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AI Podcasts

June 14, 2025

The Unwinding Of The Global U.S Dollar Trade | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The U.S. Dollar's Dominance is Fraying: Decades of capital recycling into U.S. assets may reverse, boosting non-U.S. markets, gold, and Bitcoin while pressuring the dollar.
  2. AI is the New Geopolitical Battleground: The U.S.-China AI race will likely drive continued market support and investment into related infrastructure like nuclear and space tech.
  3. "Ponzanomics" Prevails: Expect continued fiscal expansion and market interventions (like Treasury buybacks) globally as governments prioritize economic stability and strategic goals over austerity.
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June 13, 2025

Gareth Howells: Bittensor Video Upscaling & Compression, VOD, AI, Crypto, Subnet 85 Vidaio | Ep. 48

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Compression is Cash: Vidaio’s bespoke AI compression offers enterprises 50%+ savings on video storage/bandwidth without sacrificing visual quality, targeting the 80% of internet traffic that is video.
  2. Bittensor’s Velocity: The decentralized Bittensor network acts as a powerful R&D engine, enabling Vidaio to out-innovate and outpace traditional development, turning concepts into market-ready solutions in months, not years.
  3. Token Tied to Utility: The success of Vidaio's alpha token hinges on securing enterprise clients and reinvesting revenues, making its value a direct reflection of its real-world utility and market penetration.
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June 13, 2025

Why the Robotics Revolution will be Powered by Decentralized AI, w/ the Founder of PrismaX

The People's AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hardware Isn't the Holdup: Robot bodies are capable; their brains (AI) need smarter, real-world training.
  2. Data is the New Differentiator: Access to diverse, large-scale, real-world interaction data will determine the winners in robotics AI.
  3. Decentralization Unlocks Scale: PrismaX bets that a community-driven approach to data collection and teleoperation can overcome the biases and bottlenecks of centralized efforts, fueling the next wave of robotic intelligence.
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June 13, 2025

What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI is rapidly democratizing sophisticated content creation and enabling entirely new business models. The speed of innovation is intense, making it both an exciting and "exhausting" time for creatives and builders.
  2. Video & Voice Converge: AI is now generating synchronized audio-visual content from simple text prompts, opening a Pandora's box for storytellers and "faceless" creators.
  3. Consumer AI Pays: Startups in consumer AI are scaling revenue at unprecedented rates, proving users will pay premium subscriptions for powerful, AI-native experiences.
  4. AI-Assisted Entrepreneurship: The barrier to launching a brand or product is crumbling, as AI tools empower anyone to design, market, and even conceptualize businesses with previously unimaginable speed and ease.
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June 12, 2025

How We Built A $300M+ Onchain Business in 2025 - Sky Founder, Rune Christensen

The Rollup

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hyper-Rational Focus Wins: Targeting "mercenary capital" with the best risk-adjusted returns creates a superior product for all users.
  2. Decentralized Innovation Engine: The "Stars" ecosystem is Sky's scalable solution for dynamic yield generation and market penetration, adapting faster than centralized models.
  3. AI is the Arbiter: Future stablecoin dominance will be heavily influenced by AI, both in yield sourcing by protocols and in product selection by users seeking maximum efficiency.
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June 11, 2025

The Ultimate AI Video Stack: Up-to-Date Best Tools to Make Content With AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Assemble Your AI Arsenal: Master video creation by strategically combining specialized tools: V3 for text-to-video, Cling 2.1 for image animation, Hedra for lip-sync, Higsfield for VFX, and Krea for multi-model experimentation and enhancement.
  2. Master the Art of the Prompt: Precision in prompting is paramount. Sequential descriptions in V3 ensure narrative coherence, while ample text for audio prevents awkward AI-generated filler.
  3. Iterate, Enhance, Conquer: Beyond initial generation, platforms like Krea are crucial for refining AI video, offering upscaling, frame rate boosts, and cross-model comparisons to achieve professional-grade outputs.
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June 10, 2025

Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Predictable AI: Shift focus from chasing perfect AI accuracy to building systems where AI errors are predictable and manageable, enabling human oversight where it matters most.
  2. Agents as Co-Pilots: Leverage AI agents to accelerate development and design ("compile time"), but maintain human control and deterministic execution in production ("runtime").
  3. Reimagine Customer Experience: AI offers a profound opportunity to move beyond process optimization and create entirely new, more intuitive, and efficient ways for customers to interact with businesses.
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June 9, 2025

Shakeel Hussein: Ridges AI, Bittensor AI Agents, Decentralized Software Engineering | Ep. 47

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ridges AI is pioneering a decentralized, hyper-competitive model for AI-driven software development. Speed, open innovation, and smart incentives are their weapons of choice in the race to automate coding.
  2. Execute Relentlessly: In the fast-paced AI domain, Ridges AI prioritizes rapid iteration and learning over perfecting initial designs.
  3. Open Code, Fierce Competition: Making agent code public is designed to spark a continuous improvement cycle, as miners build upon each other's work.
  4. The End of Human Coding is the Goal: Shakeel's explicit aim is for Ridges AI agents to entirely replace the need for human software engineers.
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June 8, 2025

We have a problem with ChatBot Arena.

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Gaming is Rife: Major players admit to fine-tuning models specifically for Arena, meaning high scores don't always reflect real-world, generalizable capability.
  2. Data Access Skews Results: Preferential treatment in sample rates and access to Arena data for fine-tuning gives proprietary models a significant, often undisclosed, advantage.
  3. Transparency & Fair Play Needed: ChatBot Arena must implement stricter, transparent rules—like prohibiting score retractions, limiting private models, and ensuring fair sampling—to restore trust and utility.
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Crypto Podcasts

April 23, 2025

The System Is Too Levered To Take Real Pain | Arthur Hayes

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Treasury is the New Fed: Forget obsessing over Powell; watch Treasury Secretary Bessent's moves (buybacks, SLR) for the real liquidity signals.
  2. Bitcoin Wins the Liquidity Game: Persistent global money printing, driven by systemic necessity, provides a structural tailwind for Bitcoin, potentially decoupling it from traditional risk assets like US tech.
  3. Gold Shines Amidst De-Dollarization: Central banks are diversifying reserves into gold, recognizing US Treasuries are no longer truly "risk-free" due to geopolitical weaponization, a trend reinforcing gold's value.
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April 23, 2025

"There is a Meaningful Vibe Change" - Ethereum's Pivot Has Begun & Community Reactions

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ethereum leadership and community acknowledge the need to strengthen the L1, viewing it as essential for long-term value accrual and ecosystem health.
  2. Focus is moving from finding the perfect "ETH asset" narrative to demonstrating value through "Ethereum the product" – a robust, scalable L1 attracting users and developers.
  3. As the L1 potentially becomes more competitive, L2s will need stronger, unique value propositions beyond simply being cheaper/faster alternatives.
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April 23, 2025

How To Avoid Regulatory Capture In Crypto | Miller Whitehouse-Levine

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capture Kills Innovation: Regulations creating excessive costs or complexity, even if providing "certainty," are failures if they price out new entrants and smaller players.
  2. Demand Tech-Neutrality: The only sustainable path for crypto regulation involves creating technology-agnostic rules that ensure a fair, level playing field for all participants.
  3. Focus on Macro Impact: Evaluate regulations not just on specifics but on their overall effect on market entry, competition, and innovation – avoid accidentally building impenetrable fortresses for incumbents.
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April 23, 2025

Are there too many tokens?

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Token quantity isn't the crisis: The market has always had more tokens than it can handle; this hasn't fundamentally changed.
  2. Macro calls the shots: Current market weakness and flight-to-quality (Bitcoin > Alts) are overwhelmingly driven by global economic downturn fears.
  3. Don't misinterpret signals: Resist attributing broad market moves solely to internal crypto factors like token supply when obvious external pressures exist.
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April 23, 2025

Why a Trump vs. Fed Showdown Would Crush the U.S. Dollar - Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Dollar Under Fire:** Expect continued US Dollar weakness (DXY potentially heading to 70) as policy uncertainty pushes investors towards alternatives.
  2. **Rotate, Rotate, Rotate:** US large-cap equities face headwinds; scarce assets like Gold, Copper, and notably Bitcoin are the favoured plays in this stagflationary environment.
  3. **Bitcoin: Digital Gold Rising:** Bitcoin's narrative as a non-sovereign store of value and hedge against institutional instability is gaining significant traction, potentially attracting sovereign buyers soon.
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April 22, 2025

How Does Circle Compete Against Other Stablecoins?

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Margin Compression is Real: High distribution payouts ($900M to Coinbase) severely impact profitability.
  2. Banks Are Coming: Impending regulation could unleash bank competition, challenging Circle's market share.
  3. Pivot or Perish: Circle must transition from interest-rate reliance towards transaction fees or B2B partnerships to survive and justify its valuation.
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