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AI Podcasts

November 4, 2025

ElevenLabs CEO: Why Voice is the Next AI Interface

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Structure Dictates Speed:** A flat hierarchy with small, autonomous teams is the key to maintaining startup velocity at scale. Extreme ownership is the goal; traditional corporate structures are the enemy.
  2. **Align Incentives, Explicitly:** As a company matures, passion gives way to process. In sales, commissions become a lagging indicator of strategy. Ensure incentive structures explicitly reward strategic decisions, not just closing any deal.
  3. **Balance Ambition with Delivery:** Don't let the quest for a perfect, research-led solution kill your product momentum. Implement clear rules to decide when to ship a practical fix now and when to wait for the scientific breakthrough.
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November 3, 2025

When AI Agents Start Building the Protocol | Recall Labs

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Skill Markets are the New Talent Pools: Protocols can now create bespoke competitions to source top-tier AI agents for specialized tasks, bypassing traditional R&D cycles and finding the best "minds" for the job.
  2. The Protocol Will Build Itself: Recall's endgame is a self-improving system where AI agents compete to write and enhance the code of the very protocol they operate on, blurring the line between user and creator.
  3. Performance Becomes the Contract: The future of AI work is a meritocracy where competitive arenas are directly tied to real capital and business lines, automatically allocating work to the most capable agents.
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November 3, 2025

Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Unleash Innovation to Win. America's path to AI supremacy is through deregulation, abundant energy, and aggressive global exports. Over-regulating our own companies simply hands markets and momentum to China.
  2. Fight for an Open AI Ecosystem. The most pressing AI threat is not existential risk but the creation of a centralized, Orwellian control system. This is enabled by regulatory capture and "woke AI" mandates disguised as safety.
  3. Crypto Needs Clarity, Not Chaos. While AI requires a light touch, the crypto industry needs the opposite: clear, stable, and legislated rules. Ending the "regulation by enforcement" era is critical to bringing innovation back onshore and establishing the U.S. as the world's crypto capital.
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November 3, 2025

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Human data is the critical asset. The most valuable—and least glamorous—layer of the AI stack is human intelligence. Its scale, importance, and economic value will only grow.
  2. The future is human-in-the-loop. The next phase of AI development will be defined by agent-human interaction, where automated systems can call upon verified human experts on demand for review and guidance.
  3. Expertise will be licensed. The economic model is shifting toward a future where human expertise can be licensed, allowing individuals to earn passive income for contributing their knowledge to improve AI, much like Spotify pays artists for their music.
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October 31, 2025

All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner

Bg2 Pod

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Power is the New Bottleneck: The critical constraint in the AI race is no longer chips, but energy and the physical infrastructure to deploy them at scale.
  2. Microsoft's Multi-Layered Bet: Microsoft's value from the OpenAI partnership extends far beyond its equity, encompassing exclusive Azure services, massive IP advantages, and a halo effect that pulls enterprise workloads from competitors.
  3. The Golden Age of Margin Expansion: AI will enable a new productivity curve where companies grow revenue far faster than headcount, fundamentally reshaping workflows and corporate economics.
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October 31, 2025

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's creative power is judged against an impossible standard. Focus on its ability to remix and generate at a scale that surpasses 99.9% of human output, which is where the true value lies.
  2. The future of AI is not just software but hardware. The next battleground is robotics, where China's industrial ecosystem provides a massive advantage that could eclipse the US software lead.
  3. The ultimate AI products haven't been invented yet. The biggest opportunities lie not in perfecting today's chatbots but in creating the entirely new user experiences that will define the next decade.
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October 29, 2025

(Real World) Data is the New Oil with 375ai | Harry Dewhirst

Proof of Coverage Media

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Surgical Precision Over Brute Force: 375ai’s model proves that DePIN isn’t just about network size. Strategic placement of high-power hardware can deliver more valuable data with a fraction of the infrastructure.
  2. Go Where the Money Is: Instead of building a demand side from scratch, 375ai is plugging directly into existing data marketplaces, giving them instant access to enterprise giants and a clear path to revenue.
  3. Revenue Directly Fuels the Token: The 80% buy-and-burn mechanism is a powerful flywheel. As data sales grow, so does the direct value accrual to EAT token holders, creating one of the most direct links between utility and tokenomics in the space.
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October 30, 2025

What Is Recall Network? The CEO Explains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Verification Is the New Moat.** In a world flooded with AI agents, the ability to prove performance is the most critical bottleneck. Recall’s protocol creates a "proof-of-skill" standard.
  2. **From Hype to Hire.** The platform shifts the paradigm from speculative AI hype to a functional marketplace where businesses can effectively "hire" agents with a proven track record for specific, economically valuable tasks.
  3. **Performance Is the Asset.** By scoring agents based on consistent, real-world results, Recall provides a clear signal for organizations looking to deploy AI and for investors seeking to back top performers.
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October 31, 2025

The Fed's Hawkish Cut & The Financial Hunger Games | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Fed Is Trapped:** Powell is trying to project strength, but the underlying trend is toward more liquidity. The pivot to buying T-bills is a form of stealth QE designed to keep the system functioning.
  2. **Markets Are A Rigged Game:** Forget fundamentals. Public markets are now a positioning game defined by extreme concentration in Big Tech and speculative retail frenzies, widening the gap between Wall Street and Main Street.
  3. **The AI Boom Is A Double-Edged Sword:** While driving incredible earnings, the AI buildout is transforming Big Tech into a riskier, debt-fueled, capex-heavy industry, making the entire economy dangerously dependent on a handful of stocks.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 24, 2026

Gold Sets the Bar, But Bitcoin Can Catch Up. Here’s How: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The institutionalization of Bitcoin has temporarily sacrificed its digital gold status for liquidity, creating a massive opportunity for those who can stomach the volatility before the next decoupling.
  2. Monitor Japanese government bond yields as a leading indicator for global risk tolerance.
  3. Bitcoin is currently a liquidity sponge, not a bunker. Expect it to follow the Trump Put and tech earnings until its volatility profile mirrors a currency rather than a speculative stock.
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January 23, 2026

The Intersection of AI and Crypto: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What’s Next | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The market is moving from the "Compute Layer" to the "Agentic Layer." Owning the GPU is less valuable than owning the agent that controls the wallet.
  2. Build agent-first interfaces. Stop designing for human clicks and start structuring your data so an LLM can execute transactions on your behalf.
  3. The next 12 months belong to on-chain agents that handle treasury ops and commerce. The "decentralized GPU" narrative is dead. The "AI Agent with a bank account" narrative is just beginning.
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January 23, 2026

The “Quantum Threat” Behind Bitcoin’s Sudden Sell-Off

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from global cooperation to regional protectionism is driving a capital outflow loop that favors hard assets over sovereign debt.
  2. Monitor the development of quantum-resistant signatures on alternative L1s to hedge against Bitcoin’s potential cryptographic obsolescence.
  3. The next year will be defined by the race to tokenize real-world assets and the struggle to maintain protocol relevance as TradFi giants enter the arena.
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January 22, 2026

DePIN’s Biggest New Deal: Valeo x NATIX | Alireza Ghods

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from digital-only AI to Physical AI requires a massive bridge of high-fidelity video data.
  2. Monitor DePIN projects that move from "map-to-earn" to "train-to-earn" for foundational models.
  3. NATIX is no longer just a mapping company; it is the data refinery for the next generation of autonomous machines.
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January 21, 2026

Markets Are Entering A Wartime Economy | Cem Karsan

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from a supply-side model to a populist-driven wartime economy makes inflation a permanent feature rather than a bug.
  2. Rotate out of traditional portfolios into non-correlated volatility strategies and hard assets.
  3. The next decade belongs to those who recognize that the rules-based order has been replaced by a raw competition for strategic resources.
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January 21, 2026

How Nansen’s New Trading Agent Makes It Easier to Follow the Smart Money Onchain

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The commoditization of technical infrastructure means alpha moves from who has the data to who has the best prompts.
  2. Test agentic workflows with small capital amounts to identify where natural language outperforms manual execution.
  3. The next 12 months will see a transition from manual click-and-sign trading to intent-based portfolio management.
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