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AI Podcasts

October 30, 2025

"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **It's Not a Bubble, It's a Race.** The AI buildout is a rational, ROI-positive arms race funded by cash-rich giants. Unlike the dot-com era’s "dark fiber," today’s GPUs are fully utilized, generating immediate returns.
  2. **Sacrifice Margins or Die.** SaaS companies must abandon their obsession with 90% gross margins. In the AI era, lower margins signal that customers are actually using your product. Embrace them or become irrelevant.
  3. **The New Outcome Economy is Coming.** Business models will pivot from subscriptions to outcomes. AI will enable services to be priced on measurable results, from resolving a customer support ticket to booking the perfect vacation, squeezing inefficiency out of the market.
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October 29, 2025

Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Physical World is AI's Final Boss: The speed of AI progress is now governed by the speed of transformers, permits, and power plants. The biggest opportunities are in solving these hard, physical-world bottlenecks.
  2. Specialization is the Only Game in Town: General-purpose is dead. Lasting value will be created through specialized hardware, co-designed software, and tightly integrated systems that optimize for performance-per-watt.
  3. Founders, Ditch the Thin Wrappers: The most durable businesses will not be built on other companies' models. Instead, they will create deep, proprietary feedback loops where the product and the model improve each other.
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October 29, 2025

AI Agents, JPM Capitulates, Stablecoin Wars and the Fed Innovation: Bits + Bips

Unchained

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **AI is the Fed’s New Obsession.** The Fed's rate-cutting strategy is not just about inflation; it's a proactive measure against the "once in a generation" disruption AI poses to the white-collar labor market.
  2. **Stablecoins are a Geopolitical Tool.** The global race to issue stablecoins is on, but the US is inadvertently winning. The more the world tokenizes, the more demand there is for US Treasuries, cementing the dollar's dominance.
  3. **The Post-Retail Economy is Here.** The next major user demographic is not human—it's AI agents. These autonomous agents will conduct a massive volume of micropayments, creating an entirely new economic layer built on crypto rails.
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October 29, 2025

Bittensor Brief #13: Autoppia Subnet 36

Hash Rate pod - Bittensor $TAO & Subnets

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Train Hard, Fight Easy. Autoppia’s "Infinite Web Arena" is a novel approach to AI training, forcing agents to become robust and adaptable by continuously exposing them to digital chaos.
  2. Competition Breeds Excellence. The winner-take-all incentive model creates a hyper-competitive environment designed to accelerate innovation and rapidly advance the capabilities of AI agents on the network.
  3. Revenue Equals Buybacks. Autoppia’s business model creates a direct link between commercial success and token value. Every dollar earned from selling AI worker services directly translates into buying pressure for the subnet token.
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October 28, 2025

Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Personalization is the Killer App. The model’s breakthrough feature was zero-shot character consistency, creating an emotional connection that drove viral adoption. It proves utility is unlocked when technology feels personal.
  2. Focus on the Floor, Not the Ceiling. The next wave of value will come from improving the worst-case outputs, not just the best. This "lemon picking" is essential for building trust and enabling reliable, real-world applications beyond creative tinkering.
  3. Art is Intent; Models are Tools. AI’s role is to automate tedium, not replace creativity. The most compelling work will continue to come from skilled artists who use models to execute a specific vision, proving that the human with the idea remains irreplaceable.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Blind Spot is Unwritten Knowledge. The biggest barrier for AI in advanced problem-solving is accessing the "folklore" knowledge and intuition that experts build over a career but never write down.
  2. The Future of Math is a Promotion, Not Obsolescence. AI will act as a powerful assistant that handles rote tasks, pushing mathematicians to focus exclusively on creative and abstract thinking.
  3. The Next Revolution is AI-Powered Verification. Automated formal proof systems like Lean have the potential to eliminate errors from research papers, transforming peer review from a check on correctness to a judgment on a paper's novelty and impact.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Blind Spot is "Folklore": The next great challenge for AI isn't raw calculation, but acquiring the unwritten, intuitive "folklore knowledge" that separates experts from students.
  2. Mathematicians Become Creative Directors: As AI handles the technical grind, the human role in mathematics will shift from execution to creative direction—formulating novel problems and abstract models.
  3. The End of Errors: Formal verification tools like Lean, powered by AI translators, are on the verge of revolutionizing math by creating a fully verifiable, error-free database of human knowledge, changing how proofs are published and reviewed.
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October 28, 2025

The Best AI Agents are Competing for Rank (and Profit) | Andrew Hill, Recall CEO

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Needs a Referee. Agents are programmed to win, not necessarily to follow the rules. Their tendency to "game the system" makes external, on-chain verification protocols essential for alignment and trust.
  2. Trading is Just the Tip of the Spear. Crypto trading is the perfect initial use case due to its clear, objective metrics. The real goal is a decentralized "skill marketplace" where any organization can fund a competition to find the best agent for any task.
  3. The Platform War is Here. A battle is unfolding between closed ecosystems like OpenAI, which aim for platform lock-in, and an open, decentralized future. This creates a massive opportunity for neutral evaluation layers to become the definitive source of truth for AI performance.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Blind Spot is "Folklore Knowledge." AI excels at digesting published literature but fails on problems requiring unwritten, community-held intuition, which remains a key human advantage for now. Jitomirskaya predicts her problem will take AI 10-20 years to solve.
  2. Mathematicians Won't Be Replaced, They'll Be Upgraded. The future role of a mathematician is less about routine work and more about creative problem formulation. AI tools like Lean will handle verification, shifting peer review from "Is it correct?" to "Is it interesting?"
  3. Math May Become a Sport. If AI eventually masters creativity, the human practice of mathematics may persist like chess—an activity pursued for its intrinsic value and intellectual challenge, even if a machine is the undisputed world champion.
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Crypto Podcasts

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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March 28, 2025

Why MegaETH Trusts Ethereum’s Escape Hatch

The DCo Podcast

Crypto

Key Takeaways:


1. Trust Ethereum, Not Just the Rollup: MegaETH's security model fundamentally relies on users trusting Ethereum's liveness and escape hatch mechanism to guarantee fund safety and eventual transaction correctness, acknowledging its own lack of *real-time* censorship resistance.


2. Focus on Practical Guarantees: The emphasis shifts from the abstract ideal of "decentralization" to concrete properties like liveness and the *ability* to exit (censorship resistance), even if delayed via Ethereum settlement.


3. Modular Security is the Trend: MegaETH exemplifies the modular blockchain thesis where Layer 2 solutions inherit security from a robust base layer (Ethereum), with future developments likely deepening this integration (e.g., base/native rollups).


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March 27, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 102: Lyn Alden - 'Broken Money'

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Technological advancements significantly impact the monetary system, creating both opportunities and risks.
  2. The current dollar system, based on circular logic and continuous expansion, faces systemic fragility.
  3. Bitcoin's ability to offer fast, decentralized settlements represents a potential solution, but scalability and the quantum threat need to be addressed.
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March 26, 2025

The Foundation for Banking’s Next Evolution | Live From DAS

Bell Curve

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. The blockchain market is maturing, with revenue generation becoming a key valuation metric.
  2. User experience and customization are driving the evolution of smart contract platforms.
  3. Web3 banking and open finance are poised for significant growth, driven by evolving regulations and institutional adoption.
  4. Vault (formerly EOS) is positioning itself as a key player in the Web3 banking space,** emphasizing regulatory compliance, predictable transaction costs, and customizability.
  5. Investors should focus on blockchain projects that demonstrate real-world utility and generate revenue.**  Mere speculation and hype are no longer sufficient.
  6. The convergence of factors like Bitcoin scaling solutions, Bitcoin ETFs, and a more favorable regulatory environment is creating an inflection point for Web3 banking and open finance.
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March 28, 2025

Exchange Wars and the L.A. Vape Cabal w/ Threadguy

Steady Lads Podcast

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Crypto cycles between Wild West chaos and attempts at order. The recent meme coin frenzy and subsequent crashes highlight extreme extraction and market manipulation possibilities.
  2. Edge is Earned, Not Given: Sustainable crypto trading requires moving beyond gambling to actively cultivating specific advantages through deep research, network intelligence, or unique analytical frameworks.
  3. Content is a Double-Edged Sword:*While powerful for building presence, crypto content creation faces intense pressure, burnout risks, and ethical tightropes, especially when financial incentives align with hype.
  4. Decentralization Isn't Absolute: The Hyperliquid incident demonstrates that even DEXs may resort to centralized interventions under duress, blurring lines and prompting scrutiny from established CEX players feeling the competitive heat.
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March 28, 2025

The Institutional Crypto Gold Rush

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Institutions Have Arrived: Anticipated US regulation is greenlighting a wave of institutional capital, primarily targeting stablecoins and tokenized real-world assets.
  2. Yield is King for L1s: Forget competing with Bitcoin on moneyness; L1s like Ethereum must prove their value by capturing fees from the burgeoning on-chain economy.
  3. Decentralization Isn't Binary: Be critical of "decentralization theater"; protocols may sacrifice decentralization principles for expediency or survival, especially those with flawed insurance models.
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