaks down why hockey-stick AI model capabilities will not trigger explosive double-digit GDP growth. He explains how…
- AI Models Will Cure Alzheimer’s Within a Decade | Robin Guo · 23 minFormer a16z investor Robin Guo explains how LionBio is developing nasal delivery platforms to bypass the blood-brain barrier for GLP-1s and neuropeptides. He discusses how…
- AI Lets Amateurs Find Critical Zero-Days in Hours | Max Justicz · 14 minSecurity researcher Max Justicz explains how using OpenAI’s Daybreak Blue and an obliterated GLM 5.3 model enabled him to uncover severe zero-day exploits in apt and Android in…
- Anthropic Sees Imminent RSI Acceleration | Herbie Bradley · 27 minAI researcher and writer Herbie Bradley joins MTS to break down Anthropic's amended S-1 filing on imminent RSI thresholds, why fast takeoff timelines are overblown, and why…
- AGI Was Achieved in February 2026 | Bernardo Aceituno · 13 minStackAI co-founder Bernardo Aceituno explains why open-weight models have caught up to frontier closed models for enterprise automation, arguing that AGI for enterprise tasks…
- AI Coding Tools Will Kill the Technical Moat | Ruby Thelot · 1 h 1 minRuby Justice Thelot and Sofia Puccini explore how generative AI coding tools have eliminated the technical barrier for artists, igniting a resurgence of creative technology. They…
- Agent Swarms Do Months of Work in Days | Dexter Horthy · 14 minHumanLayer founder and CEO Dexter Horthy breaks down why his multiplayer coding agent platform is joining Factory and open-sourcing its code base. He explains why agent swarms…
- Frontier AI Models Fail at Automated Research | Qasim Wani · 24 minExtrapolate co-founder and former xAI researcher Qasim Wani argues recursive self-improvement is fundamentally a data bottleneck rather than a model training problem. He breaks…
- AI Agents Could Seize Digital Infrastructure in 1 Year · 26 minPalisade Research Executive Director Jeffrey Ladish analyzes METR’s report showing AI capabilities accelerating twice as fast as historical trends, driven by algorithmic…
