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AI Podcasts

October 29, 2025

Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Physical World is AI's Final Boss: The speed of AI progress is now governed by the speed of transformers, permits, and power plants. The biggest opportunities are in solving these hard, physical-world bottlenecks.
  2. Specialization is the Only Game in Town: General-purpose is dead. Lasting value will be created through specialized hardware, co-designed software, and tightly integrated systems that optimize for performance-per-watt.
  3. Founders, Ditch the Thin Wrappers: The most durable businesses will not be built on other companies' models. Instead, they will create deep, proprietary feedback loops where the product and the model improve each other.
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October 29, 2025

AI Agents, JPM Capitulates, Stablecoin Wars and the Fed Innovation: Bits + Bips

Unchained

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **AI is the Fed’s New Obsession.** The Fed's rate-cutting strategy is not just about inflation; it's a proactive measure against the "once in a generation" disruption AI poses to the white-collar labor market.
  2. **Stablecoins are a Geopolitical Tool.** The global race to issue stablecoins is on, but the US is inadvertently winning. The more the world tokenizes, the more demand there is for US Treasuries, cementing the dollar's dominance.
  3. **The Post-Retail Economy is Here.** The next major user demographic is not human—it's AI agents. These autonomous agents will conduct a massive volume of micropayments, creating an entirely new economic layer built on crypto rails.
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October 29, 2025

Bittensor Brief #13: Autoppia Subnet 36

Hash Rate pod - Bittensor $TAO & Subnets

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Train Hard, Fight Easy. Autoppia’s "Infinite Web Arena" is a novel approach to AI training, forcing agents to become robust and adaptable by continuously exposing them to digital chaos.
  2. Competition Breeds Excellence. The winner-take-all incentive model creates a hyper-competitive environment designed to accelerate innovation and rapidly advance the capabilities of AI agents on the network.
  3. Revenue Equals Buybacks. Autoppia’s business model creates a direct link between commercial success and token value. Every dollar earned from selling AI worker services directly translates into buying pressure for the subnet token.
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October 28, 2025

Google DeepMind Developers: How Nano Banana Was Made

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Personalization is the Killer App. The model’s breakthrough feature was zero-shot character consistency, creating an emotional connection that drove viral adoption. It proves utility is unlocked when technology feels personal.
  2. Focus on the Floor, Not the Ceiling. The next wave of value will come from improving the worst-case outputs, not just the best. This "lemon picking" is essential for building trust and enabling reliable, real-world applications beyond creative tinkering.
  3. Art is Intent; Models are Tools. AI’s role is to automate tedium, not replace creativity. The most compelling work will continue to come from skilled artists who use models to execute a specific vision, proving that the human with the idea remains irreplaceable.
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October 28, 2025

The Best AI Agents are Competing for Rank (and Profit) | Andrew Hill, Recall CEO

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Needs a Referee. Agents are programmed to win, not necessarily to follow the rules. Their tendency to "game the system" makes external, on-chain verification protocols essential for alignment and trust.
  2. Trading is Just the Tip of the Spear. Crypto trading is the perfect initial use case due to its clear, objective metrics. The real goal is a decentralized "skill marketplace" where any organization can fund a competition to find the best agent for any task.
  3. The Platform War is Here. A battle is unfolding between closed ecosystems like OpenAI, which aim for platform lock-in, and an open, decentralized future. This creates a massive opportunity for neutral evaluation layers to become the definitive source of truth for AI performance.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Blind Spot is Unwritten Knowledge. The biggest barrier for AI in advanced problem-solving is accessing the "folklore" knowledge and intuition that experts build over a career but never write down.
  2. The Future of Math is a Promotion, Not Obsolescence. AI will act as a powerful assistant that handles rote tasks, pushing mathematicians to focus exclusively on creative and abstract thinking.
  3. The Next Revolution is AI-Powered Verification. Automated formal proof systems like Lean have the potential to eliminate errors from research papers, transforming peer review from a check on correctness to a judgment on a paper's novelty and impact.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Blind Spot is "Folklore": The next great challenge for AI isn't raw calculation, but acquiring the unwritten, intuitive "folklore knowledge" that separates experts from students.
  2. Mathematicians Become Creative Directors: As AI handles the technical grind, the human role in mathematics will shift from execution to creative direction—formulating novel problems and abstract models.
  3. The End of Errors: Formal verification tools like Lean, powered by AI translators, are on the verge of revolutionizing math by creating a fully verifiable, error-free database of human knowledge, changing how proofs are published and reviewed.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Blind Spot is "Folklore Knowledge." AI excels at digesting published literature but fails on problems requiring unwritten, community-held intuition, which remains a key human advantage for now. Jitomirskaya predicts her problem will take AI 10-20 years to solve.
  2. Mathematicians Won't Be Replaced, They'll Be Upgraded. The future role of a mathematician is less about routine work and more about creative problem formulation. AI tools like Lean will handle verification, shifting peer review from "Is it correct?" to "Is it interesting?"
  3. Math May Become a Sport. If AI eventually masters creativity, the human practice of mathematics may persist like chess—an activity pursued for its intrinsic value and intellectual challenge, even if a machine is the undisputed world champion.
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October 27, 2025

AI can learn logic. But can it learn folklore knowledge? - Svetlana Jitomirskaya

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Folklore Knowledge is AI’s Next Frontier. The true test for advanced AI in abstract fields is not solving problems from a textbook but acquiring the unwritten, intuitive knowledge that experts possess.
  2. Automated Proof Verification Will Reshape Research. Within years, tools like Lean, powered by AI translators, will create a verifiable database of all mathematics, fundamentally changing how papers are published and refereed.
  3. Human + Machine is the New Paradigm. AI will become an indispensable assistant, automating routine work and pushing mathematicians to focus on what humans still do best: true creativity and formulating entirely new models.
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Crypto Podcasts

November 7, 2025

Finding Alpha In Crypto, Mamdani Wins & The AI Gold Rush | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Ditch the Alts, Buy the Adopters.** The most compelling risk/reward is no longer in L1 tokens but in publicly traded companies effectively integrating blockchain. Think Stripe and Robinhood, not the 25th-largest token on CoinMarketCap.
  2. **Follow the Gamble.** The "gambling energy" from disillusioned younger generations is a powerful market force. That capital has pivoted from crypto to AI. The best trades lie in narratives that capture this retail attention.
  3. **Conviction Over Diversification.** In a market with no consensus, holding a portfolio of "pretty good" assets is a losing strategy. Raise cash by cutting low-conviction plays and concentrate firepower in your highest-conviction ideas.
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November 7, 2025

Bull Market or Fakeout Top? Haseeb’s Crypto Cycle Take

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Is The Only Game In Town: The crypto market is currently a passenger in a macro environment dictated by AI. Until that capital rotation shifts, crypto will likely remain highly correlated and susceptible to sell-offs when equities show weakness.
  2. Bitcoin’s Handover Is Bullish: Don't mistake consolidation for a bear market. Bitcoin is undergoing a healthy ownership transfer from early believers to new institutions, building a stronger, deeper foundation for its next leg up.
  3. Decentralization Is About Coercion, Not Paralysis: The ability of a chain’s validators to collectively intervene in a catastrophic hack is a feature, not a bug. True decentralization is measured by a network's ability to resist external pressure, not its inability to make collective decisions.
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November 6, 2025

How Ethereum Will Integrate Into TradFi Infrastructure with Vivek Raman

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH's Value is Foundational, Not Fickle. The core investment thesis is ETH as the digital economy's pristine collateral and store of value. Network revenue is just the icing on the cake.
  2. The Real Work is Boring (and Bullish). The next phase of growth depends on integrating Ethereum into the mundane back-office operations of TradFi. This is the key to irreversible adoption.
  3. Privacy is the Next Frontier. Compliant, ZK-powered privacy is the final gateway required to bring massive institutional capital on-chain.
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November 6, 2025

Massive Selloff, Mamdani Wins, & Jonah Ditches His CryptoPunk

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. System Over Gut. Max’s systematic models correctly identified the top and signaled a buy on the recent dip. In volatile markets, outsourcing conviction to an algorithm removes emotion and highlights clear entry/exit points.
  2. Turn Losses Into Liquidity. Jonah’s CryptoPunk sale demonstrates a crucial strategy: use tax-loss harvesting to turn underwater positions into immediate, deployable capital. A paper loss can become a real financial gain.
  3. Watch Politics, Not Just Charts. The biggest long-term threat to your portfolio isn’t a broken chart pattern; it’s a political paradigm shift. The rise of redistributionism is a slow-burn risk that could eventually dwarf any market cycle.
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November 5, 2025

Massive Selloff, Mamdani Wins, & Jonah Ditches His CryptoPunk

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. OGs are cashing out. Heavy selling pressure above $120k comes from early Bitcoin whales transferring wealth to "fair-weather" DAT holders, creating a fragile market structure.
  2. Politics now dictate portfolio risk. Zohran Mamdani’s rise signals a shift to redistributionist politics. If this trend goes national, it’s a clear signal to liquidate assets, as redistribution historically crushes asset prices.
  3. Invest in clean assets with real yield. In a market saturated with VC-owned tokens, assets like Hyperliquid (HYPE) stand out due to their airdrop-only distribution and fee-driven buy-and-burn mechanism, creating a direct link between platform usage and token value.
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November 5, 2025

fomo: Paul and Se

Archetype

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Social Proof is the New Alpha. FOMO’s core bet is that transparently tracking successful wallets is a more powerful discovery mechanism than traditional research. By making on-chain activity legible and social, it unlocks a new paradigm for retail investing.
  2. User Experience Wins the Next Cycle. The next 100 million crypto users will not be onboarded with seed phrases and gas fees. By abstracting away all technical friction and mirroring the seamlessness of Web2 apps, FOMO provides a blueprint for mass adoption.
  3. Trading is Becoming a Spectator Sport. By turning trading performance into a form of content, FOMO is building a new financial creator economy. The best traders are the new influencers, and their alpha is the content that drives the entire ecosystem.
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