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AI Podcasts

December 18, 2025

AI Consulting in Practice – NLW, Super ai

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Agent Economy is Here: Enterprises are moving past pilots with AI agents. Builders should focus on orchestration layers and human-agent interaction design.
  2. ROI Measurement is the Next Frontier: Investors should look for solutions that help organizations accurately track and attribute AI value beyond traditional metrics.
  3. Strategic AI, Not Spot Solutions: The biggest wins come from systematic, cross-organizational AI strategies that target new capabilities and revenue growth, not just incremental time savings.
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December 18, 2025

How to build an AI native company (even if your company is 50 years old) – Dan Shipper, Every

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The 100% AI adoption threshold is a step-function change, not incremental. Companies that commit fully will outpace those with partial integration.
  2. Builders should prioritize "compounding engineering" by codifying knowledge into reusable prompts. This builds an organizational memory that accelerates future development exponentially.
  3. Re-evaluate team structures and roles. Single engineers can own complex products, and even technical managers can contribute code, shifting how organizations operate.
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December 17, 2025

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

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Effective crime reduction requires a shift from reactive punishment to proactive, intelligence-driven deterrence, making it highly probable for criminals to be caught.
  2. The market for AI-powered public safety technology, particularly solutions that integrate data for precision and accountability, presents a significant opportunity. Public-private partnerships are a key funding mechanism.
  3. Over the next 6-12 months, expect to see more cities adopt advanced surveillance and AI tools, driven by private funding, as they seek to improve safety and address staffing shortages without resorting to ineffective, broad-stroke policies.
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December 18, 2025

Two Futures | Runtime 2025

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The next decade will be defined by who builds the core infrastructure for intelligence. This is where the most significant value and influence will accrue.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Direct capital and talent towards foundational AI components—chips, models, and interoperable systems. Avoid the temptation to only build at the application layer.
  3. The So What?: The window for shaping the future of intelligence is now. Engage in the deepest, most complex challenges to secure a footprint in this new era.
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December 18, 2025

The EU and the not-so-simple macroeconomics of AI – Luis Garicano

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The global AI race is a zero-sum game for foundational models. Europe's best strategy is a "smart second mover" approach, focusing on the implementation layer by ensuring interoperability and data portability.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Invest in AI that achieves true autonomy and enhances expert productivity. Be wary of markets stifled by over-regulation, which can impede AI adoption and growth.
  3. The "So What?": Europe faces a critical juncture. Without embracing AI-driven growth, its demographic and debt problems will worsen, leading to higher interest rates without the corresponding economic expansion.
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December 18, 2025

SAM 3: The Eyes for AI — Nikhila & Pengchuan (Meta Superintelligence), ft. Joseph Nelson (Roboflow)

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Vision AI Democratization: SAM 3 lowers the barrier for sophisticated vision tasks, making advanced segmentation and tracking accessible for a wider range of applications.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on domain-specific adaptations and tooling that enhance human-AI interaction for ambiguous visual concepts. The "last mile" of user intent is a key differentiator.
  3. The "So What?": SAM 3 accelerates the development of multimodal AI, particularly in robotics and video analysis, by providing a robust, scalable visual foundation for the next generation of intelligent systems.
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December 16, 2025

Humanoid Robots: Hype vs Reality in 2026 | Rerun CEO

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: The next frontier in robotics is less about pure algorithmic breakthroughs and more about building robust, scalable data infrastructure and full-stack product systems that can handle the messy physical world.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Prioritize companies solving the "boring" but critical data and systems problems. Look for practical, "scrappy" companies deploying robots in specific industrial niches, rather than just those with flashy, general-purpose demos.
  3. The "So What?": The gap between impressive demos and deployable products will narrow over the next 6-12 months as data pipelines mature and product-focused companies gain traction. Expect to see more robust, self-correcting robots performing longer, more complex tasks in controlled environments.
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December 16, 2025

Nvidia's Generative AI ecosystem supporting Japan's sovereign AI

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ecosystem Dominance: NVIDIA's strategy extends beyond hardware; they are building an end-to-end ecosystem of software, open-source models, and direct support, making them indispensable for national AI initiatives.
  2. Builder Opportunity: Leverage NVIDIA's open-source Blueprints for agentic AI and Nemotron models for high-performance, customizable solutions. Prioritize local context in model training and data.
  3. Strategic Imperative: Sovereign AI is a growing global trend. Nations and companies that can build and control AI tailored to their specific cultural, linguistic, and regulatory environments will gain a significant advantage in the coming years.
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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 fine-tuning will accelerate the development and deployment of more reliable and sophisticated AI agents across industries.
  2. Builders should explore open-source LLMs combined with RL fine-tuning as a cost-effective strategy to achieve specific performance benchmarks, especially where latency and cost are critical.
  3. Platforms abstracting infrastructure complexity and providing integrated tooling for the entire AI development lifecycle are crucial for the next phase of AI agent deployment.
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Crypto Podcasts

April 1, 2025

Are Meme Coins Really Dead? | Weekly Roundup

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Meme Coins Persist:** Pump.fun's combined volume nears ATHs post-Pump Swap launch; the game evolves, integrating social features (Zora) and platform revenue sharing, rather than disappearing.
  2. **Fees Aren't Everything:** Tron's high network fees mask an application-light ecosystem heavily reliant on CEX USDT flows, unlike Solana's more balanced app/chain fee structure.
  3. **Stablecoin Yield Ban Reshapes Market:** No native yield benefits incumbent issuers (Circle/Tether) and potentially DeFi, pushing yield generation to adjacent protocols and complicating the 'stablecoins fund US debt' narrative.
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April 1, 2025

How Zora is Redefining the Creator Economy | Jacob Horne

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Zora is pioneering a shift from illiquid NFTs to fungible content coins, creating liquid markets around individual pieces of online media. This model aims to empower the long tail of creators and build a more open, composable, and value-aligned internet economy beyond ads and subscriptions.
  2. **Content is Fungible:** The market realized many NFTs were traded fungibly; coins offer a more efficient market structure for most online content.
  3. **Attention Markets Emerge:** Crypto enables open markets to price the attention and cultural relevance of content, moving beyond ad exchanges.
  4. **Simplified Creator Monetization:** Zora provides tools for creators to easily tokenize content and earn directly via integrated market mechanisms (LP fees), often surpassing earnings on traditional platforms.
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March 31, 2025

Why Stablecoins Are Crypto's Biggest Opportunity | Charlie Noyes & Bam Azizi

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Infrastructure is the Play: With issuer economics concentrated and competition fierce, the real opportunity lies in building the "picks and shovels" – APIs, UX layers, and interoperability solutions (like Mesh) – that make stablecoins usable at scale.
  2. Fragmentation is Inevitable (and an Opportunity): Expect a proliferation of stablecoins from banks, fintechs, and others. This increases complexity but creates demand for aggregators and middleware that simplify the ecosystem.
  3. Regulation Unlocks Institutions: Clearer regulations are the primary catalyst needed for risk-averse institutions to embrace stablecoins, potentially triggering a wave of adoption akin to cloud migration.
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March 30, 2025

GameStop Goes Full Saylor: Bitcoin or Bust, Lads?

blocmates.

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Debt-Fueled Gamble:** GameStop's $1.3B Bitcoin buy using convertible bonds is a high-risk bet entirely dependent on BTC price appreciation for success and debt repayment.
  2. **Stock Price Over Operations:** The primary goal seems to be inflating the stock price via Bitcoin exposure, rather than fixing the underlying retail business.
  3. **Saylor Strategy Goes Mainstream:** This move signals the "Saylor Strategy" is spreading, potentially pushing more non-tech companies towards Bitcoin treasury reserves, amplifying both adoption and systemic risk.
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March 30, 2025

Finding Successful Investments

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on Established Networks or Speculate on Potential: Choose Bitcoin/Ethereum for proven network effects or new L1s/L2s/Meme Coins for higher-risk, potential-driven bets.
  2. Community is the First Utility: Strong communities are the initial network effect in web3; projects building utility (games, L2s) on this base signal deepening value.
  3. Meme Coins Evolve: Watch for meme communities launching games or infrastructure (L2s/L3s) as a sign of longevity and network effect expansion.
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March 28, 2025

How to Become a Millionaire Crypto Insider (FREE 5 STEP GUIDE)

Taiki Maeda

Crypto

Key Takeaways:


1. Beware the Playbook: Recognize the cynical cycle of hype, VC validation, token launch, strategic pumping, and insider dumping.


2. Airdrops Aren't Free Lunch: Understand that airdrop campaigns primarily benefit projects via free marketing and liquidity, with insiders potentially gaming the system.


3. Demand Better: The crypto space needs greater transparency and accountability; the current incentive structure rewards manipulative behavior until it becomes unprofitable.

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