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AI Podcasts

January 12, 2026

OpenAI + @Temporalio : Building Durable, Production Ready Agents - Cornelia Davis, Temporal

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from "Agent as a Script" to "Agent as a Durable Service" where state management is handled by the infrastructure.
  2. Wrap your existing API tools in the `activity_as_tool` function to gain automatic retries and execution history.
  3. Reliability is the only moat in the agentic economy. If your agent cannot survive a server restart during a three-day task, it is not ready for the enterprise.
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January 13, 2026

How Ladder Became #1 Strength Training App

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The move from fragmented content libraries to integrated health systems where AI synthesizes biomarkers and movement.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Construct internal LLM tools to categorize qualitative feedback. This turns thousands of raw reviews into a precise roadmap.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building a $100M ARR consumer app requires mastery of both growth loops and product retention. Solve for the daily habit to win the long game.
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January 13, 2026

Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose AI to specialized application layers. As foundation models commoditize, value migrates to the "fat tail" of human-centric complexity.
  2. Prioritize building or investing in "DNA of the future" companies that incumbents must eventually acquire to survive. Focus on winning the "point of attack" by staying deep in the technical details.
  3. We are in a unique market where demand growth justifies high valuations. Success over the next year depends on identifying founders who are the absolute best in the world at one specific thing.
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January 13, 2026

It's Time To Build

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Infrastructure Invisibility. As core technologies become background noise, value moves from the pipes to the unique experiences built on top of them.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Reject Mediocrity. Audit your product for average features and replace them with high-conviction improvements that competitors are too lazy to attempt.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building is the only way to ensure the future happens. If you do not create the next version of reality, you are stuck living in an outdated vision.
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January 13, 2026

Nothing’s Carl Pei on Building a $1B Smartphone Company and Why He Thinks About Death Every Week

The Generalist

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from hardware specs to emotional hardware where brand identity and OS-native AI become the primary moats.
  2. Prioritize arbitrage opportunities in marketing by finding underpriced attention on platforms like TikTok before they become crowded.
  3. Success in mature markets requires a Genghis Khan method: be a talent scout, stay open-minded to global supply chains, and use design to win the emotional battle for the consumer's pocket.
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January 12, 2026

Nvidia CES 2026

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from centralized cloud training to distributed local inference creates a massive demand for high-bandwidth storage and custom CPUs.
  2. Audit your technical roadmap to prioritize local agentic workflows that reduce latency and data privacy risks.
  3. The next 12 months will favor hardware that enables physical AI and local autonomy. Owning the compute stack is becoming a competitive necessity for builders who want to move faster than the cloud allows.
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January 9, 2026

Spec-Driven Development: Sharpening your AI toolbox - Al Harris, Amazon Kiro

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "vibe coding" to "spec-driven" engineering.
  2. Implement EARS-formatted requirements in your AI prompts.
  3. Determinism is the ultimate feature for AI-assisted development.
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January 8, 2026

Post-training best-in-class models in 2025

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Intelligence is decoupling from scale. As reasoning becomes a commodity, the value moves from the size of the model to the proprietary nature of the training data.
  2. Use TRL or Unsloth for single-GPU fine-tuning. Prioritize cleaning your instruction sets over increasing your training iterations.
  3. The future belongs to those who own their data pipelines. If you can distill elite reasoning into a 350M parameter model, you win on latency, cost, and privacy.
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January 8, 2026

Intelligent Robots in 2026: Are We There Yet? [Nikita Rudin] - 760

The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Moving from Blind Locomotion to Semantic Navigation defines the next frontier.
  2. Prioritize modular architectures that use off-the-shelf VLMs for task orchestration.
  3. Expect the first value-positive humanoid deployments in late 2026.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 7, 2026

How Maduro's Capture and a 'Pre-War World' Affects Global Markets: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. As globalism fractures, the US is building a fortress in the Western Hemisphere. This links military tactical success directly to the valuation of high-beta assets like Bitcoin.
  2. Buy companies focused on SMRs or domestic rare earth refining. These are the "must-haves" for the AI era that will receive fast-tracked deregulation.
  3. The Maduro raid proves the US can protect its interests without long wars. For the next year, expect a "ProSec" boom where security and energy independence drive every major capital allocation.
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January 7, 2026

Welcome to Rollup TV 2026: Predictions Review, Show Updates, Key Narratives Outlook

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Credit creation is the primary driver of Bitcoin and Ethereum price action. As geopolitical shifts in Venezuela and US policy signal a return to the "money printer," capital will flow to assets with fixed supplies.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Consolidate positions into category winners like Hyperliquid or Sky. Avoid the "beta" of new venture-backed copycats that lack the network effects of established incumbents.
  3. The Bottom Line: 2026 is the year infrastructure becomes invisible. The winners will be those who bridge the gap between institutional trust and decentralized execution.
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January 7, 2026

Pudgy Penguins’ Luca Netz on the Mistake Crypto Keeps Making

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: We are moving from a world where everything must be decentralized to a bifurcated model where some chains secure value and others power commerce.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Abstract the infrastructure by building applications that hide the wallet and gas fees behind a familiar Web2 login.
  3. The Bottom Line: Mass adoption requires a "centralized" user experience powered by a "decentralized" rail to survive the next 12 months.
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January 6, 2026

Where To Allocate In 2026 | Matty Taylor

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Sovereign assets are moving from tokenized versions of old equities to entirely new primitives that offer better governance and transparency.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Ditch the SAFE and Token Warrant combo for the Stamp to align early investors with long-term token health.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next year will reward founders who embrace public-market transparency and technical experiments over those chasing the current meta.
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January 6, 2026

Markets React to U.S. Capture of Maduro

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Production for Security. As globalization fractures, the US is trading ESG idealism for hard-asset reality.
  2. Buy Energy Infrastructure. Focus on SMR nuclear and solar companies that bypass traditional regulatory bottlenecks.
  3. Dollarized tech. This secures the energy needed for the AI and crypto buildout over the next decade.
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January 5, 2026

Bitcoin’s Back, Venezuela Regime Change, Memecoins, 2026 Mega Trends

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Geopolitical realignment is turning Bitcoin from a speculative asset into a tool of statecraft.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Buy Bitcoin calls dated for late January to capture the $125k target.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next six months will reward those who recognize that the "printing money" era has evolved into a "seizing assets" era.
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