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AI Podcasts

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

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

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 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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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 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 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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Crypto Podcasts

November 21, 2025

Is It All Over? What The Markets Are Saying For 2026

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Four-Year Cycle is Dead. The market is no longer driven by simple cyclical hype. Macro headwinds and competition for attention from AI mean investors must focus on projects with demonstrable utility, not just memetic potential.
  2. Ethereum Gets Pragmatic. The Ethereum ecosystem is ditching idealism for execution, re-focusing on scaling its core infrastructure (L1) and building products with clear, real-world use cases for both consumers and institutions.
  3. Institutions are Buying the Dip. Don't mistake retail fear for institutional exit. From Harvard's massive ETF allocation to Kraken's IPO plans, smart money is using the downturn to secure its position in the industry's foundational layers.
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November 20, 2025

Hivemind: Can Crypto Bounce, Monad's ICO & The Perp Opportunity

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capital Efficiency Is King. In the perps world, platforms offering unified margin will win. Aggregators that fragment capital are a structural disadvantage, making trading terminals the more logical endgame.
  2. Onboard Hobbies, Not Traders. Crypto’s growth depends on moving beyond unsustainable, zero-sum trading narratives. The next million users will be onboarded through "hobbyified" social and entertainment apps, not another DEX.
  3. Cash Now, Builders Later. In this environment, cash is king. Use this quiet period to identify teams grinding through the bear market, especially those with performance-locked incentives like MetaDAO projects. They are the asymmetric bets of the next cycle.
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November 20, 2025

The Future of Institutional Crypto (What Banks Actually Need)

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Solve the Privacy Bug.** Institutions will not move sensitive operations onto fully transparent ledgers. The future is permissioned visibility, where regulators and involved parties can see data, but the public cannot.
  2. **Composability is the Killer App.** The true unlock for on-chain finance is the ability to atomically combine different assets and workflows without operational risk. Fragmented L2s endanger this core value proposition.
  3. **The Next Wave is Capital Markets Infrastructure.** The long-term moat for any network targeting institutional finance is not just its tech, but its ecosystem of interconnected banks, funds, and market makers operating in a compliant, private environment.
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November 19, 2025

Why Cross-Border Flows Matter More Than Rate Cuts | Capital Flows

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Stop Obsessing Over the Fed. The dominant force driving market liquidity is the geopolitical rivalry between the U.S. and China, which dictates massive cross-border capital flows and underpins U.S. asset valuations.
  2. This Is a Repricing, Not a Recession. The current market drawdown is a healthy positioning unwind, not a crisis. The lack of a fear bid in long-term bonds signals this is an opportunity to buy the dip in a structural bull market.
  3. Bitcoin Failed the Safe-Haven Test. Gold remains the premier asset for hedging geopolitical risk. Bitcoin has demonstrated it is a high-beta risk asset, with its recent rally driven more by speculative corporate treasury activity than a fundamental macro role.
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November 18, 2025

How Pudgy Penguins Could Become a $1,000,000,000 Brand

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Value is Decoupling from EBITDA. A brand's true worth is increasingly measured by its cultural impact, not just its revenue. Tokenization provides the mechanism to price and trade this cultural capital.
  2. Memecoins are a Feature, Not a Bug. They are the earliest, purest form of tokenized culture, proving that a financial layer can supercharge a community's growth and alignment.
  3. Invest in Cultural Arbitrage. The biggest opportunities are in projects and brands whose cultural influence dramatically outweighs their current financial metrics. This gap between impact and income is where tokenization creates exponential value.
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November 18, 2025

Bitcoin Breaks $95k, Crypto’s Valuation Problem, & The Path To Real On-Chain Users

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Short Everything But Bitcoin.** The vast majority of crypto assets trade at unjustifiable multiples based on cyclical, speculative revenue. Bitcoin, as a "digital gold" macro hedge, is the only asset with a durable investment thesis that stands apart from the overvalued tech plays.
  2. **The L1 Thesis is Dead.** Investing in L1s is a bet on obsolete infrastructure. Future returns will be captured by killer applications that build real businesses and bring non-speculative users on-chain, not by the commoditized blockspace they run on.
  3. **Acquire Users, Don't Wait For Them.** Crypto's central problem is its failure to grow its user base. The winning strategy is to buy existing businesses with real customers and integrate blockchain technology, thereby acquiring distribution rather than trying to build it from scratch in a hyper-competitive market.
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