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AI Podcasts

January 5, 2026

Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose LLMs to specialized coding agents that operate on the entire codebase rather than isolated snippets.
  2. Audit your current stack for agentic readiness. Prioritize tools that integrate with Gemini 3 or similar high-reasoning models to automate repetitive pull requests.
  3. Code is the substrate of the digital world. If you control the means of AI code generation, you control the speed of innovation for every other industry.
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January 5, 2026

Claude Agent SDK [Full Workshop] — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from "Chat-as-Interface" to "Computer-as-Interface" where models operate directly on file systems.
  2. Replace your complex list of fifty tools with a single Bash tool and a secure sandbox.
  3. The winners in the agent race will not build the best prompts. They will build the best infrastructure for models to execute code.
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December 31, 2025

Infinity, Paradoxes, Gödel Incompleteness & the Mathematical Multiverse | Lex Fridman Podcast #488

Lex Fridman

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The move from a singular "Universe" view to a "Multiverse" perspective mirrors the transition from centralized monoliths to fragmented, interoperable ecosystems.
  2. Build systems that fail gracefully when hitting Gödelian limits.
  3. Truth is a vast ocean while proof is a small boat. Your roadmap must account for the reality that your system will eventually encounter truths it cannot verify.
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December 31, 2025

AI in 2026: 3 Predictions For What’s To Come (a16z Big Ideas)

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: Outcome-Based Intelligence. We are moving from AI as a Service to Results as a Service where software value is tied to revenue generation rather than seat licenses.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Verticalize the Data. Build in sectors with non-public outcome data to create a compounding moat that resists commoditization by foundation models.
  3. The winners of 2026 will be those who use AI to solve core human needs for connection and discovery while building defensible, data-rich business models.
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December 31, 2025

AutoGrad Changed Everything (Not Transformers) [Dr. Jeff Beck]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Moving from "Big Model" monoliths to "Lots of Little Models" where distributed Bayesian assets represent specific physical objects.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize "Object-Centered" architectures that track uncertainty. This allows robots to "phone a friend" when encountering novel data.
  3. The LLM era is hitting a wall of implicit representation. The next 12 months belong to those building explicit, causal world models grounded in physics rather than language.
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December 31, 2025

[State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The move from "bigger is better" to "smarter is cheaper" as token efficiency becomes the primary metric for agentic success.
  2. Prioritize building on models that demonstrate high performance on "graph walk" evals to ensure your long-context applications actually work.
  3. Utilitarian and efficient models that prioritize task completion over cheery personality will dominate the developer market.
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December 31, 2025

[State of Evals] LMArena's $100M Vision — Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The transition from static benchmarks to live human-in-the-loop evaluation. As models saturate fixed tests, the only remaining signal is subjective human preference at scale.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor secret model drops on Arena to spot frontier capabilities before official releases. This provides a lead time advantage for builders choosing their tech stack.
  3. The Bottom Line: Arena is the new kingmaker. If you are building AI products, their expert-tier data is the most reliable map for navigating the frontier.
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December 31, 2025

[State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The move from small models to medium models (15B to 70B) suggests that reasoning capability is outstripping the desire for low-latency edge deployment.
  2. Implement instruction-following re-rankers to prune your context window. This prevents the model from getting confused by irrelevant data.
  3. Stop building toys. The next year belongs to those who can build full agentic systems that handle billions of tokens without losing the plot.
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December 31, 2025

[NeurIPS Best Paper] 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL — Kevin Wang et al, Princeton

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The wall between RL and self-supervised learning is crumbling, leading to a unified "representation-first" approach to AI.
  2. Swap your reward-heavy objectives for contrastive representation learning to access deeper, more stable architectures.
  3. If you aren't planning for RL models with 100x the current depth, you're building for the past.
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Crypto Podcasts

February 10, 2026

2 Million TPS and Decentralized? Has the Zero Blockchain Cracked Scalability?

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Institutional capital is increasingly seeking permissionless, global markets, but existing blockchain infrastructure struggles to meet this demand without compromising core decentralized values. Zero attempts to bridge this gap by delivering enterprise-grade throughput on a broadly decentralized network.
  2. Evaluate Zero's technical papers (QMDB, FAFO, Zero OS) and upcoming mainnet launch. Builders should consider its multi-VM and Linux binary compatibility for deploying high-performance applications, especially in payments and global markets.
  3. Zero represents a bold attempt to solve the blockchain scalability trilemma through fundamental architectural breakthroughs and strategic institutional partnerships. Its success could redefine what's possible for decentralized finance and global markets over the next 6-12 months, making it a critical project to monitor.
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February 11, 2026

Crypto’s Legal Lines, MegaETH Launched But Delayed TGE, and LayerZero's Bombshell

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from a "build it and they will come" mentality to a highly intentional, ecosystem-first approach, recognizing that raw tech specs alone don't guarantee adoption. This is coupled with a critical legal battle to define developer liability, which will dictate the future of open-source crypto innovation.
  2. Investigate projects that prioritize real-world utility and long-term ecosystem health over short-term token hype. For builders, focus on creating "10x" user experiences that justify new infrastructure, while understanding the evolving legal framework for non-custodial software.
  3. The next 6-12 months will see a clearer delineation of regulatory boundaries for developers and a competitive race among high-performance chains to onboard institutional and consumer applications. Success hinges on a blend of technical superiority, strategic ecosystem cultivation, and legal clarity.
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February 11, 2026

How I Called 2026's Biggest Rally | Vincent Delaurd

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The US economy undergoes a "Great Reset" towards higher nominal growth, rates, and deficits, underpinned by surging gig economy tax collections and unprecedented AI capital expenditure, creating a disconnect with conventional sentiment.
  2. Overweight international assets, particularly Latin America and Europe, to diversify from over-concentrated US equity.
  3. The confluence of hidden nominal growth, aggressive fiscal policy, and AI-driven capex points to a sustained inflationary environment and asset price appreciation through 2026, challenging recessionary fears and demanding a re-evaluation of portfolio allocations.
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February 10, 2026

This Is the Layer Making RWAs Finally Interoperable

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The DeFi era is consolidating. Institutional RWA adoption will drive isolated, high-volume activity on private chains. LeiFi builds the connective tissue to bridge these environments.
  2. Builders and investors should prioritize infrastructure that abstracts multi-chain complexity and provides robust distribution for tokenized assets. Investigate LeiFi's new checkout product and intent system.
  3. Exponential fragmentation is crypto's reality for the next decade. LeiFi's meta-aggregation, virtual machine, and intent system are foundational rails for institutional capital and RWA liquidity.
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February 10, 2026

This Lesser Known Type of Stablecoin Is Better Than USDC & USDT - Michael Svoboda

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Diversify stablecoin holdings beyond regulated fiat-backed options. Allocate a portion to decentralized, crypto-backed stablecoins to gain uncorrelated yield, mitigate counterparty risk, and preserve property rights, especially for crypto-native operations or users in restrictive jurisdictions.
  2. The increasing weaponization of traditional finance and demand for censorship resistance is driving a technical reality: the need for truly sovereign, code-governed financial primitives. This pushes capital towards crypto-native stablecoins that offer an opt-out from traditional financial control.
  3. Regulated stablecoins will become commoditized rails for traditional finance, while truly decentralized stablecoins will solidify their niche as the preferred choice for those prioritizing censorship resistance, self-custody, and organic DeFi yield. Understanding this bifurcation is crucial for positioning portfolios and building infrastructure that aligns with crypto's core ethos.
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February 9, 2026

Seby Rubino: Mortgages You NEVER Repay? Resi Labs, AI Real Estate Appraisals, Tokenized Assets | 80

Ventura Labs

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The real estate industry is undergoing a fundamental re-architecture, moving from centralized, opaque, and debt-heavy models to decentralized, transparent, and equity-driven tokenized platforms. This shift, powered by AI and blockchain, will redefine property access and wealth creation.
  2. Investigate tokenization platforms that leverage AI for appraisal and inspection, particularly those offering yield-bearing real estate tokens. Consider strategies that use rental income to service interest on borrowed capital, effectively creating leveraged exposure to appreciating assets without traditional mortgage obligations.
  3. The convergence of AI and tokenization is not just optimizing real estate; it is creating entirely new financial primitives. Understanding Resi's full-stack approach—intelligence, infrastructure, and financial services—is crucial for positioning yourself in a market that could soon offer "mortgages you don't pay back" and unlock unprecedented liquidity for property owners.
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