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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 7, 2025

Trump vs Markets: Who Blinks First? | Avi Felman & Jonah Van Bourg

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Buy the Fear (Strategically): Extreme volatility, record volume, and forced selling signal potential bottoms; scaling into weakness is preferred over trying to perfectly time the low.
  2. Crypto Gains Relative Strength: Bitcoin benefits from deglobalization trends and anticipated global stimulus (ex-US), potentially outperforming traditional assets in this environment.
  3. Inflation Fears Overblown, Fed Pivot Likely: The market crash itself is deflationary; expect the Fed to tolerate the pain to kill inflation, then pivot towards easing (likely starting May), further supporting risk assets eventually.
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April 7, 2025

Why Is Trump Nuking Markets? | Felix Jauvin

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trump's Gambit: The tariff chaos might be a high-stakes strategy to isolate China, forcing allies to choose sides and share the burden of the US security umbrella.
  2. Buy the Blood (Carefully): With equities down ~20% and VIX elevated, it's time to cautiously scale into risk assets, accepting potential short-term pain to catch an eventual rebound.
  3. Bitcoin's Edge: De-globalization and reactive global stimulus position Bitcoin favorably, potentially decoupling (or at least outperforming) traditional assets in the near term.
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April 7, 2025

Hating on Crypto (With Love) | Felix Jauvin & James Christoph

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stablecoin Issuers are Cash Cows:** Companies like Circle (IPO soon) benefit massively from yield capture on reserves; regulation might even lock this in.
  2. **DeFi Degens vs. TradFi Suits:** Expect ongoing clashes as institutional capital demands simpler structures, challenging crypto's complex governance/token models.
  3. **Meme Coins Aren't Dying:** Despite drawdowns, platforms like Pump.fun show meme creation/trading has strong, persistent demand and revenue generation.
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April 7, 2025

Ethereum Co-Founder: Why Crypto Has Failed | Gavin Wood

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Crypto Has Lost Its Way: The industry's obsession with hype and speculation diverts resources and attention from building genuine, society-improving utility based on Web3 ideals.
  2. Tech Matters, But Adoption is Slow: Superior technology (scalability, economic independence, coherence like JAM aims for) is crucial, but overcoming market inertia, hype-driven funding, and user stickiness takes significant time.
  3. Web3 Urgently Needed for AI Era: Trust-minimized Web3 systems, especially robust Proof of Personhood, are critical defenses against the centralizing, trust-based nature of AI to maintain individual sovereignty and reliable information.
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April 5, 2025

Zora coins are the future of content creation #crypto #eth #sol #web3 #zora

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Content Becomes an Asset: Zora allows creators to transform any media into a tradable coin, capturing economic value directly tied to its perceived worth and audience engagement.
  2. Engagement = Trading Volume: The primary metric for crypto-native engagement on Zora is trading volume, which directly translates into creator rewards in ETH and the content's specific token.
  3. Own What You Love: Zora enables fans to directly own a piece of the content they value, creating a powerful alignment between creator success and audience investment.
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April 4, 2025

This Is What Capitulation Feels Like | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capitulation Near, But Timing Tricky: Close hedges now; consider tactical longs (calls) soon, but be ready to sell the bounce as it's likely a bear market rally.
  2. Policy is the Pivot: Market relief likely requires Trump blinking on tariffs or significant fiscal stimulus announcements; don't wait for the Fed to save the day.
  3. Watch Relative Strength: Bitcoin and Homebuilders show surprising resilience, offering potential clues or opportunities amidst the chaos. Commodities look oversold but need confirmation.
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