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.…