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AI Podcasts

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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December 31, 2025

[State of MechInterp] SAEs in Production, Circuit Tracing, AI4Science, "Pragmatic" Interp — Goodfire

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from Black Box to Glass Box AI. Trust is the next moat, and interpretability is the tool to build it.
  2. Use feature probing for high-stakes monitoring. It is more effective and cheaper than using LLMs as judges for tasks like PII scrubbing.
  3. Understanding model internals is no longer just a safety research project. It is a production requirement for any builder deploying AI in regulated or high-stakes environments over the next 12 months.
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December 31, 2025

[State of Code Evals] After SWE-bench, Code Clash & SOTA Coding Benchmarks recap — John Yang

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from completion to agency means benchmarks are moving from static snapshots to active environments.
  2. Integrate unsolvable test cases into internal evaluations to measure model honesty.
  3. Success in AI coding depends on navigating the messy, interactive reality of production codebases rather than chasing high scores on memorized puzzles.
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December 31, 2025

[State of Research Funding] Beyond NSF, Slingshots, Open Frontiers — Andy Konwinski, Laude Institute

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The center of gravity in AI is moving from closed-door pre-training to open-source compound systems that prioritize context management.
  2. Identify research teams with long histories of collaboration and fund them before they incorporate to capture the highest upside.
  3. Open research is the only way to maintain a democratic and competitive AI ecosystem against both closed labs and international rivals.
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December 29, 2025

Beyond the Code: The Books That Shaped the Minds of AI Leaders

Turing Post

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from technology push to market pull requires builders to stop focusing on the stack and start obsessing over user psychology.
  2. Apply the Mom Test by asking users about their current workflows instead of pitching your solution. This prevents building expensive features that nobody uses.
  3. The next decade of AI will be won by those who understand the human condition as deeply as they understand the transformer architecture.
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December 29, 2025

Memory in LLMs: Weights and Activations - Jack Morris, Cornell

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: Moving from "In-Context Learning" to "Weight-Based Memory" to bypass the quadratic costs of attention.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Use synthetic data generation to augment your fine tuning sets and prevent the model from forgetting its base knowledge.
  3. RAG is a stopgap. The long term winners will be those who build "neural file systems" where the model inherently knows the data.
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December 29, 2025

Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The "Everything App" is a myth. We are moving from general chat boxes to agentic workspaces that operate across your entire software stack.
  2. Build opinionated. Use the current model quality to solve one specific, high-value workflow rather than competing for the general assistant crown.
  3. 2026 is the year of the builder. The infrastructure is ready, the compute tension is real for Labs, and the market is hungry for products with a soul.
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Crypto Podcasts

February 8, 2025

NS032 - dTAO Governance :: Vote in Progress :: Major Network Upgrade

Opentensor Foundation

DeFi
Crypto
Infrastructure

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Strategic Scaling: The dTAO vote introduces a robust framework for subnet expansion, balancing rapid growth with economic stability.
  • 2. Stable Tokenomics: The EMA-based TOA emission design ensures fair and tamper-resistant token distribution, safeguarding investor interests.
  • 3. Decentralized Governance: Active community participation is crucial for successful network upgrades, reinforcing BitTensor’s decentralized ethos.
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February 8, 2025

"The person who controls the memes controls the world" - Luca Netz

Bankless

Crypto
Others

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Meme coins are evolving into multifaceted entities that serve as cultural, community, and ecosystem pillars, offering diverse functionalities beyond their meme origins.
  • 2. Effective marketing strategies and compelling origin stories are crucial in building strong communities and driving the real-world adoption of meme coins.
  • 3. Controlling meme narratives is a powerful tool for influencing societal trends and can determine the global impact and success of a meme coin.
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