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AI Podcasts

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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January 12, 2026

OpenAI + @Temporalio : Building Durable, Production Ready Agents - Cornelia Davis, Temporal

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from "Agent as a Script" to "Agent as a Durable Service" where state management is handled by the infrastructure.
  2. Wrap your existing API tools in the `activity_as_tool` function to gain automatic retries and execution history.
  3. Reliability is the only moat in the agentic economy. If your agent cannot survive a server restart during a three-day task, it is not ready for the enterprise.
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January 13, 2026

How Ladder Became #1 Strength Training App

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The move from fragmented content libraries to integrated health systems where AI synthesizes biomarkers and movement.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Construct internal LLM tools to categorize qualitative feedback. This turns thousands of raw reviews into a precise roadmap.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building a $100M ARR consumer app requires mastery of both growth loops and product retention. Solve for the daily habit to win the long game.
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January 13, 2026

Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose AI to specialized application layers. As foundation models commoditize, value migrates to the "fat tail" of human-centric complexity.
  2. Prioritize building or investing in "DNA of the future" companies that incumbents must eventually acquire to survive. Focus on winning the "point of attack" by staying deep in the technical details.
  3. We are in a unique market where demand growth justifies high valuations. Success over the next year depends on identifying founders who are the absolute best in the world at one specific thing.
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January 13, 2026

It's Time To Build

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Infrastructure Invisibility. As core technologies become background noise, value moves from the pipes to the unique experiences built on top of them.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Reject Mediocrity. Audit your product for average features and replace them with high-conviction improvements that competitors are too lazy to attempt.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building is the only way to ensure the future happens. If you do not create the next version of reality, you are stuck living in an outdated vision.
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January 13, 2026

Nothing’s Carl Pei on Building a $1B Smartphone Company and Why He Thinks About Death Every Week

The Generalist

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from hardware specs to emotional hardware where brand identity and OS-native AI become the primary moats.
  2. Prioritize arbitrage opportunities in marketing by finding underpriced attention on platforms like TikTok before they become crowded.
  3. Success in mature markets requires a Genghis Khan method: be a talent scout, stay open-minded to global supply chains, and use design to win the emotional battle for the consumer's pocket.
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January 12, 2026

Nvidia CES 2026

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from centralized cloud training to distributed local inference creates a massive demand for high-bandwidth storage and custom CPUs.
  2. Audit your technical roadmap to prioritize local agentic workflows that reduce latency and data privacy risks.
  3. The next 12 months will favor hardware that enables physical AI and local autonomy. Owning the compute stack is becoming a competitive necessity for builders who want to move faster than the cloud allows.
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Crypto Podcasts

May 9, 2025

Can Ethereum Scale The L1? | Weekly Roundup

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Efficiency ≠ Centralization: Coordinated, rapid bug fixes are signs of an active, aligned ecosystem, not inherent centralization.
  2. L1 Utility is Paramount: Both Ethereum and Solana ecosystems depend on their base layers being genuinely useful and economically viable to support L2s and broader application development.
  3. Performance Drives Decentralization: Contrary to the traditional trilemma, the most performant L1 (attracting the most activity and thus revenue for validators) will likely become the most decentralized due to stronger economic incentives for participation.
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May 6, 2025

Ex Jane Street Veteran's Journey To Crypto | Thomas Uhm

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. JitoSol's Institutional Edge: JitoSol’s design—autonomy, yield-bearing, and reduced counterparty risk—positions it as attractive institutional-grade collateral and a scalable yield product on Solana.
  2. Sustainable Systems Over Subsidies: Long-term value in crypto infrastructure and services like market making will come from robust, economically sound systems, not short-term, unsustainable incentives.
  3. Solana's Determinism Drive: Solana's push for greater network determinism (predictable transaction outcomes) directly addresses a core institutional need, potentially unlocking further capital allocation.
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May 6, 2025

Bits + Bips LIVE - May 5th, 2025

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tariff Turmoil Persists: Despite calming rhetoric, the haphazard US tariff rollout creates ongoing uncertainty, with potential for significant market impact if key sectors like AI chips are targeted.
  2. ETH's Uphill Battle: Ethereum faces significant headwinds in sentiment and relative performance; its path to renewed relevance depends on attracting major institutional adoption.
  3. Momentum is King in Crypto: Crypto markets, including assets like XRP (viewed as a short-term trade) and even Doge (noted for technicals), are primarily driven by attention and momentum, not traditional valuation metrics.
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May 5, 2025

Is Saylor Destined to Blow Up?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Saylor's Gambit is Bitcoin's Sword of Damocles:** MicroStrategy's leveraged Bitcoin accumulation is a major systemic risk; a blow-up could trigger a severe market downturn.
  2. **Trade Fundamentals, Not Just Narratives:** Focus on assets showing real usage or fitting strong themes (RWA, AI, DeFi yield) as the market gets selective. ETH remains fundamentally challenged despite price bounces.
  3. **Choppy Waters Ahead, Cash is King (Again):** Expect market consolidation. Reduce leverage, hold some cash, and look for dips in strong assets (like Tao) or opportunities to short weak ones (like ETH) – but avoid shorting in euphoric breakouts.
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May 5, 2025

Alex Tapscott: How I Predicted Crypto's Rise (And What's Coming Next)

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Institutional Bitcoin Demand is Real: Major players are accumulating Bitcoin via direct purchases and ETFs, creating sustained buying pressure.
  2. RWAs & AI are Next: Focus on the tokenization of traditional assets and the infrastructure enabling AI agents to transact autonomously on-chain.
  3. Bet on Platforms for AI: Consider exposure to high-throughput Layer 1s likely to become hubs for AI-driven activity as a proxy for the AI/crypto theme's growth.
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May 2, 2025

The US Treasury’s Stablecoin Report, TradFi’s Crypto Adoption, and Ethereum’s New Era | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Stablecoins Go Global: Prepare for a $2T market, fueled primarily by international demand, potentially reshaping banking competition.
  2. TradFi Bridge Built: Institutional adoption is accelerating (Schwab, BlackRock), creating a stark disconnect between strong fundamentals and current market sentiment—ripe for alpha hunters.
  3. Ethereum Adapts: ETH's deep liquidity anchors DeFi, but stablecoins and new L1s (like Thru) challenge its dominance, pushing ongoing evolution (Restaking, potential VM changes).
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