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AI Podcasts

April 3, 2025

Mark Jeffrey: Bittensor, Crypto Investments, AI Innovation, Subnet Tokens, Market Trends | Ep. 35

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Invest in Access: The largest bottleneck—and opportunity—in Bittensor is user experience. Simple, intuitive interfaces for subnet discovery and investment are critical to unlocking value.
  2. Bet on Specialization: Decentralized, niche AI models on Bittensor subnets hold significant potential, mirroring historical tech shifts. Current low market caps may present a unique entry point.
  3. Follow Free AI to Physical Form: As AI software becomes increasingly powerful and commoditized (free), the most significant value capture will likely occur in its physical applications, particularly humanoid robots.
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April 3, 2025

AI & Robotics Stealing Crypto's Thunder? | EP 73

Good Game Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Hype is Real: AI & Robotics advancements are genuinely capturing attention and capital, fueled by tangible progress (FSD, coding tools, new models), while crypto seeks its next major narrative beyond incremental TradFi integration.
  2. Crypto Wars Turn Inward: The main crypto battleground is now internal: CEXs vs. DEXs vs. TradFi entrants like Robin Hood fighting over the same trading and stablecoin pie, leading to aggressive competitive tactics.
  3. AI Lowers Startup Barriers: AI tools drastically cut the cost and complexity of building software, enabling smaller, nimbler teams (even non-technical founders) to launch "micro-apps" and potentially "micro-unicorns," while disrupting traditional education and junior professional roles.
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April 3, 2025

ChatGPT's Viral Explosion: 1 Million Users In... 60 Minutes

Bankless

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hyper-Acceleration: AI adoption and feature deployment cycles are compressing dramatically, from days to minutes for millions of users.
  2. Infrastructure Resilience: Despite market fears, investment in core AI infrastructure like GPU compute (e.g., CoreWeave) remains exceptionally strong, signaling deep conviction in sustained AI demand.
  3. Crypto AI Finds Its Niche: While broad AI models battle for supremacy, crypto AI is carving out tangible use cases in areas like decentralized data (Vanna), DeFi abstraction (Banker), prediction markets, and specialized agents (Billy Bets, OLAS), attracting significant market attention.
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April 3, 2025

Unbundling the BPO: How AI Is Disrupting Outsourced Work

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI isn't just improving BPO; it's unbundling and reinventing it, automating complex cognitive tasks and creating opportunities far beyond cost savings for incumbents.
  2. Target Measurable Wins: Focus AI disruption on BPO functions with clear, quantifiable KPIs (support tickets resolved, CSAT scores) for the most compelling enterprise value proposition.
  3. Leverage Voice AI Now, Prep for Agents: Deploy mature Voice AI for front-office gains; anticipate imminent breakthroughs in browser agents unlocking back-office automation.
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April 2, 2025

The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Architecture Beats Models (For Now): Augment hit #1 on SWE-Bench with off-the-shelf LLMs, proving intelligent agent design and context injection are paramount.
  2. Integrate, Don't Dictate: Winning developer adoption means embedding agents within existing IDEs and workflows, especially for navigating complex enterprise code.
  3. Context & Cost Shape the Future: Deep codebase understanding ("orientation," "memory") and tackling the escalating cost of agent operation are the next major frontiers in agent development.
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April 2, 2025

The #1 SWE-Bench Verified Agent

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **#1 SWE-Bench Rank:** Augment's new agent tops the SWE-Bench verified charts using off-the-shelf models plus custom codebase understanding tech.
  2. **Enterprise & IDE Focus:** Augment targets developers in large, complex codebases, integrating directly into VS Code/JetBrains workflows rather than forcing new ones.
  3. **Pragmatic Model Strategy:** Leverages off-the-shelf models for rapid deployment now, anticipating potential custom model needs as agent usage and costs inevitably explode.
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March 31, 2025

Ep 37 — How AI Agents Will Reshape DeFi & Crypto Infrastructure with Ejaaz Ahamadeen

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Agents are the Interface: Expect autonomous agents, not traditional apps, to become the dominant way users interact with both AI and crypto, abstracting away underlying complexity.
  2. Money Talks: The most successful near-term crypto AI agents will likely focus relentlessly on generating financial returns for users, tapping into crypto's core speculative drive via sophisticated, proprietary trading strategies.
  3. Build Real Products: Sustainable value comes from solving user problems with excellent UX and viable business models (potentially subscription-based initially), not just tokenomics. AI necessitates a shift from infrastructure hype to product-led growth.
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March 31, 2025

Ben Fielding: Gensyn’s Fueling an AI-Native Internet, Open vs. Closed Source AI and RL Swarm

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI scaling hits physical limits: Centralized hyperscalers face diminishing returns; the future needs horizontally scalable, decentralized compute enabled by protocols like Gensyn.
  2. The Internet gets personal (and probabilistic): Expect a shift from static databases to dynamic, parameter-based experiences, requiring ubiquitous, verified ML execution.
  3. Open beats closed (eventually): Open-source models and decentralized learning (like RL Swarm) will likely outpace closed systems by leveraging global compute and diverse data, mitigating centralized bias risks.
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March 28, 2025

The Agent Network — Dharmesh Shah, Agent.ai + CTO of HubSpot

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:


1. Agents Evolve into Teammates: Shift perspective from agents as mere tools to digital collaborators within hybrid teams, requiring platforms like Agent.ai for discovery and interaction.


2. Engineer Pragmatically, Vibe Code: Lean towards under-engineering; AI reduces refactoring costs, making it cheaper to pay down tech debt later than to over-invest in unused abstractions now.


3. Unlock Networks with Standards & Memory: Prioritize building blocks like the mCP standard and tackle the critical challenge of secure, shared, cross-agent memory to enable true agent collaboration.

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Crypto Podcasts

November 11, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 142 - Targon (Subnet 4) Update

Hash Rate pod - Bittensor $TAO & Subnets

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Proof-of-Work Is Now Verifiable. Targon’s TVM introduces a new primitive for Bittensor, making "proof of useful work" cryptographically verifiable. This technology could become the network’s standard, eliminating fraud and ensuring capital flows to genuine contributors.
  2. The Internal Economy Is the Main Event. The focus has shifted from attracting external enterprise clients to building a robust, circular economy within Bittensor. The success of one subnet directly benefits others, creating a powerful collaborative incentive structure.
  3. Bittensor Is Playing the Long Game Against Centralized AI. The strategy is clear: build a resilient, hyper-efficient decentralized alternative while centralized AI players burn through unsustainable amounts of capital. When the market turns, Bittensor aims to be the "black hole" that absorbs the distressed compute assets.
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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

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 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 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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