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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 18, 2025

Beyond the Hype: Crypto’s Next Chapter | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Efficiency is King: Protocols proving lean operations and clear value capture relative to TradTech will win scarce venture dollars.
  2. Disclose to Win: Transparency isn't optional; protocols providing clear, standardized data and disclosures will attract serious capital.
  3. Stablecoins Aren't Monolithic: Understand the nuances – payment vs. yield, US vs. global demand, issuer vs. infrastructure vs. enabled business – to capitalize on their growth.
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April 18, 2025

Is This The End of Steady Lads?

Steady Lads Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH Contrarian Play: Thicky eyes a deep ETH bottom ($200 target) as a long-term Proof-of-Stake bet, viewing PoW as flawed.
  2. Macro Escape: Gold's surge signals a potential flight from the USD; Bitcoin is seen as the practical digital gold alternative for individuals.
  3. Product Urgency: Crypto's long-term relevance hinges on delivering real-world products, not just speculative tokens or unsustainable pump-and-dumps like Mantra.
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April 17, 2025

Bryan Pellegrino on Building the Crypto Rails for AI Agents

The People's AI

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Agent Volume Tsunami:** AI agents will perform vastly more blockchain operations (especially payments) than humans very soon, demanding scalable infrastructure.
  2. **Crypto is the Payment Layer:** Forget decentralized compute (for now); crypto's killer app for AI is providing seamless, low-cost global payment rails.
  3. **Build Generalizable Rails:** Success requires building adaptable, fundamental infrastructure (like Layer Zero aims to be) rather than solving fleeting, specific problems in this fast-changing landscape.
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April 17, 2025

Is Bitcoin A Safe Haven?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Watch IBIT/SPY:** A breakout above 0.1 in the IBIT/SPY ratio could signal Bitcoin decoupling and trigger major capital inflows.
  2. **Bitcoin > Gold (Long Term):** Bitcoin offers a superior potential upside (5-10x) compared to gold (2x) over the next decade, though its path will be far more volatile.
  3. **Diversify with Gold:** Adding gold can stabilize a portfolio (higher Sharpe), enabling investors to potentially hold larger, more volatile Bitcoin positions for long-term gains.
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April 17, 2025

Building the Future of Payments: Plasma Chain’s Global Go-To-Market Strategy

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Dual Strategy is Key: Plasma Chain attacks the market from both the crypto-native angle (liquidity, devs) and a targeted "ground game" (local payment integration).
  2. Targeted Regional Rollout: Specific markets like South America (El Salvador, Argentina) and Turkey are prioritized for initial real-world integration efforts.
  3. Quality Beats Quantity: Ecosystem success is measured by the value of a few core protocols, not the sheer number of deployed applications day one.
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April 16, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 105 - SONIC $S ))) ) ) ) )

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **User Experience Trumps TPS:** Sonic prioritizes smooth, responsive interactions and sub-second finality over chasing headline transaction-per-second numbers.
  2. **Solving Onboarding is the Killer App:** Native account and gas abstraction aim to eliminate the wallet/gas friction that plagues crypto adoption, combined with 90% fee share making Sonic attractive for builders.
  3. **The Future is Invisible:** Sonic's 2026 goal is to make the underlying blockchain utterly seamless and invisible to the end user, enabling the next wave of Web3 applications in gaming, social, and beyond.
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