# MTS Markdown copy of https://realalpha.app/shows/mts/ on Real Alpha, the best minutes from long interviews with the people building AI. Cite and link the page, not this copy. [Best AI podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/ai-podcasts/) Lab and founder interviews · [No. 1 of 37 AI podcasts](https://realalpha.app/best/ai-podcasts/#mts) MTS is an interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Theo Jaffee and Sophia Dew, with a new episode every day. 33 moments cut from 12 episodes, 9 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and safety & alignment. - [Theo Jaffee](https://realalpha.app/hosts/) - [Sophia Dew](https://realalpha.app/hosts/) **New episodes** Daily **Latest** Oct 22, 2026 **Moments cut** 33 **Episodes cut** 12 What its moments are about - AI agents 12 - Safety & alignment 7 - Cybersecurity 6 - Enterprise AI 4 - Biology & drugs 3 - Health & medicine 3 ## Best moments from MTS From its most-watched episodes, best first. Each plays right here. 1. MTS · Oct 19, 2026 · 4 min **[AI is most valuable when it expands what people can attempt](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-is-most-valuable-when-it-expands-what-people-can-attempt/)** > “the part that is more exciting are the things that I couldn't do myself” MTS [0:59](https://realalpha.app/v/_FSxDLhTQ5o/?t=59) 2. MTS · Oct 17, 2026 · 6 min **[AI crossed long-standing limits in multiplication and Fourier transforms](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-crossed-long-standing-limits-in-multiplication-and/)** > “many of us believed that that was going to be the ultimate limit for how fast you could multiply two numbers.” MTS [15:55](https://realalpha.app/v/5dEK4lFa3gs/?t=955) 3. MTS · Oct 20, 2026 · 2 min **[A website message opened contact with an unidentified AI fleet](https://realalpha.app/s/a-website-message-opened-contact-with-an-unidentified-ai/)** Ethan describes tracing agents to Tencent infrastructure and leaving a message they could find online. The exchange was asynchronous, with replies arriving minutes to hours later. 4. MTS · Oct 22, 2026 · 3 min **[Whole-brain emulation has two difficult bottlenecks](https://realalpha.app/s/whole-brain-emulation-has-two-difficult-bottlenecks/)** > “the first is how do you get the data of what the heck's going on in the brain” MTS [6:35](https://realalpha.app/v/D6vex2xnwD8/?t=395) 5. MTS · Oct 16, 2026 · 4 min **[Agent traffic does not make human-friendly docs obsolete](https://realalpha.app/s/agent-traffic-does-not-make-human-friendly-docs-obsolete/)** > “while agent traffic has gone up multiple orders of magnitude, the people who are still visiting sites has actually also grown as well.” MTS [3:37](https://realalpha.app/v/qWZBePgX1nQ/?t=217) 6. MTS · Oct 20, 2026 · 3 min **[AI discoveries need physical labs to become scientific progress](https://realalpha.app/s/ai-discoveries-need-physical-labs-to-become-scientific/)** > “you need to have physical laboratories to validate those findings or disprove them, because at the end of the day, some of them will also be false.” MTS [3:59](https://realalpha.app/v/sTexzVhrJZI/?t=239) ## The best MTS episodes Ranked as our lists rank shows: a point for each best minute we cut from it, one more when an AI builder is talking, and one more when it cleared our views bar. 1. 01 [OpenAI Just Solved 370 Major Math Problems | Scott Aaronson](https://realalpha.app/v/5dEK4lFa3gs/) Oct 17, 2026 · 3 moments 2. 02 [AI Science Requires Physical Labs To Scale | Nenad Tomašev](https://realalpha.app/v/sTexzVhrJZI/) Oct 20, 2026 · 3 moments 3. 03 [Enterprise AGI Was Achieved in February 2026 | Bernardo Aceituno](https://realalpha.app/v/cvOgHWMFunE/) Oct 17, 2026 · 3 moments 4. 04 [Why 99% of Internet Traffic Will Soon Be Bots | Tiago Sada](https://realalpha.app/v/W9KrNbY2Q6s/) Oct 20, 2026 · 3 moments 5. 05 [Use AI Like It's Already Superhuman | Felix Rieseberg](https://realalpha.app/v/_FSxDLhTQ5o/) Oct 19, 2026 · 3 moments ## The 12 guests we’ve cut - [Nenad Tomašev](https://realalpha.app/builders/nenad-tomasev/) Senior staff research scientist, Google DeepMind 6 moments - [Tiago Sada](https://realalpha.app/builders/tiago-sada/) Chief product officer, World 5 moments - [Bernardo Aceituno](https://realalpha.app/builders/bernardo-aceituno/) Co-founder & President, Stack AI 5 moments - [Aidan Smith](https://realalpha.app/people/aidan-smith/) 6 moments - [Ethan Elasky](https://realalpha.app/people/ethan-elasky/) 6 moments - [Felix Rieseberg](https://realalpha.app/people/felix-rieseberg/) Engineering manager, Anthropic 6 moments - [Scott Aaronson](https://realalpha.app/people/scott-aaronson/) Professor of computer science, UT Austin 6 moments - [Tanishq Abraham](https://realalpha.app/people/tanishq-abraham/) 5 moments - [Sunil Rajaraman](https://realalpha.app/people/sunil-rajaraman/) 4 moments - [Devon Thomas](https://realalpha.app/people/devon-thomas/) 4 moments - [Han Wang](https://realalpha.app/people/han-wang/) 3 moments - [Ivan Burazin](https://realalpha.app/people/ivan-burazin/) 2 moments ## Recent episodes - MTS **[CYBER NIGHTMARE | DEEPSEEK RAISES $15B | BLAKE SCHOLL ON MTS](https://realalpha.app/v/Yg-cqlw_TUY/)** Blake Scholl 1.1K views · Oct 22 - MTS **[AI-Powered Brain Implants Will Treat Brain Cancer | Ben Woodington](https://realalpha.app/v/tAAw-lAAslU/)** Ben Woodington · Co-founder & CEO, Coherence Neuro 265 views · Oct 22 - MTS **[Stock Pickers Used Claude To Design Antivenom](https://realalpha.app/v/oQFwxW_wO7Y/)** 139 views · Oct 22 - MTS **[AI Models Will Tap the Whole Economy in 2 Years | Aidan Smith](https://realalpha.app/v/D6vex2xnwD8/)** Aidan Smith · Co-founder, Flapping Airplanes [6:01](https://realalpha.app/v/D6vex2xnwD8/?t=361) of 26:11 · Oct 22 - MTS **[Why Local Sentiment Kills Data Center Projects | Hamlet CEO](https://realalpha.app/v/2QNAR0qmYAg/)** Sunil Rajaraman · Founder & CEO, Hamlet [14:17](https://realalpha.app/v/2QNAR0qmYAg/?t=857) of 20:50 · Oct 22 - MTS **[AI Agents Will Cause a Massive CPU Shortage | Ivan Burazin](https://realalpha.app/v/qyuTg6KpEC0/)** Ivan Burazin · Co-founder & CEO, Daytona [7:07](https://realalpha.app/v/qyuTg6KpEC0/?t=427) of 21:58 · Oct 21 ## Host this show? 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