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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.

How Japan Is Using AI to Solve Its Biggest Problem | MTS Live May 18, 2026

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Rie Yano joins MTS to discuss why Japan is becoming a hub for physical AI development, the cultural factors behind Japan's enthusiastic adoption of AI and robotics, and how US startups are partnering with Japanese manufacturers to build hardware at scale.--https://x.com/rieglobe

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(02:25) Why a16z Opened in Japan(08:27) Japan's Aging Population and AI(11:17) Japanese Cultural Attitudes Toward Robots(15:46) US-Japan Startup Partnerships(19:49) When to Work With Coral Capital

What the Cerebras IPO Actually Means for AI | MTS Live May 18, 2026

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Steven Glinert joins MTS to discuss the Cerebras IPO and wafer scale architecture, semiconductor sovereignty and compute ownership for middle powers, and AI-designed chips for physical intelligence applications.

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Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction(00:57) Cerebras IPO and Wafer Scale Architecture(07:30) Yield Engineering and Manufacturing Challenges(13:45) Inference Workloads and Latency Bottlenecks(18:20) Semiconductor Sovereignty and Middle Powers(26:15) Taiwan, TSMC, and Geographic Concentration(34:50) AI-Designed Chips and Physical Intelligence

Why Tech's "Jobs Optimists" Won't Talk About the Near Term | MTS Live May 15, 2026

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Jasmine Sun joins MTS to discuss AI's impact on labor markets, the need for expanded safety nets during technological transitions, and how policy can address near-term workforce disruption.

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Timestamps:

(00:00) Introduction
(01:16) Writing About the Permanent Underclass
(08:00) Whose Responsibility Is the Vision
(16:45) How to Reassure People
(24:30) Highest Leverage Policy Ideas
(29:15) Geographic Segmentation of Job Loss

Ethereum’s Vitalik on Self-Agency, Ex NASA physicist says Australia is chopped, and Post-AI’s Permanent Underclass | Best Of 5/14/26 May 15, 2026

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The best moments from MTS on May 14: Vitalik Buterin on sanctuary technology and crypto's role in a changing world, Casey Handmer on Energy Autarky, and the economic collapse of nations, Jasmine Sun on AI labor disruption and the permanent underclass meme, and Dr. Topol and Dr. Slotkin on autonomous vehicles as a public health breakthrough, Steven Glinert on Cerebras IPO, wafer scale chips, Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing.

Timecodes:

(00:00) Introduction

(00:34) Vitalik Buterin on sanctuary technology, autopilot to agency, crypto's future

(17:25) Casey Handmer on Terraform Industries, synthetic fuel, solving climate change

(34:55) Dr. Topol and Dr. Slotkin on autonomous vehicles, road deaths, public health

(50:14) Jasmine Sun on permanent underclass meme, AI jobs disruption, transitional friction

(01:03:45) Steven Ovadia on Cerebras IPO, wafer scale chips, Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing

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Vitalik Buterin on Why Centralized Safety Comes at the Cost of Your Agency | MTS Live May 15, 2026

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Vitalik Buterin joins MTS to discuss sanctuary technologies, the evolution of identity over a decade, and how crypto enables agency and safety without centralized control. He reflects on moving from autopilot to active decision-making, the importance of learning by doing, and why decentralized systems offer a different vision of safety than trusting centralized powers.--https://x.com/VitalikButerin

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Timestamps:(00:00) Introduction(01:18) How Identity Changes Over a Decade(12:42) Why Sanctuary Technologies(20:15) Learning Actively vs AI Dependence

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Hugging Face's Clem Delangue on Open Source AI and the LLM Bubble | MTS Live May 14, 2026

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Clem Delangue joins MTS to discuss the global open source AI landscape, the current large language model bubble, and the future of consumer robotics.

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Timestamps:
(00:00) Introduction
(01:11) US vs. China Open Source Dynamics
(02:53) The Large Language Model Bubble
(05:53) Safety and Open Source Model Restrictions
(13:00) International AI Regulation and Agreements
(13:56) Robotics and Open Source Development
(17:44) Hugging Face vs. GitHub Architecture

He Recovered $400K in Lost Bitcoin Using Claude | MTS Live May 14, 2026

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Soup joins MTS to discuss recovering lost Bitcoin from 2013 using Claude, how AI tools helped decrypt an old wallet file, and the importance of seed phrase security.

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