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AI Podcasts

December 30, 2025

Your Brain Doesn't Command Your Body. It Predicts It. [Max Bennett]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The macro pivot: The transition from static data training to interactive world models that perform active inference.
  2. The tactical edge: Prioritize AI architectures that incorporate continual learning and hypothesis testing rather than just scaling parameters.
  3. The next decade belongs to those who replicate the biological transition from observation to interactive simulation.
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December 31, 2025

The Algorithm That IS The Scientific Method [Dr. Jeff Beck]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Move from Big Data mimicry to Small Data causal reasoning.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize Active Inference frameworks that track uncertainty.
  3. AGI won't come from bigger LLMs; it will come from agents that possess a physics-grounded world model.
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December 30, 2025

[State of AI Startups] Memory/Learning, RL Envs & DBT-Fivetran — Sarah Catanzaro, Amplify

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from stateless chat interfaces to stateful, personalized agents that learn from every interaction.
  2. Prioritize memory. If you are building an application, treat state management and continual learning as your core technical moat to prevent user churn.
  3. Stop chasing clones of existing apps for reinforcement learning. Use real-world logs and traces to build models that solve actual engineering friction.
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December 30, 2025

[State of RL/Reasoning] IMO/IOI Gold, OpenAI o3/GPT-5, and Cursor Composer — Ashvin Nair, Cursor

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from internet-scale imitation to environment-scale RL.
  2. Build products that capture the full context of a professional's workflow to make them RL-ready.
  3. Intelligence is no longer the bottleneck. The winner will be whoever builds the best hard drive for professional context.
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December 31, 2025

[State of Post-Training] From GPT-4.1 to 5.1: RLVR, Agent & Token Efficiency — Josh McGrath, OpenAI

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: Intelligence is moving from a scarce resource to a commodity where the primary differentiator is the cost per task rather than raw model size.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize building on models that demonstrate high token efficiency to ensure your agentic workflows remain profitable as complexity grows.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next year will be defined by the systems vs. models tension. Success belongs to those who can engineer the environment as effectively as the algorithm.
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December 31, 2025

[State of Evals] LMArena's $100M Vision — Anastasios Angelopoulos, LMArena

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from static benchmarks to "Vibe-as-a-Service" means model labs must optimize for human delight rather than just loss curves.
  2. Use Arena’s open-source data releases to fine-tune models on real-world prompt distributions.
  3. In a world of synthetic data and benchmark saturation, human preference is the only remaining scarce resource for validating frontier capabilities.
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December 31, 2025

[State of Context Engineering] Agentic RAG, Context Rot, MCP, Subagents — Nina Lopatina, Contextual

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from Model-Centric to Context-Centric AI. As base models commoditize, the value moves to the proprietary data retrieval and prompt optimization layers.
  2. Implement an instruction-following re-ranker. Use small models to filter retrieval results before they hit the main context window to maintain high precision.
  3. Context is the new moat. Your ability to coordinate sub-agents and manage context rot will determine your product's reliability over the next year.
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December 31, 2025

[NeurIPS Best Paper] 1000 Layer Networks for Self-Supervised RL — Kevin Wang et al, Princeton

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The convergence of RL and self-supervised learning. As the boundary between "learning to see" and "learning to act" blurs, the winning agents will be those that treat the world as a giant classification problem.
  2. Prioritize depth over width. When building action-oriented models, increase layer count while maintaining residual paths to maximize intelligence per parameter.
  3. The "Scaling Laws" have arrived for RL. Expect a new class of robotics and agents that learn from raw interaction data rather than human-crafted reward functions.
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December 31, 2025

[State of AI Papers 2025] Fixing Research with Social Signals, OCR & Implementation — Team AlphaXiv

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Age of Scaling is hitting a wall, leading to a migration toward reasoning and recursive models like TRM that win on efficiency.
  2. Filter your research feed by implementation ease rather than just citation count to accelerate your development cycle.
  3. In a world of AI-generated paper slop, the ability to quickly spin up a sandbox and verify code is the only sustainable competitive advantage for AI labs.
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Crypto Podcasts

March 24, 2025

Buy The Dip Or Sell The Rip? | Felix Jauvin

1000x Podcast

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Bitcoin remains a strong long-term investment due to increasing institutional adoption and its potential as a global, non-sovereign asset.
  2. Macroeconomic trends, particularly those driven by political decisions, significantly influence Bitcoin's price.
  3. The altcoin market needs a fundamental shift away from speculative trading towards projects with genuine utility and long-term value propositions.
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March 24, 2025

How To Position For 2025 | Jonah Van Bourg & Avi Felman LIVE from DAS

Forward Guidance

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. The crypto market is bifurcating, with institutions favoring Bitcoin for the long term while retail interest in altcoins wanes.
  2. Macroeconomic uncertainty under Trump creates volatility but also opportunities for Bitcoin investors.
  3. Bitcoin’s decentralized nature positions it as a key asset in an increasingly multipolar world.
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March 24, 2025

From Techno-Optimism to Memecoins: What Happened to Crypto?

The DCo Podcast

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. The crypto landscape has shifted dramatically from its idealistic beginnings to a more financially driven environment.
  2. While the rise of memecoins and speculation has tempered the initial techno-optimism, there's still significant development happening.
  3. The future of crypto hinges on the continued efforts of the "builders," who maintain a belief in the transformative power of blockchain technology.
  4. The initial promise of crypto was about technological disruption, not just financial gains.
  5. The current focus on memecoins and speculation represents a departure from this original vision.
  6. The continued presence of "builders" suggests that the potential for positive change still exists within the crypto space.
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March 24, 2025

Live From DAS: JitoSOL, Staked ETFs, and the Future of Solana Governance | Lucas Bruder

0xResearch

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Regulatory clarity is improving, with a potential shift towards more constructive dialogue between regulators and the crypto industry.
  2. Staked ETFs are on the horizon, offering investors a superior product compared to existing non-staking ETFs.
  3. Solana's governance is evolving but requires further development to ensure adequate staker representation and participation.
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March 24, 2025

What It Takes To Build In Crypto | Stani Kulechov & Jack O'Holleran

Empire

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Building in crypto presents unique challenges related to novel tech, tokenomics, and community dynamics.
  2. Successful founders must balance long-term vision with the fast-paced, narrative-driven nature of the market.
  3. Capital efficiency is becoming increasingly important, with community fundraising offering a powerful alternative to traditional VC rounds.
  4. Crypto founders face a triple threat: building the product, managing tokenomics, and running a community like a rock band. Buckle up.
  5. Tokens can be a blessing and a curse.  Nail the community aspect and you’ve got a rocket. Mess it up and it’s a dumpster fire.
  6. Raise smart, not big. Find investors who get it, not just those who write checks.  Community rounds might be your secret weapon.
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March 24, 2025

Why Privacy Matters For Solana | Yannik Schrade

Lightspeed

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Archium represents a shift from basic transactional privacy to a more robust and versatile approach leveraging encrypted shared state, paving the way for complex applications on Solana.
  2. Archium’s stateless design and integration with Solana through CPI calls provide a seamless development experience and ensure efficiency.
  3. The Archium token incentivizes network participation and enables a dynamic supply and demand mechanism for computing power, while computations are paid for in SOL.
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