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AI Podcasts

January 18, 2026

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Strategic Pivot: The transition from "Understanding-First" science to "Prediction-First" engineering. We are building artifacts that work perfectly but remain theoretically opaque.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit your AI stack for "Leaky Abstractions." Don't assume a model's reasoning capabilities in one domain will hold when the underlying causal structure changes.
  3. AGI isn't just an engineering milestone; it's a philosophical wager. If the brain isn't a computer, we are building a very powerful helicopter, not a synthetic human.
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January 18, 2026

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The pivot from "Understanding-First" science to "Prediction-First" engineering creates massive technical liability in our models.
  2. Audit your AI implementations for "Leaky Abstractions" where the model fails to account for physical edge cases.
  3. High-performance automation is not the same as sentient reasoning. Builders who recognize this distinction will avoid the cultural illusion of inevitable AGI.
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January 17, 2026

Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from deterministic software to agentic networks. Companies are moving from rigid workflows to fluid systems that plan and execute autonomously.
  2. Build an internal LLM gateway early. Centralizing model routing and cost monitoring allows you to swap providers as the model horse race changes without refactoring your product.
  3. AI is not just a feature but a fundamental restructuring of the corporate cost center. Efficiency gains allow a static headcount of 300 engineers to support a business growing 5x.
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January 14, 2026

Identity for AI Agents - Patrick Riley & Carlos Galan, Auth0

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from interactive chat to autonomous "task runners" requires a shift from session-based identity to delegated, long-term authorization.
  2. Implement the Token Vault pattern to decouple your agent logic from the mess of OAuth token refreshing.
  3. In the next year, the "Agentic Web" will live or die by trust. If you cannot prove an agent is authorized to act, it is just a fancy toy.
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January 15, 2026

AI and the Future of Warfare with US Under Secretary of War Emil Michael

No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: The Great Re-Shoring. National security now depends on domestic production of critical minerals and semiconductors.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Build for Scale. Prioritize manufacturing competence over pure software features to win government contracts.
  3. The Bottom Line: The defense industrial base is being rebuilt from the ground up. The next decade belongs to the builders who can merge Silicon Valley speed with the Pentagon's scale.
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January 15, 2026

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from software eating the world to AI reinventing the computer means every existing market cap is a floor.
  2. Prioritize the non-fungible creator by providing monetization tools that bypass legacy gatekeepers.
  3. We are entering a period of asymmetric payoffs where the art of picking original thinkers matters more than historical data.
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January 13, 2026

Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle | Lex Fridman Podcast #489

Lex Fridman

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: Biological Sovereignty. As global systems destabilize, the Amazon remains the most critical piece of biological infrastructure on the planet.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Support Jungle Keepers. Direct capital to organizations that convert loggers into rangers to secure land concessions.
  3. The Amazon is a finite asset under active siege. Protecting it requires a blend of primitive survival skills and high-tech surveillance over the next 18 months.
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January 12, 2026

Jensen Huang says robots will have human capabilities this year! The Robots at CES Had.. Other Plans

Turing Post

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: As generative AI masters simulation, the physical world becomes a high-fidelity playground for software.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Invest in the "brain" layer rather than the "limb" layer. Software that can generalize across different hardware forms will capture the most value.
  3. The next decade belongs to embodied AI that reasons in real time. If you are waiting for the hardware to look perfect before paying attention, you will miss the moment the software takes over the physical world.
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January 12, 2026

Your MCP Server is Bad (and you should feel bad) - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: Context as Product. We are moving from raw data transport to opinionated context delivery.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prune your endpoints. Remove any tool that requires more than one step to achieve a business result.
  3. The Bottom Line: The winners of the agentic era will be those who build the best Agentic Interface Guidelines.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 20, 2026

LIVE: MegaETH, Pump, NYSE | 0xResearch

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Migration: Value is moving from base layers to applications that own the end-user relationship. This transition favors integrated platforms over modular protocols.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor platforms that successfully integrate vertical services like Phantom or Pump.fun. These Everything Apps are the most likely candidates for sustainable revenue growth.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next six months will favor teams that prioritize revenue and user stickiness over speculative token launches.
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January 19, 2026

Why Grayscale Sees ATHs Before Q3, With ETH Outperforming: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The erosion of central bank independence turns fiscal debt into a marketing campaign for hard-capped digital assets.
  2. Accumulate Ethereum and top-tier smart contract platforms that offer staking yields before the $40 trillion advised wealth pool begins its structural rotation.
  3. The next year will be defined by the transition from speculative retail trading to structural institutional accumulation driven by a global flight from debasing fiat.
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January 16, 2026

Claude Code, Stablecoin Adoption, and 2026 Trends | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI-driven productivity is meeting institutional stablecoin adoption to create hyper-efficient financial services.
  2. Integrate AI-assisted coding into every department to maintain a lean headcount.
  3. Success in the next cycle requires the grit to build through the quiet periods and the agility to utilize AI for rapid product iteration.
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January 14, 2026

$250M & $500M M&A talks, Neo finance category update, lots of action in DC ft. Polygon

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The rotation from metals to equities then crypto is accelerating as fiat debasement becomes the only political option.
  2. Prioritize "exogenous yield" protocols that bridge real-world revenue on-chain to capture non-inflationary returns.
  3. The next 12 months will see crypto move from an isolated casino to the primary infrastructure for the global financial system.
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January 13, 2026

Providing Token holders with Real Economic Rights with SOAR | Thomas Curry

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The unification of rights. The industry is moving away from "vague utility" toward hard-coded economic claims that institutional capital can actually model.
  2. Audit your portfolio for "Seniority." Prioritize projects that establish legal or smart-contract-based links to the underlying business entity rather than just "community" vibes.
  3. Real economic rights are the only way to attract the next wave of capital. If a token doesn't represent a claim on value, it is just a meme with extra steps.
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January 14, 2026

Hash Rate - Ep 152 - Loosh Subnet 78

Hash Rate Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "World Models" to "Reasoning Models" marks the end of the LLM-as-chatbot era. Capital is migrating toward systems that prioritize deterministic safety over raw statistical probability.
  2. Integrate deterministic ontologies into your agentic workflows to stop hallucinations at the architectural level. Use graph databases to provide structure that vector search lacks.
  3. The winner of the robotics race won't have the best motors. They will have the most relatable, ethically sound "brain" that humans actually trust in their homes.
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