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AI Podcasts

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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January 9, 2026

Spec-Driven Development: Sharpening your AI toolbox - Al Harris, Amazon Kiro

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "vibe coding" to "spec-driven" engineering.
  2. Implement EARS-formatted requirements in your AI prompts.
  3. Determinism is the ultimate feature for AI-assisted development.
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January 8, 2026

Post-training best-in-class models in 2025

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Intelligence is decoupling from scale. As reasoning becomes a commodity, the value moves from the size of the model to the proprietary nature of the training data.
  2. Use TRL or Unsloth for single-GPU fine-tuning. Prioritize cleaning your instruction sets over increasing your training iterations.
  3. The future belongs to those who own their data pipelines. If you can distill elite reasoning into a 350M parameter model, you win on latency, cost, and privacy.
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January 8, 2026

Intelligent Robots in 2026: Are We There Yet? [Nikita Rudin] - 760

The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Moving from Blind Locomotion to Semantic Navigation defines the next frontier.
  2. Prioritize modular architectures that use off-the-shelf VLMs for task orchestration.
  3. Expect the first value-positive humanoid deployments in late 2026.
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Crypto Podcasts

April 9, 2025

Are We In A Bear Market? | Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Fundamental Disconnect: Solana's network activity (DEX volume, stablecoins) is stronger now than when SOL last traded below $100, despite the recent price plunge.
  2. Diverging Narratives: Bitcoin is trading like non-sovereign money, reacting to macro news, while Solana's price is more closely tied to its Layer 1 competition with Ethereum.
  3. Leverage Alert: Near-record high Solana open interest (in SOL terms) indicates significant leverage, suggesting amplified volatility potential ahead.
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April 9, 2025

Trump Is “Kitchen Sinking” The US Economy | Darius Dale

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Expect Pain Before Gain: The transition requires near-term economic disruption and market volatility ("go down to go up") before potential long-term benefits materialize. Markets haven't fully priced this in.
  2. Fed Will Be Forced to Act: Ignore Fed rhetoric; expect QE driven by financial stability needs and the debt cycle, regardless of stated intentions about rate levels. Structural inflation near 3% makes the 2% target a source of policy error.
  3. Ditch Long Bonds, Embrace Systems: Structural inflation and fiscal risks make long-term bonds unattractive. Navigate the volatile "Fourth Turning" environment with systematic, rules-based strategies dynamically allocating across assets like stocks, gold, and Bitcoin, prioritizing risk management over prediction.
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April 8, 2025

Why Is Trump Nuking Markets? | Felix Jauvin

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Buy the Dip (Carefully): In times of extreme fear (VIX 50+, Equities -20%), layer into positions incrementally; don't try to perfectly time the bottom or get trapped holding losers.
  2. Bitcoin's Moment?: Deglobalization, capital controls, and foreign stimulus could provide short-to-medium term tailwinds for Bitcoin, potentially decoupling it from traditional risk assets.
  3. Inflation Is Likely Toast: Barring a hot war, the economic slowdown from tariffs likely outweighs direct price impacts, paving the way for eventual Fed easing, even if Powell plays coy for now.
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April 8, 2025

The State Of Solana With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Apps Outearn the Chain: Solana apps are generating nearly twice the revenue ($1.84) per dollar compared to the network itself, proving strong economic viability on the platform.
  2. Fundamentals Over Price: Despite SOL's price drop, core network health indicators like stablecoin supply and DEX activity remain robust, suggesting the sell-off may be detached from on-chain reality.
  3. L1 Scaling is Priority: Solana is doubling down on enhancing the L1 directly via upgrades (like TPU feedback) and app-level innovation (off-chain elements), rejecting Ethereum's L2 path to keep liquidity unified.
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April 8, 2025

Grifters, Meme Coins & the Solana Comeback

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Grifters Follow the Heat: Speculative actors migrate to blockchains with the highest activity and potential returns, currently favouring Solana's meme coin ecosystem.
  2. Meme Coins Drive Cycles: Love them or hate them, meme coins are a powerful catalyst for user activity, price appreciation, and ecosystem attention, replicating patterns seen in Ethereum's growth.
  3. Underdog Narratives Fuel Growth: Facing adversity can forge strong, defiant communities (like Solana post-FTX) that focus inward and drive significant comebacks, echoing Ethereum's own path to dominance.
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April 7, 2025

How to Raise Crypto VC, Investing in DePIN, Network States, and the Electro Dollar with Anirudh Pai

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Real Demand Trumps Hype: Prove long-term user need and cultivate raving fans; that’s the best pitch.
  2. DePIN Needs Web2 Polish: Solve user friction, especially payments, before reinventing complex crypto-native wheels.
  3. Bet on Abundance & Serendipity: The future hinges on cheap energy and compute ("Electro Dollar"), found through irrational exploration, not just rigid pattern-matching.
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