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AI Podcasts

June 19, 2025

Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Data is Your Edge: Proprietary data and sophisticated enrichment are becoming the most valuable assets, enabling superior AI-driven personalization and competitive advantage.
  2. Brand is Bedrock: In an increasingly automated world, a strong, trustworthy brand that delivers a human-centric experience will be the ultimate differentiator and source of customer loyalty.
  3. Orchestrate, Don't Just Operate: Marketing leaders must become master orchestrators of diverse AI tools and data systems, fostering deep collaboration between sales, marketing, and product to deliver seamless customer journeys.
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June 19, 2025

SN9 IOTA :: Bittensor :: competinng with ... Bittensor @ Louvre

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace the Chaos: Bittensor's "test-in-production" philosophy, fueled by adversarial miner behavior, is its superpower, driving rapid iteration and robust protocol development.
  2. Decentralized AI at Scale is Here: IOTA's distributed training approach for trillion-parameter models, coupled with innovative ownership models (like the "alpha token"), signals a shift towards democratized AI.
  3. The Network is the Product: Inter-subnet collaboration (e.g., Data Universe feeding IOTA) is creating a powerful, self-sustaining AI development ecosystem within Bittensor.
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June 18, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 118 - Siam Kidd of DSV $TAO Hedge Fund

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. TAO's Asymmetric Upside: Bitensor is presented as a once-in-a-generation investment, with institutional demand poised to significantly reprice TAO.
  2. Subnets are AI Startups: View subnets as individual AI startups; their success will drive TAO's value, but their tokenomics mean TAO itself is the primary value accrual mechanism for large price moves.
  3. Liquidity is King (for Subnets): The growth of subnet valuations and broader participation hinges on solving liquidity depth issues within subnet pools.
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June 18, 2025

subnet tokens on bittenor are the next ethereum ico boom

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Asymmetric Opportunity: BitTensor subnets provide exposure to AI innovation comparable to billion-dollar startups but at a fraction of their market caps.
  2. Volatility is a Feature, Not a Bug: Expect significant price swings, reminiscent of early crypto. The long-term potential can dwarf initial entry points.
  3. The Access Arbitrage: The current complexity of the BitTensor ecosystem creates an "early bird" advantage for those who can navigate it, potentially leading to outsized returns.
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June 17, 2025

Harry Dewhirst: What If the Physical World Had an API? — 375ai, DePIN, and Real-Time Data for AI

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. 375AI’s targeted deployment in high-value zones yields monetizable data from the outset, sidestepping the "build it and they will come" pitfall common in DePIN.
  2. For real-world sensor networks, processing data locally on devices is paramount for user privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.
  3. AI models, especially LLMs, are hungry for real-time, high-fidelity data about the physical environment, creating a massive opportunity for networks like 375AI.
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June 17, 2025

Oxford Professor: "AIs are strange new minds"

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Reality Hack: Supervised learning allows AIs to understand the world via language alone, a game-changer forcing us to rethink intelligence beyond sensory input.
  2. The Autonomy Trap: The rise of agentic, personalized AIs that act for us threatens unforeseen systemic chaos and could amplify individuals' most dangerous beliefs.
  3. Our Faustian Pact with AI: We're trading authenticity and control for AI-driven convenience, risking a "gradual disempowerment" where human agency is systematically diminished.
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June 16, 2025

AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Nuance: AI traffic isn't monolithic. Develop granular controls to allow beneficial AI while blocking malicious actors, understanding that AI can be a customer.
  2. Layer Your Defenses: Combine traditional methods with modern fingerprinting and identity verification, preparing for a future where AI analyzes traffic in real time.
  3. Context is King: Security decisions must be deeply integrated with application logic to avoid harming user experience or revenue.
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June 16, 2025

AI Model's Adaptability & Real World Potential

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Adaptability is King:** The model’s capacity to "course correct" and "power through" challenges is a pivotal advancement, promising more robust AI.
  2. **Real-World Agents Incoming:** This enhanced model is poised to accelerate the development of AI agents capable of practical, impactful tasks.
  3. **Hands-On for Breakthroughs:** The true potential will be realized as developers dive in, experiment, and translate these new capabilities into innovative applications.
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June 16, 2025

AI Will Bring Billions of Capital On-Chain — Here's How

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Web2 Leads the Charge: Anticipate major Web2 companies leveraging their user base and trust to be the primary drivers bringing AI-powered capital on-chain initially.
  2. Agents are the Future: AI agents will be the killer app for crypto, finally delivering applications with mainstream utility and revenue potential.
  3. Parallel Evolution: The growth of AI in crypto will see Web2 institutional adoption and native crypto AI agent development advance simultaneously, creating a compounding effect on innovation and capital inflow.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 2, 2025

LIVE | CRYPTO TRENDS WITH ALANA FROM VARIANT | 0xResearch

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. DEXs are Eating the World. The on-chain asset explosion has permanently shifted trading gravity. Centralized exchanges must now integrate with DeFi or risk becoming irrelevant islands.
  2. Stablecoins are the New Gift Cards. The move to "branded money" will create a fragmented landscape. The next billion-dollar opportunity is not in issuing another stablecoin, but in building the interoperability rails that make them all work together seamlessly.
  3. Distribution is the New Defensibility. As stablecoin issuance becomes commoditized, the winners will be those with massive distribution networks (like Stripe) who can embed their currency into everyday user flows.
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December 1, 2025

The Holy Grail of Crypto Privacy: Encrypted Ethereum, FHE & Living Forever

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. FHE is crypto’s HTTPS moment. Just as HTTPS made secure browsing the default, FHE is positioned to bring end-to-end encryption to all blockchain transactions, solving a fundamental flaw without forcing users to change their behavior.
  2. Privacy is coming for your wallet, not a new chain. The "holy grail" is integrating confidentiality directly into the user's existing workflow on mainnet Ethereum. Forget bridging; the future is an "incognito mode" for your current assets.
  3. Institutional demand will drive retail privacy. The need for financial institutions like JPMorgan to protect their trades on-chain is the catalyst that will finally make robust privacy tools a standard feature for everyone.
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November 29, 2025

In Defense of Exponentials – Haseeb Reads His Viral Essay – The Chopping Block

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stop Applying Linear Valuations to Exponential Tech.** Judging Ethereum on its P/E ratio is like criticizing Amazon in 1999 for its lack of profits. It’s a category error. Value chains based on their probability of capturing a piece of a future trillion-dollar system.
  2. **The Prize Is Worth Winning.** The entire investment case for new L1s hinges on the belief that incumbents like Ethereum and Solana are immensely valuable. If they are, then a small probability of becoming the next one justifies a multi-billion dollar valuation today.
  3. **Zoom Out and Believe.** The current market is trapped in short-term cynicism. The real alpha comes from adopting a Silicon Valley mindset over a Wall Street one, recognizing that you are living through a technological revolution on par with the early internet.
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November 28, 2025

Can ‘Choose Rich’ Nick Create the Barstool Sports of Crypto?

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Weaponize cringe for distribution. The ‘Choose Rich Nick’ model proves that being the butt of the joke is a powerful growth hack. Manufacturing moments that invite mockery creates a viral loop of outrage and engagement that funnels attention to the core business.
  2. Authenticity is a liability. The most successful stunts are meticulously planned fabrications. From fake girlfriends to staged yacht expulsions, the goal isn't to be real but to create a compelling narrative that the internet can’t ignore.
  3. Success hinges on ambiguity. The content is designed to polarize. Its virality depends on a split audience: one half gets the joke and celebrates the performance, while the other half takes it at face value, fueling the outrage machine that drives impressions.
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November 28, 2025

Klarna Launches A Stablecoin, Hyperliquid Perps & The Prediction Market Wars | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Fintech is the New On-Ramp. Giants like Klarna are adopting stablecoins for economic utility, not speculation. This signals a new wave of adoption driven by real-world efficiency gains.
  2. Re-evaluate Your Valuations. The massive valuation gap between a fintech like Klarna and an L1 like Solana forces a critical question: will value accrue to the rails or the businesses that use them to serve hundreds of millions of customers?
  3. Distribution is Undefeated. Robinhood’s move to sideline its partner Kalshi proves that owning the customer relationship is the ultimate moat, a crucial lesson for infrastructure projects reliant on third-party distribution.
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November 27, 2025

Anthony Sassano on Why This Cycle Isn’t Playing Out Like the Last Ones

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Old Playbooks Are Obsolete. This isn't your 2021 bull run. The four-year cycle is broken, institutional flows have altered market dynamics, and historical patterns are no longer reliable predictors of future performance.
  2. Ethereum Is Entering Hyper-Scale. A relentless upgrade cadence is simultaneously scaling both L1 (via gas limit increases) and L2s (via blob scaling), even before the ZK revolution delivers another 100x+ throughput boost to the mainnet.
  3. Adaptability Is the Ultimate Security. Existential threats like quantum computing are moving from science fiction to near-term reality. Ethereum's culture of continuous improvement is its greatest defense, while chains resistant to change face a brewing crisis.
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