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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

January 21, 2026

Quadrillions: How to Win the World | Chris Maurice

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from public peer-to-peer narratives to private B2B infrastructure that connects local bonds to global stablecoins.
  2. Build for the back end of the product by integrating with local financial institutions that already own the user relationship.
  3. The next year will see the rise of global dollar-denominated accounts, making the US dollar a truly borderless commodity.
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January 21, 2026

Market Structure, Macro Volatility, and the Next Phase of Crypto | Michael Anderson & Vance Spencer

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from L1 wars to on-chain businesses means capital is moving toward protocols with clear revenue-sharing models.
  2. Monitor Bitmine’s ETH accumulation and the launch of Blackwell GPU clusters. Position in protocols that bridge the gap between AI infrastructure financing and stablecoin liquidity.
  3. The next year belongs to the capital assassins who can blend meme-driven distribution with hard-nosed corporate finance.
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January 20, 2026

LIVE: MegaETH, Pump, NYSE | 0xResearch

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Migration: Value is moving from base layers to applications that own the end-user relationship. This transition favors integrated platforms over modular protocols.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor platforms that successfully integrate vertical services like Phantom or Pump.fun. These Everything Apps are the most likely candidates for sustainable revenue growth.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next six months will favor teams that prioritize revenue and user stickiness over speculative token launches.
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January 19, 2026

Why Grayscale Sees ATHs Before Q3, With ETH Outperforming: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The erosion of central bank independence turns fiscal debt into a marketing campaign for hard-capped digital assets.
  2. Accumulate Ethereum and top-tier smart contract platforms that offer staking yields before the $40 trillion advised wealth pool begins its structural rotation.
  3. The next year will be defined by the transition from speculative retail trading to structural institutional accumulation driven by a global flight from debasing fiat.
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January 16, 2026

Claude Code, Stablecoin Adoption, and 2026 Trends | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI-driven productivity is meeting institutional stablecoin adoption to create hyper-efficient financial services.
  2. Integrate AI-assisted coding into every department to maintain a lean headcount.
  3. Success in the next cycle requires the grit to build through the quiet periods and the agility to utilize AI for rapid product iteration.
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January 14, 2026

$250M & $500M M&A talks, Neo finance category update, lots of action in DC ft. Polygon

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The rotation from metals to equities then crypto is accelerating as fiat debasement becomes the only political option.
  2. Prioritize "exogenous yield" protocols that bridge real-world revenue on-chain to capture non-inflationary returns.
  3. The next 12 months will see crypto move from an isolated casino to the primary infrastructure for the global financial system.
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