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AI Podcasts

December 11, 2025

No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski

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

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: The future of human-computer interaction is voice-first, moving from static content to dynamic, personalized, and agentic experiences.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Defensibility in AI is increasingly found in deep product layers, specialized architectural breakthroughs (especially in audio), and robust ecosystems, not just raw model scale.
  3. The "So What?": Over the next 6-12 months, expect to see significant advancements in proactive AI agents, immersive media, and personalized education, with voice as the core interface.
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December 10, 2025

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI-Delegation Revolution is Here: Start experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT for delegation now. The future involves proactive machine assistants deeply integrated into your workflow.
  2. Builders & Investors: Focus on "How to Delegate": The biggest constraint isn't finding assistants, but teaching clients how to delegate effectively. Tools and services that educate delegators will win.
  3. Reclaim Your Ambition: By offloading the mundane, you free up mental bandwidth to think bigger, pursue more ambitious goals, and ultimately, control your most valuable asset: time.
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December 12, 2025

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The AI bubble is inevitable. Focus on defensible positions: deep product integration, proprietary data, and distribution, rather than just raw model performance.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: The opportunity lies in productizing AI for specific "jobs to be done" within niche industries, creating intuitive UIs, and building in validation, not just building another foundational model.
  3. The "So What?": We're about to figure out the true "job to be done" for many industries. AI will unbundle existing businesses by exposing their hidden inefficiencies or non-obvious defensibilities.
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December 13, 2025

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Parsimony and Self-Consistency: Adopt these principles as guiding forces in AI design. Build models that not only compress data efficiently but also maintain a high degree of self-consistency to ensure accurate and reliable world models.
  2. Focus on Abstraction, Not Just Memorization: Prioritize developing systems that can abstract knowledge beyond mere memorization. Move beyond surface-level compression and aim for models that can discover and reason about the underlying principles of the world.
  3. Understand and Reproduce the Brain’s Mechanisms: Focus on understanding and reproducing the mechanisms in the human brain that enable deductive reasoning, logical thinking, and the creation of new scientific theories to truly push AI to the next level.
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December 10, 2025

Nav Kumar: Trishool, AI Alignment, Subnet 23, Mechanistic Interpretability, Rogue LLMs | Ep. 75

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Prioritize AI Safety Research:** Invest aggressively in understanding and mitigating AI risks to safeguard humanity against potential rogue LLMs.
  2. **Support Decentralized AI Alignment:** Champion decentralized platforms like Bit Tensor and initiatives like Trishool that promote open and transparent AI alignment research.
  3. **Embrace Mechanistic Interpretability:** Drive the development of tools that enable us to understand and control the internal workings of AI models, ensuring alignment with human values.
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December 10, 2025

Everyone Needs an Assistant. Here’s Why.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Delegation as a Foundational Skill: Whether you leverage AI or human support, mastering delegation is paramount for unlocking personal and professional potential.
  2. Prioritize Time Ownership: Recognize time as your most valuable asset and design your life and calendar around your highest goals.
  3. Start Small, Scale Intentionally: Begin with affordable AI tools and gradually incorporate human assistance as your budget and needs evolve, building trust and compounding leverage over time.
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December 8, 2025

Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Analog:** Explore and invest in analog computing solutions to overcome the energy limitations of current digital AI systems.
  2. **Prioritize Causality:** Shift focus towards AI models that incorporate time and causality, potentially unlocking more advanced and human-like intelligence.
  3. **Support Hardware Innovation:** Invest in and foster startups like Unconventional AI that are tackling fundamental challenges in AI hardware.
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December 8, 2025

Why AI Will Have To Run On Blockchains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Blockchain is essential for AI to ensure censorship resistance and uninterrupted accessibility.
  2. Trustworthy AI agents require on-chain governance to manage assets securely and transparently.
  3. AI agents can drastically accelerate blockchain adoption and optimize corporate processes.
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December 7, 2025

Tensor Logic "Unifies" AI Paradigms [Pedro Domingos]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tensor Logic provides a unified framework for AI, bridging the gap between symbolic AI and deep learning, offering improved reasoning, transparency, and efficiency.
  2. The language addresses the limitations of current AI systems, enabling reliable deduction and facilitating structure learning through gradient descent, paving the way for more interpretable and controllable AI.
  3. Tensor Logic has the potential to advance AI education by providing a single language for teaching the entire gamut of AI. Its gradual adoption path allows developers to integrate it into existing workflows.
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Crypto Podcasts

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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May 1, 2025

Hivemind: Does Bitcoin Have More Fuel to Run?

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bitcoin Pause Likely: Expect potential short-term consolidation for Bitcoin as positive news fuel runs low; macro risks remain, but new ATHs are anticipated later this year.
  2. Solana Strong Bet: SOL emerges as the preferred L1 alternative, driven by superior architecture, ecosystem growth, and significant treasury buying pressure on the horizon.
  3. Altcoins Demand Substance: Market rationalization favors projects with realistic valuations and fundamentals; high-beta focus shifts to SOL memes, select strong L1s/apps (SUI, Hype), or SOL ecosystem plays (restaking), competing with leveraged BTC exposure.
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May 1, 2025

Cambria: The Degen MMO With $1M+ Seasonal Prize Pools

Delphi Digital

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Real Stakes Drive Engagement: Integrating significant financial risk/reward ($1M+ prize pools) creates intense player engagement, emergent strategies, and social dynamics far exceeding traditional games.
  2. Off-Chain Flexibility is Crucial (For Now): While the dream is fully on-chain, managing multi-million dollar game economies necessitates off-chain components for exploit mitigation, balancing, and analysis, at least in the near term.
  3. Targeting Degens Works: Cambria proves there's a potent market at the intersection of crypto traders and hardcore MMO players who crave high-stakes, economically meaningful gameplay.
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April 30, 2025

Michael Saylor's Billion Dollar Bitcoin Trade

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Saylor's Playbook Goes Viral:** The MSTR strategy of leveraging stock premiums to acquire Bitcoin is being actively replicated, potentially fragmenting demand but also increasing overall leveraged exposure.
  2. **Leverage Risk Amplified:** New MSTR-like vehicles often lack an underlying business, making them pure, high-risk leveraged bets on Bitcoin funded by debt, vulnerable to sharp price declines.
  3. **GBTC Déjà Vu:** The rise of these debt-fueled Bitcoin acquisition vehicles strongly echoes the dynamics of the ultimately disastrous GBTC premium trade, signaling caution is warranted as this trend accelerates.
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April 29, 2025

What's Driving Bitcoin Higher?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **ETF Flows Are Legit:** The billions pouring into Bitcoin ETFs represent real, broad-based demand, not just arbitrage froth.
  2. **Beware the MSTR Clones:** The rise of leveraged Bitcoin-buying public companies is the biggest near-term systemic risk – watch those premiums.
  3. **RWAs Are Real AF:** Don't sleep on Real World Assets; platforms like Pendle and Maple show explosive growth and represent the next major crypto narrative.
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