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AI Podcasts

December 7, 2025

Tensor Logic "Unifies" AI Paradigms [Pedro Domingos]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tensor Logic provides a unified framework for AI, bridging the gap between symbolic AI and deep learning, offering improved reasoning, transparency, and efficiency.
  2. The language addresses the limitations of current AI systems, enabling reliable deduction and facilitating structure learning through gradient descent, paving the way for more interpretable and controllable AI.
  3. Tensor Logic has the potential to advance AI education by providing a single language for teaching the entire gamut of AI. Its gradual adoption path allows developers to integrate it into existing workflows.
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December 6, 2025

Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks at Bankless Summit

Bankless

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace X42 for Mass Adoption: Leverage the X42 standard to facilitate stablecoin adoption by integrating it into AI agent workflows, making crypto payments seamless and incentivizing business adoption.
  2. Design Bot-Friendly Markets with Auctions: Implement orderflow auctions and programmable privacy to create efficient and equitable markets, preventing front-running and spam while promoting transparency.
  3. Build with ZK for Scalable Computation: Utilize zero-knowledge technology to offload complex computations and enhance application privacy, unlocking new possibilities in DeFi and beyond.
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December 4, 2025

Akshat Jagga: Dippy AI Companions, Image/Video/Voice Inference, Embedded Ads, World Models | Ep. 73

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Media Inference: Dippy's strategic shift to media inference underscores the rising demand for multimodal AI experiences, presenting significant opportunities for innovation and monetization beyond text-based interactions.
  2. Prioritize Specialized Models: Focus on developing specialized AI models tailored to specific use cases, leveraging proprietary data to create unique value propositions that outperform generic, multimodal solutions.
  3. Monetize with Embedded Ads: Explore embedding personalized, context-aware advertisements within AI interactions as a viable and scalable monetization strategy, acknowledging the limitations of subscription-based models for mass consumer adoption.
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December 5, 2025

AI & Central Planning Are Propping Up the Economy | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on sectors backed by government policy and secular themes like metals and mining to lower internal volatility and stay ahead of potential inflation.
  2. Be wary of the market structure, especially with highly concentrated assets like MAG7, as high-frequency trading can amplify price abnormalities and systemic risks.
  3. Watch for policy shifts and potential bottlenecks in capacity build-out, commodities, and labor in the AI and energy sectors, which could catalyze significant market changes.
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December 5, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 147 - @dippy_ai $TAO Subnet 11

Hash Rate Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Experiential AI is exploding. User-driven interactive experiences are the future of entertainment and will rival traditional media consumption.
  2. BitTensor is now a competitive platform. The integration of subnets like Targon for inference showcases real-world enterprise use cases and cost-effective solutions, providing a compelling alternative to centralized providers.
  3. Community-Driven AI: User-generated content and interactive AI companions are creating new forms of social connection and entertainment, particularly for younger demographics.
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December 3, 2025

A Rosetta Stone for AI Benchmarks

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Current AI benchmarks are limited due to rapid saturation. The presented statistical framework addresses this by stitching together multiple benchmarks to provide a more comprehensive evaluation.
  2. The framework enables the tracking of model capabilities over time, offering insights into algorithmic improvements and forecasting potential AI advancements.
  3. Software improvements are rapidly accelerating AI development, requiring significantly fewer computational resources each year to achieve the same level of capability.
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December 4, 2025

Real On-Chain Agents? How Talus Solves What Crypto-AI Got Wrong

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. On-Chain Execution is Crucial: True crypto AI requires AI agents that operate entirely on-chain to maintain decentralization, verifiability, and auditability.
  2. Monetization is Key: For sustainable AI adoption, clear and viable business models are essential to drive value back to the creators and incentivize participation.
  3. Entertainment as a Catalyst: Leveraging entertainment through agent-versus-agent competitions can drive adoption and demonstrate the earning potential of AI agents, fostering a new AI entertainment economy.
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December 1, 2025

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Measure Usage, Not Just Spend. The biggest failure in enterprise AI is tracking software purchases as a proxy for progress. The focus must shift to measuring actual tool usage correlated with output.
  2. Solve for Fear, Not Features. Employee adoption hinges on psychological safety. The most powerful tools will fail if users are afraid of looking incompetent or getting fired for making a mistake.
  3. Competition Drives Augmentation, Not Unemployment. The "AI will take our jobs" narrative is a red herring. Companies will reinvest AI-driven productivity gains to crush competitors, not just to cut headcount.
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November 28, 2025

How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The "One Model" Thesis Is Dead.** The future belongs to a portfolio of specialized models. This creates distinct opportunities for both foundational labs and companies that can leverage proprietary data to build best-in-class models for niche applications.
  2. **Data Is the Ultimate Differentiator.** Reinforcement learning fine-tuning elevates proprietary data from a simple input for RAG systems to the core ingredient for building a defensible, state-of-the-art product.
  3. **Agents Will Specialize.** The agent ecosystem is bifurcating into two primary types: open-ended, creative agents for knowledge work and deterministic, procedural agents designed for enterprise automation where reliability and adherence to standard operating procedures are critical.
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Crypto Podcasts

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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January 13, 2026

Providing Token holders with Real Economic Rights with SOAR | Thomas Curry

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The unification of rights. The industry is moving away from "vague utility" toward hard-coded economic claims that institutional capital can actually model.
  2. Audit your portfolio for "Seniority." Prioritize projects that establish legal or smart-contract-based links to the underlying business entity rather than just "community" vibes.
  3. Real economic rights are the only way to attract the next wave of capital. If a token doesn't represent a claim on value, it is just a meme with extra steps.
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January 14, 2026

Hash Rate - Ep 152 - Loosh Subnet 78

Hash Rate Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "World Models" to "Reasoning Models" marks the end of the LLM-as-chatbot era. Capital is migrating toward systems that prioritize deterministic safety over raw statistical probability.
  2. Integrate deterministic ontologies into your agentic workflows to stop hallucinations at the architectural level. Use graph databases to provide structure that vector search lacks.
  3. The winner of the robotics race won't have the best motors. They will have the most relatable, ethically sound "brain" that humans actually trust in their homes.
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January 13, 2026

Playing the Right Games: Why Scores Quietly Replace Meaning

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Legibility Crisis: Global systems demand data which creates a gap between measurable outputs and actual value.
  2. Audit Your Scoreboards: List the metrics you track and identify the true beneficiary of that data.
  3. The Bottom Line: Success belongs to those who use high-scale systems without letting the numbers dictate their internal worth.
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January 13, 2026

Why Venezuela Likely Doesn't Have a $60 Billion Bitcoin Stash

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Monetary Sovereignty Migration. When states weaponize the financial system, capital migrates to censorship-resistant stablecoin layers.
  2. Monitor Remittance Corridors. Watch for the growth of non-custodial stablecoin wallets in high-inflation regions as a leading indicator for broader DeFi adoption.
  3. The Venezuelan story proves that while state-led crypto projects fail, the utility of Bitcoin and stablecoins is a permanent fixture in the global south.
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