Samo Burja joins MTS to discuss global fertility trends, advances in AI hardware like Cerebras, and which institutions are prepared for technological transformation.-- https://x.com/SamoBurja -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/u...
Jun 05, 2026•30 min
Dr. Mike Israetel joins MTS to discuss the spectrum of artificial consciousness, strategic health optimization for high-performance work schedules, and how emerging genetic engineering technologies will redefine human vanity.-- https://x.com/misraetel -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4...
Jun 04, 2026•1 hr 1 min
Jordan Sanders and David Hansen join MTS to discuss Westmag's $11 million seed round, the state of drone motor and robot actuator manufacturing in the US, and building industrial capacity for the robotics industry. -- https://x.com/boxcardavid https://x.com/jordansanders0 -- 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://op...
Jun 03, 2026•15 min
Sreeram Kannan and Gautham Anant join MTS to discuss coordination technologies for human-agent interaction in a post-AGI world, their work reverse engineering quantum computing solutions to improve Bitcoin security timelines, and building open platforms for agentic science. -- https://x.com/sreeramkannan https://x.com/bbuddha_xyz -- 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 | ...
Jun 03, 2026•14 min
Matt Dratch joins MTS to discuss the AI shadow output gap, how artificial intelligence may create unmeasured productivity gains in the economy, and the implications for monetary policy and inflation measurement. -- https://x.com/DratchCap -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW...
Jun 03, 2026•49 min
Max Rose joins MTS to discuss Bernie Sanders' proposal to tax AI companies into a sovereign wealth fund, why AI resembles past industrial revolutions more than the social media era, and what a real access agenda for the technology should look like. -- https://x.com/MaxRose4NY -- 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:...
Jun 03, 2026•29 min
Steven Sinofsky joins MTS to discuss the ongoing shift from centralized cloud infrastructure to localized device compute, how token cost structures and consumer hardware memory constraints influence the design of next-generation operating systems, and recent industry architecture announcements alongside the historical evolution of graphics processing unit integration.-- https://x.com/stevesi -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happe...
Jun 02, 2026•29 min
Dean W. Ball joins MTS to discuss AI safety legislation including Illinois SB 315, the challenges of building effective auditing ecosystems, and what human meaning and purpose might look like in a world with superintelligence. Go and query the notes from this episode here: https://notes.granola.ai/t/1da13399-b52e-488f-b66e-eae86e3a11ee-009c2hma . Granola is the official note-taking partner of MTS. -- https://x.com/deanwball -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, ...
May 31, 2026•29 min
Peter Wildeford joins MTS to discuss AI compute supply constraints, US export controls on semiconductors, and the path to recursive self-improvement in AI systems. Go and query the notes from this episode here: https://notes.granola.ai/t/7997d21c-4eb9-4f76-85e4-95be820e094f-009c2hma . Granola is the official note-taking partner of MTS. -- https://x.com/peterwildeford -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. Follow MTS: X | htt...
May 29, 2026•29 min
Jordan Schachtel joins MTS to discuss foreign-linked activism targeting American data centers, the case against preemptive UBI for AI, and how technological progress historically improves employment and quality of life. Go and query the notes from this episode here: https://notes.granola.ai/t/4b6a494d-0e58-4966-9e62-71f5eba28f0a-009c2hma . Granola is the official note-taking partner of MTS. -- https://x.com/JordanSchachtel -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, p...
May 29, 2026•26 min
Balaji Srinivasan and Steven Glinert join MTS to discuss the network state concept, semiconductor supply chain realities, and the need for allied coalitions in manufacturing. They examine how geography no longer dictates culture and law, China's production capacity advantage in autonomous warfare materials, and strategies for decentralizing Silicon Valley globally. Go and query the notes from this episode here: https://notes.granola.ai/t/dbbf07cb-f5c9-43c5-b0db-18b1387dacc0-008umkv4 Granola is t...
May 29, 2026•55 min
Neil Chilson joins MTS to discuss export controls, AI diffusion strategies, and China's approach to chip development and open source models.-- https://x.com/neil_chilson -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id189108...
May 29, 2026•16 min
Avi Schiffman joins MTS to discuss what real-world Friend pendant usage reveals about AI companionship, why he thinks the category will follow the normalization arc of dating apps, and why AI memory and personality still barely work. -- https://x.com/AviSchiffmann -- 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://open.spoti...
May 28, 2026•13 min
Brendan Carr joins MTS to discuss the FCC's EchoStar spectrum deal, how new satellite spectrum enables direct-to-cell connectivity, and the agency's two-track approach to drone policy. He also covers the new robocall enforcement strategy and the path to 6G. -- https://x.com/BrendanCarrFCC -- 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 Spot...
May 28, 2026•18 min
Rie Yano joins MTS to discuss Palantir's joint venture strategy in Japan, the country's bifurcated risk culture, and how geopolitical tensions are shaping tech adoption. Zach Corman joins to discuss separating hype from reality in AI-powered vulnerability discovery, supply chain attack dynamics, and the information asymmetry problem facing cybersecurity buyers. -- https://x.com/rieglobe -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. F...
May 28, 2026•14 min
Gil Feig and Shensi Ding join MTS to discuss building connective infrastructure for production AI, multi-model routing strategies, and enterprise security requirements for AI adoption. -- https://x.com/shensi https://x.com/GilFeig -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM...
May 27, 2026•25 min
Tim Hwang joins MTS to discuss the Pope's recent AI encyclical, why AI alignment is better understood as applied moral philosophy than science, and how religious frameworks might offer more efficient tools for steering model behavior. -- https://x.com/timhwang -- 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://open.spotify.c...
May 27, 2026•33 min
Cremieux joins MTS to discuss Eli Lilly's gene therapy for LDL cholesterol reduction, emerging vaccines for shingles and Epstein-Barr virus, and the acceleration of pharma progress driven by new therapeutic modalities and China's rising contribution to global drug development. -- https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil -- 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.c...
May 27, 2026•28 min
Lee Robinson joins MTS to discuss uranium enrichment capacity, nuclear fuel supply chains for advanced and traditional reactors, and the path to US energy independence. -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088...
May 24, 2026•13 min
Christopher Koopman joins MTS to discuss the NRC's shift from 50-year bottleneck to industry partner, why hyperscaler demand is driving the nuclear renaissance, and what restoring domestic uranium enrichment will require. -- https://x.com/ckoopman -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNN...
May 24, 2026•10 min
Kayvon Beykpour joins MTS to discuss token efficiency in engineering organizations, AI-powered code review systems, and building tools for code-based understanding at scale. -- https://x.com/kayvz -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM Apple | https://podcasts.apple....
May 24, 2026•15 min
Max Marchione joins MTS to discuss the retatrutide Phase 3 trial results and what nearly one-third body weight loss means for the future of obesity treatment. He covers the growing menu of GLP-1 options, the tradeoffs between fat loss and muscle preservation, and what a post-obesity world might mean for culture, dating, and looksmaxing. He also addresses the longer arc toward genomic medicine as the next major therapeutic frontier.-- https://x.com/maxmarchione -- MTS is a live news and interview...
May 23, 2026•14 min
Robin Hanson joins MTS to discuss the Minnesota law criminalizing prediction markets and what drove it, his long-term vision for decision markets advising everything from corporate leadership to personal dating choices, and why sports gambling dominates trading volume on platforms like Kalshi and Polymarket. He also reflects on his broader intellectual work, including the Elephant in the Brain, grabby aliens, and the Age of Em. -- https://x.com/robinhanson -- MTS is a live news and interview sho...
May 22, 2026•32 min
Logan Kilpatrick joins MTS to discuss what made Google I/O's Gemini Omni launch compelling, how Antigravity compares to Claude Code and Codex, and where Google Search is headed as users shift toward longer, multimodal queries. He also covers the case for Android XR glasses, the Gemini Spark agent, and why AI video editing tools could reshape content creation.-- https://x.com/OfficialLoganK -- MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens...
May 22, 2026•34 min
Kong CEO Aghi Marietti joins MTS to discuss why connectivity infrastructure matters as much as models, how the internet is shifting from pixels to APIs, and how enterprises will govern AI at the traffic layer. -- https://x.com/sonicaghi -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6L...
May 21, 2026•30 min
Taylor Lorenz joins MTS to discuss the James Murdoch acquisition of Vox Media, the collapsing business model for digital news in a Google Zero world, and why young people have given up on traditional financial milestones. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens. https://x.com/TaylorLorenz Follow MTS: X | https://twitter.c...
May 21, 2026•22 min
State of the Timeline 20th May 2026 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM Apple | https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mts/id1891088763 Substack | https://mtslive.substack.com/ --Brought to you by:Granola - The AI notepad. Try ...
May 21, 2026•42 min
Ara Kharazian joins MTS to discuss business AI adoption patterns, the dynamics of model competition, and what Ramp's spend data reveals about software market transformations. -- https://x.com/arakharazian -- 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://open.spotify.com/show/4HUNNmV1pjV7CW6Lphm1rM Apple | https://podcast...
May 20, 2026•45 min
Guillaume Verdon joins MTS to discuss thermodynamic computing, the energy efficiency advantages of probabilistic hardware, and applications in robotics and edge AI. Verdon explains how Xtropic's TSUs complement existing GPU infrastructure and enable new approaches to physical intelligence. -- https://x.com/GillVerd -- 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.you...
May 20, 2026•53 min
The best moments from MTS on May 19: Cerebras running Kimi K 2.6 at 1,000 tokens per second and the shift from training to inference, Ramp Economics data showing SaaSpocalypse is not yet in business spend patterns, and Anthropic surpassing OpenAI in adoption while token-based pricing remains under 1% of SaaS spend. Timecodes: - (00:00) Introduction - (01:19) Cerebras Director James Wang on Cerebras going public, inference architecture, wafer-scale clusters - (08:59) Monetary Matters on bond yiel...
May 20, 2026•59 min
