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AI Podcasts

December 17, 2025

“How We Can Eliminate Crime” | Ben Horowitz and Garrett Langley

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Future of Policing is Intelligent: Integrating AI, drones, and smart cameras creates a precise, accountable, and safer policing model for both officers and communities.
  2. Invest in the "How": Builders and investors should focus on technologies that enhance certainty of capture, streamline judicial processes, and support public-private partnerships to modernize urban safety infrastructure.
  3. Safety Fuels Mobility: Eliminating crime is not just about law enforcement; it's about restoring the fundamental safety required for economic mobility and a functional society.
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December 18, 2025

Two Futures | Runtime 2025

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The next decade's value will accrue to those building foundational AI infrastructure and the "invisible layers" that connect intelligent systems.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus capital and talent on core AI models, specialized domain intelligence, and the underlying computational fabric. Superficial applications risk rapid commoditization.
  3. The So What?: This is the defining period for the architecture of global intelligence. Participation now determines future influence and relevance.
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December 16, 2025

⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: AI security must move beyond superficial guardrails to a full-stack, offensive red-teaming approach that accounts for the expanding attack surface of AI agents and their tool access.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Builders should prioritize integrating offensive security early in development. Investors should be wary of "security theater" and favor solutions that embrace open-source collaboration and address the entire AI application stack.
  3. The "So What?": The accelerating pace of AI development means static security solutions will quickly become obsolete. Proactive, community-driven, and full-stack security research is essential for navigating the next 6-12 months of AI evolution.
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December 16, 2025

Why Physical AI Needs a new Data Set | Rerun CEO

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Data Infrastructure is the Next Bottleneck: The physical AI sector's growth hinges on specialized data tooling that can handle multimodal, multi-rate, episodic data, moving beyond traditional tabular models.
  2. Builders, Prioritize Robustness: Focus on building systems that handle real-world variability and simplify data pipelines. Leverage open-source tools and consider combining imitation and reinforcement learning.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will see significant improvements in robot robustness and the ability to perform longer, more complex tasks. This progress will be driven by better data management, making the gap between lab demos and deployable products narrower.
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December 16, 2025

Build reliable AI agents using W&B Training

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The democratization of RL for LLMs will accelerate the deployment of more reliable and sophisticated AI agents across industries.
  2. Builders should move beyond basic prompt engineering and RAG. RL fine-tuning, now accessible via W&B Serverless RL, is a critical next step for high-stakes agentic applications.
  3. For the next 6-12 months, expect a surge in production-grade AI agents, with open-source models increasingly closing the performance gap with proprietary alternatives through advanced fine-tuning.
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December 15, 2025

Coding Evals: From Code Snippets to Codebases – Naman Jain, Cursor

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Dynamic Evaluation is Non-Negotiable: Static benchmarks are dead. Future AI development demands continuously updated, contamination-resistant evaluation sets.
  2. AI Needs AI to Judge AI: As models grow more sophisticated, LLM-driven "hack detectors" become essential for ensuring code quality and preventing adversarial exploitation of evaluation systems.
  3. User Experience Drives Adoption: For interactive AI coding tools, prioritize low latency and human-centric design; technical prowess alone will not guarantee real-world usage.
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December 15, 2025

Building in the Gemini Era – Kat Kampf & Ammaar Reshi, Google DeepMind

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The value in software development shifts from manual coding to high-level architectural design and prompt engineering.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Experiment with AI Studio's agentic and design capabilities. Focus on describing desired functionality rather than low-level code.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will see a surge in AI-powered, full-stack applications built by a broader range of creators, disrupting traditional development paradigms.
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December 16, 2025

What We Learned Deploying AI within Bloomberg’s Engineering Organization – Lei Zhang, Bloomberg

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: AI's impact extends beyond simple productivity. The real opportunity lies in fundamentally changing the cost function of engineering, making previously expensive or undesirable tasks cheap and feasible.
  2. Platform Imperative: For large organizations, a "golden path" platform is not optional. It's how you manage complexity, ensure quality, and scale AI adoption safely and efficiently.
  3. Human-Centric Adaptation: Technology is only half the battle. Investing in cultural adaptation, community building, and leadership training is crucial for realizing AI's full potential.
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December 16, 2025

Your Support Team Should Ship Code – Lisa Orr, Zapier

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: Companies integrating AI-driven code generation into non-engineering roles will see significant efficiency gains and improved product reliability.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on building AI tools that deeply embed into existing workflows. Orchestration of multiple AI tools into an agent-like system is key for adoption and value.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will see a redefinition of "support" from reactive reporting to proactive, code-shipping problem-solving, unlocking new talent pools and accelerating development cycles.
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Crypto Podcasts

February 8, 2025

NS032 - dTAO Governance :: Vote in Progress :: Major Network Upgrade

Opentensor Foundation

DeFi
Crypto
Infrastructure

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Strategic Scaling: The dTAO vote introduces a robust framework for subnet expansion, balancing rapid growth with economic stability.
  • 2. Stable Tokenomics: The EMA-based TOA emission design ensures fair and tamper-resistant token distribution, safeguarding investor interests.
  • 3. Decentralized Governance: Active community participation is crucial for successful network upgrades, reinforcing BitTensor’s decentralized ethos.
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February 8, 2025

"The person who controls the memes controls the world" - Luca Netz

Bankless

Crypto
Others

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Meme coins are evolving into multifaceted entities that serve as cultural, community, and ecosystem pillars, offering diverse functionalities beyond their meme origins.
  • 2. Effective marketing strategies and compelling origin stories are crucial in building strong communities and driving the real-world adoption of meme coins.
  • 3. Controlling meme narratives is a powerful tool for influencing societal trends and can determine the global impact and success of a meme coin.
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