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AI Will Automate 50% of Digital Work in Years | Brendan Foody Nov 11, 2026

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Mercor co-founder and co-CEO Brendan Foody discusses the company’s $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation and why post-training evaluations have become the primary bottleneck for frontier AI development. He outlines why reinforcement learning quickly saturates benchmarks, explains why he is “AGI long, but ASI short,” and breaks down why models have stalled at becoming virtual coworkers. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:59) Deploying Mercor’s Series D Capital

(02:32) RSI Timelines and Saturation

(05:46) Enterprise Post-Training Adoption

(06:53) Spending More on Inference Than Salaries

(09:18) The Frontier of Complex Tasks

(10:33) Why Virtual Coworkers Have Stalled

(11:59) Will Self-Improving Models Replace Mercor

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Note: This podcast is not investment, legal, or tax advice, and is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only. Hosts and guests may hold positions in the companies and securities discussed; do your own research before acting on anything you hear.

Why Jensen Huang Must Resign | Ryan Fedasiuk Nov 10, 2026

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Ryan 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 suspected Chinese intelligence asset. They break down Nvidia’s alleged efforts to thwart a Commerce Department investigation into Megaspeed, corporate governance risks at a $4 trillion company, and legislative battles over tracking AI hardware exported to Asia. Check out our sponsor Lovable: https://lovable.dev. Turn ideas into software people love.

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