Andreessen Horowitz partner Erik Torenberg announced on X Monday that his firm, in conjunction with some other investors, is backing a news venture called MTS, which stands for “Monitoring the Situation” (because that’s a meme). It will apparently cover a mix of technology, finance, geopolitics, and culture, and will do so, it seems, within a video streaming module on X.
Introducing MTS:
The first timeline-native news network that's always on.
Monitoring tech, finance, geopolitics and culture — as it happens.
We are Live Now. pic.twitter.com/E2W5zkBZxD
— MTS (@MTSlive) April 20, 2026
So far, it’s a lot like a Twitch stream featuring a16z partners, or people who are sympathetic to the vaguely libertarian, vaguely MAGA, pro-tech ideology espoused on the various a16z-affiliated YouTube videos (which are also podcasts).
MTS seems to be deliberately unpolished, kind of like if scrolling the X timeline were a cable news channel. Much of what’s been broadcast so far consists of hosts like Torenberg and Theo Jaffee reading X posts and news articles, and then talking about them.
There are also guest segments, which probably shouldn’t qualify as interviews. For instance, watch the clips MTS has posted of the anarcho-capitalist secessionist crypto guy Balaji Srinivasan:
.@balajis's thoughts on Clavicular and looksmaxxing:
-"Bro science" is going to be the next major market; will transition from a joke to reality
– We currently have Ozempic for weight loss, but we'll soon get Ozempic for longevity, Ozempic for cognition, etc. https://t.co/fhk1heNUaX pic.twitter.com/v3Peda89uR— MTS (@MTSlive) April 20, 2026
Much of what’s onscreen at any given time during Srinivasan’s appearance is a view of Srinivasan scrolling through his own X posts. Throughout the clip above—which is about the looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular—Srinivasan is trying to type on his phone and talk at the same time. So instead of the normal, over-caffeinated venture capitalist speech pattern, Srinivasan speaks in elliptical half-thoughts before he finally looks up from his phone and makes his point.
.@pmarca defines the concept of 'Randomonium', a term adopted by CNN's first president to describe the fluid, chaotic mix of content that filled the early 24-hour schedule.
"At any point in time, there is something happening in the world that is the most amazing, interesting,… https://t.co/fzOA8M82rx pic.twitter.com/VGVKk3JLiP
— MTS (@MTSlive) April 20, 2026
A16z co-founder Marc Andreessen also appeared on MTS, and compared it to “Randomonium” a concept he read about in a book about CNN. CNN’s goal, he says, was originally to be a fragmented, but persistent feed of anchors talking about whatever the current all-consuming or momentous world event happens to be.
In another telling clip, Andreessen frames MTS as a answer to all of our existence in the type of dystopia Marshall McLuhan called the global village—a relentless, multimedia hellscape of constant, universal scrutiny with no privacy for anyone.
In Torenberg’s announcement post he describes the world as “an incredibly complex and erratic place,” and that figuring out “what the hell is happening and why” is “the occupation of MTS.”
