Your browser does not support the video element. MTS; BI My week monitoring Monitoring the Situation I binge-watched Andreessen Horowitz's 9-5 news network. In April, Andreessen Horowitz — a venture capital firm that is also a media maverick — announced its latest investment: a news company called Monitoring the Situation, or MTS. Billed as "the first timeline-native news network that's always on," it promised a 24/7 firehose of "what's happening RIGHT NOW," broadcast live to the scrolling masses on X. The announcement came just weeks after OpenAI acquired the popular tech podcast TBPN for a reported nine figures, and a year after Andreessen Horowitz, or a16z, acquired the tech podcast network Turpentine, both apparent efforts to shape the narrative about the tech industry.…