10 Hours of Listening.
5 Minutes of Reading.

Deep dives into the conversations shaping the future of AI, Robotics & Crypto.

Save hours of your time each week with our key takeaways from the most interesting podcasts

🔍 Search & Filter
Thank you! Your submission has been received!
Oops! Something went wrong while submitting the form.

AI Podcasts

November 3, 2025

Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Unleash Innovation to Win. America's path to AI supremacy is through deregulation, abundant energy, and aggressive global exports. Over-regulating our own companies simply hands markets and momentum to China.
  2. Fight for an Open AI Ecosystem. The most pressing AI threat is not existential risk but the creation of a centralized, Orwellian control system. This is enabled by regulatory capture and "woke AI" mandates disguised as safety.
  3. Crypto Needs Clarity, Not Chaos. While AI requires a light touch, the crypto industry needs the opposite: clear, stable, and legislated rules. Ending the "regulation by enforcement" era is critical to bringing innovation back onshore and establishing the U.S. as the world's crypto capital.
See full notes
November 3, 2025

When AI Agents Start Building the Protocol | Recall Labs

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Skill Markets are the New Talent Pools: Protocols can now create bespoke competitions to source top-tier AI agents for specialized tasks, bypassing traditional R&D cycles and finding the best "minds" for the job.
  2. The Protocol Will Build Itself: Recall's endgame is a self-improving system where AI agents compete to write and enhance the code of the very protocol they operate on, blurring the line between user and creator.
  3. Performance Becomes the Contract: The future of AI work is a meritocracy where competitive arenas are directly tied to real capital and business lines, automatically allocating work to the most capable agents.
See full notes
November 3, 2025

Why Humans Are Still Powering AI [Sponsored]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Human data is the critical asset. The most valuable—and least glamorous—layer of the AI stack is human intelligence. Its scale, importance, and economic value will only grow.
  2. The future is human-in-the-loop. The next phase of AI development will be defined by agent-human interaction, where automated systems can call upon verified human experts on demand for review and guidance.
  3. Expertise will be licensed. The economic model is shifting toward a future where human expertise can be licensed, allowing individuals to earn passive income for contributing their knowledge to improve AI, much like Spotify pays artists for their music.
See full notes
October 31, 2025

All things AI w @altcap @sama & @satyanadella. A Halloween Special. 🎃🔥BG2 w/ Brad Gerstner

Bg2 Pod

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Power is the New Bottleneck: The critical constraint in the AI race is no longer chips, but energy and the physical infrastructure to deploy them at scale.
  2. Microsoft's Multi-Layered Bet: Microsoft's value from the OpenAI partnership extends far beyond its equity, encompassing exclusive Azure services, massive IP advantages, and a halo effect that pulls enterprise workloads from competitors.
  3. The Golden Age of Margin Expansion: AI will enable a new productivity curve where companies grow revenue far faster than headcount, fundamentally reshaping workflows and corporate economics.
See full notes
October 31, 2025

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz on the State of AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's creative power is judged against an impossible standard. Focus on its ability to remix and generate at a scale that surpasses 99.9% of human output, which is where the true value lies.
  2. The future of AI is not just software but hardware. The next battleground is robotics, where China's industrial ecosystem provides a massive advantage that could eclipse the US software lead.
  3. The ultimate AI products haven't been invented yet. The biggest opportunities lie not in perfecting today's chatbots but in creating the entirely new user experiences that will define the next decade.
See full notes
October 31, 2025

The Fed's Hawkish Cut & The Financial Hunger Games | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Fed Is Trapped:** Powell is trying to project strength, but the underlying trend is toward more liquidity. The pivot to buying T-bills is a form of stealth QE designed to keep the system functioning.
  2. **Markets Are A Rigged Game:** Forget fundamentals. Public markets are now a positioning game defined by extreme concentration in Big Tech and speculative retail frenzies, widening the gap between Wall Street and Main Street.
  3. **The AI Boom Is A Double-Edged Sword:** While driving incredible earnings, the AI buildout is transforming Big Tech into a riskier, debt-fueled, capex-heavy industry, making the entire economy dangerously dependent on a handful of stocks.
See full notes
October 30, 2025

"Is there an AI bubble?” Gavin Baker and David George

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **It's Not a Bubble, It's a Race.** The AI buildout is a rational, ROI-positive arms race funded by cash-rich giants. Unlike the dot-com era’s "dark fiber," today’s GPUs are fully utilized, generating immediate returns.
  2. **Sacrifice Margins or Die.** SaaS companies must abandon their obsession with 90% gross margins. In the AI era, lower margins signal that customers are actually using your product. Embrace them or become irrelevant.
  3. **The New Outcome Economy is Coming.** Business models will pivot from subscriptions to outcomes. AI will enable services to be priced on measurable results, from resolving a customer support ticket to booking the perfect vacation, squeezing inefficiency out of the market.
See full notes
October 30, 2025

What Is Recall Network? The CEO Explains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Verification Is the New Moat.** In a world flooded with AI agents, the ability to prove performance is the most critical bottleneck. Recall’s protocol creates a "proof-of-skill" standard.
  2. **From Hype to Hire.** The platform shifts the paradigm from speculative AI hype to a functional marketplace where businesses can effectively "hire" agents with a proven track record for specific, economically valuable tasks.
  3. **Performance Is the Asset.** By scoring agents based on consistent, real-world results, Recall provides a clear signal for organizations looking to deploy AI and for investors seeking to back top performers.
See full notes
October 29, 2025

(Real World) Data is the New Oil with 375ai | Harry Dewhirst

Proof of Coverage Media

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Surgical Precision Over Brute Force: 375ai’s model proves that DePIN isn’t just about network size. Strategic placement of high-power hardware can deliver more valuable data with a fraction of the infrastructure.
  2. Go Where the Money Is: Instead of building a demand side from scratch, 375ai is plugging directly into existing data marketplaces, giving them instant access to enterprise giants and a clear path to revenue.
  3. Revenue Directly Fuels the Token: The 80% buy-and-burn mechanism is a powerful flywheel. As data sales grow, so does the direct value accrual to EAT token holders, creating one of the most direct links between utility and tokenomics in the space.
See full notes

Crypto Podcasts

October 31, 2025

Crypto’s in a 20-Year Secular Bull Market | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The "Bloomberg for Crypto" is the Endgame.** The most valuable companies will provide institutional-grade data and software. Blockworks' pivot is a bet on this future, moving from a crowded news business to a high-growth data platform with clear product-market fit.
  2. **Tokenization is Now a Publicly Traded Thesis.** With Securitize’s IPO, investors can make a direct, public-market bet on the tokenization of real-world assets. It will likely be valued as a high-growth proxy for the entire sector.
  3. **Adoption is Bought, Not Begged.** Layer 1s are aggressively paying for partnerships with brands like Western Union. For investors, the question is whether these deals create a sustainable flywheel or just a temporary boost.
See full notes
October 30, 2025

Why I’m Short $1M of ETH.

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Q4 Pump is a Trap. The widespread belief in a year-end alt season has become a crowded exit strategy. When everyone plans to sell into the same pump, there’s no one left to buy.
  2. ETH's Fundamentals are Hollow. Ethereum's valuation is propped up by narratives, not reality. Weak on-chain activity and a value-accrual model that benefits apps over the base layer make its current price unsustainable.
  3. The Sellers Are Here. From VCs with token unlocks to treasury companies turning into paper hands, identifiable sellers now outweigh the speculative buyers, signaling the cycle has turned.
See full notes
October 30, 2025

Hivemind: Crypto's Leverage Hangover, Hyperliquid's Resurgance & What's Next for Markets?

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Survive, Then Thrive. After massive liquidations, the strongest assets and narratives (e.g., privacy plays like Zcash) recover first. Focus capital on names showing relative strength post-wipeout, as they are the first to capture returning liquidity.
  2. Revenue is the New Narrative. The game has changed. The market now demands clear revenue streams and legal structures that align token holders with protocol success. Valueless governance tokens are out; tokens tied to real business operations are in.
  3. On-Chain TradFi is Here. Platforms like Hyperliquid are successfully bringing assets like the NASDAQ on-chain, proving crypto-native demand for traditional markets. This represents a major new frontier for DeFi protocols looking to capture volume.
See full notes
October 29, 2025

Deficits Are Forcing the Fed Back Into Expansion | Lyn Alden

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Fiscal is the new Fed.** Government spending, not central bank policy, is the dominant force in the economy. Stop looking for a traditional recession; the deficit is the stimulus that won’t quit.
  2. **The Fed is re-opening the liquidity spigot.** The era of Quantitative Tightening is over. A gradual but persistent expansion of the Fed's balance sheet is coming, which will provide a tailwind for assets.
  3. **Own scarce assets.** The long-term debasement of fiat currency is the default path. Alden remains constructive on Bitcoin, viewing its current phase as a prelude to a significant move higher in the coming years.
See full notes
October 28, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 140 - The New Crucible Bittensor Wallet

Hash Rate pod - Bittensor $TAO & Subnets

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Security Is No Longer an Afterthought: The Crucible Wallet’s native Ledger integration provides the first hardware-secured, consumer-friendly way to manage TAO and subnet tokens, addressing a major security gap in the ecosystem.
  2. Automated Strategy Beats Day Trading: The "Staking to Core Alpha" feature offers a powerful tool that automatically reinvests yield into a customizable portfolio of subnets, saving users from the overwhelming task of constantly researching and reallocating assets.
  3. Capital Flow is King: The wallet's primary mission is to redirect staked TAO from the root network into deserving subnets, providing them with the capital needed to grow and achieve commercial success, which in turn strengthens the entire Bittensor network.
See full notes
October 28, 2025

How Crypto Neobanks Work: Frax, Cards, and Visa’s Role

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Real Metric Is GDP, Not Volume. A million dollars in daily card spending on real-world goods is a far more powerful signal of adoption than hundreds of millions in AMM swap volume. Watch the growth in real economic activity, not just on-chain shuffling.
  2. Infrastructure Is the Bottleneck. The race isn't just to launch another neobank; it's to build the underlying pipes. Protocols like Frax that power multiple stablecoins and neobanks are positioned to capture value from the entire ecosystem's growth.
  3. The End Game Is a Parallel Financial System. Crypto neobanks are the final link needed to close the economic loop. They enable a world where a user can save, earn yield, and spend entirely on-chain, making the concept of a bank account obsolete.
See full notes