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(00:00) Introduction

(00:01) Changing Cyber Threat Landscape

(00:02) Speeding Up Patch Delivery

(00:04) Shifting Power To Defenders

(00:10) Preparing For Quantum Computing

(00:13) Uncovering AI Discovered Vulnerabilities

(00:25) Mission Driven Cybersecurity Leadership

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The Supply Chain Threat to American AI Startups | Anastasios Angelopoulos Aug 06, 2026

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Anastasios Angelopoulos joins MTS to discuss the latest frontier model releases from Chinese labs, price-performance dynamics on the Arena leaderboards, and the business models behind American open source AI.

MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:01:05) First Impressions of Qwen 3.8

(00:07:22) How Qwen Performs on Math

(00:10:30) US Economics of Low AI Pricing

(00:17:29) Duration of Anthropic Dominance

Fixing the American Housing Market | Opendoor Team Aug 05, 2026

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Kaz Nejatian, Vu Tran, and Yan Guo join MTS in three back-to-back interviews to discuss turning around a public company, building an AI-first corporate culture, and scaling real estate market making using proprietary data and machine learning.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:01) Status Of Opendoor Turnaround

(00:04) Opendoor's Shift To Software

(00:05) Speed As Core Moat

(00:10) Becoming An AI Pilled Company

(00:29) Joining Opendoor From Meta

(00:46) Career Journey And Returning

ColdCard Bitcoin Hack EXPLAINED | Haseeb Qureshi Aug 04, 2026

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Haseeb Qureshi joins MTS to discuss the economics of frontier-level intelligence as open models drop in price, the changing dynamics of cybersecurity as AI makes vulnerability discovery faster and cheaper, and how AI-native startups are building fundamentally different organizational structures.

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MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:06) Securing Infrastructure in AI Era

(00:12) Impact on Cash-Strapped Crypto Foundations

(00:15) Legacy Hardware and Infrastructure Risks

(00:17) Government Role in Cyber Defense

(00:21) Relying on Foreign Open-Source Models

(00:23) Economic Impact of Cheaper AI

The Math Behind AGI: Ray Kurzweil’s Timeline & AI Safety Risks | John Clark Levin Aug 04, 2026

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John Clark Levin joins MTS to discuss AGI timelines and Ray Kurzweil's 2029 prediction, AI benchmarking and the need for better assessments of long time horizon tasks, and the role of chain of thought in enabling mathematical breakthroughs.

MTS is a live news and interview show covering technology, business, politics, and culture as it happens.

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Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com

Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(01:20) What Kurzweil Technologies Does

(02:37) The Gaps in Benchmarks

(05:28) Predicting AI Decades Early

(09:09) AI Breakthroughs in Mathematics

(16:07) AI Safety and Risks

(20:44) Essential Unprioritized AI Fields

(24:02) Is 2029 AGI On Track?

Why AI Writing Still Doesn't Pass | Karina Nguyen Aug 03, 2026

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Karina Nguyen joins MTS to discuss why post-training is an art rather than a science, how reward hacking is reshaping benchmark design at frontier labs, and why AI writing still sounds robotic to most readers.

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Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:01) Why Found ThoughtfulLab

(00:03) Art of Post-Training

(00:05) Shaping Claude Character

(00:09) Humanizing Model Crafting

(00:13) Post-Training Bench Learnings

(00:17) Rise of Reward Hacking

(00:26) Challenge of AI Writing

Is AI Ruining Art? Or Saving It? | Cole Lee (@Covacut) | MTS Live Jul 31, 2026

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Cole Lee joins MTS to discuss how AI has raised the premium on creativity and taste, why the rise of techfluencers is reshaping brand marketing, and what parts of the creative process AI can never replace.

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Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com

Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:02:11) Why Creativity Is a Premium

(00:03:06) Using AI in Video Editing

(00:06:00) What AI Can Never Replace

(00:10:00) The Rise of the Techfluencer

(00:14:14) Why Artists Are Anti-AI

(00:17:40) Advice for Tech Communities

(00:20:30) Future Predictions for Creators

Demonstrating Home Robotics Live on MTS | Tony Zhao Jul 31, 2026

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Tony Zhao joins MTS to discuss achieving high reliability in unseen homes with Sunday's Act Two preview, scaling community-driven data collection through memory developers, and running full policy inference directly on device.

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Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com

Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com

Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:26) Building Full Stack Robotics

(03:38) Personalizing Household Zero-Shot Learning

(05:55) Scaling Memory Developer Communities

(13:39) Deploying On-Device Policy Inference

(16:28) System One vs System Two

(19:27) Demoing Memo Live and Unscripted

(26:28) Strengthening US Hardware Supply Chains

Are AI Labs Losing Control? | Zvi Mowshowitz on the OpenAI Sandbox Incident Jul 30, 2026

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Zvi Mowshowitz joins MTS to discuss the Pacing the Frontier open letter, the OpenAI Hugging Face incident and its alignment implications, and when AI R&D automation should trigger concern. He also covers government technical capacity for AI governance, Casey's funding and leadership challenges, and model welfare insights from recent releases.

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Kong - The AI connectivity platform. Connect APIs, LLMs, agents, and systems with serious security and governance. https://konghq.com

Blitzy - Autonomous software development for enterprise codebases. Ship 5x faster. https://blitzy.com

Merge - OpenAI, Dropbox, and Ramp use Merge to get AI to production faster. https://merge.dev/mts

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Timestamps:

(00:00:00) Introduction

(00:00:54) Importance of "Pacing the Frontier"

(00:04:18) Metrics for an AI Pause

(00:08:53) OpenAI Hugging Face Incident Impact

(00:13:49) Can Employees Identify Threats?

(00:15:56) Improving Alignment After Incidents

(00:17:53) Developing Government Technical Prowess

(00:21:59) Future of Government AI Oversight

(00:23:15) Insights on AI Model Welfare

AI Breaking Cryptography: What Really Happened | Sean Cheetham Jul 30, 2026

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Sean Cheetham joins MTS to discuss how AI is changing cryptanalysis, the timeline and preparation for post-quantum cryptography, and the importance of building agile cryptographic systems.

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