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AI Podcasts

May 25, 2025

How Endless Debt Became America's Culture

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Debt is Destiny:** America's fiscal irresponsibility and cultural embrace of debt ensure ongoing money printing and inflation, making currency debasement a near certainty.
  2. **The One True Trade:** Forget complex analytics; the primary goal is preserving purchasing power. This means owning store-of-value assets like Bitcoin and gold, which are positioned to thrive.
  3. **AI Accelerates the Crisis:** Artificial intelligence will not only disrupt labor markets but also intensify the debt crisis by devaluing traditional education and fueling calls for more government relief.
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May 24, 2025

SN85 :: VIDAIO :: Decentralized AI Video Upscaling & Compression ++ Roadmap & Enterprise Utility

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Decentralized AI is Production-Ready: VIDAIO demonstrates that complex AI tasks like video processing can be effectively decentralized and optimized through BitTensor's subnet model, with miners already outperforming base models.
  2. Perceptual Quality Wins: Focusing on human-perceived video quality, rather than just raw specs, is key for AI video tools, leading to more efficient and visually appealing results.
  3. Subnets Must Aim for Self-Sufficiency: The long-term viability of BitTensor subnets hinges on generating real-world revenue and solving actual customer problems, moving beyond reliance on token emissions.
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May 24, 2025

Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. National AI is Non-Negotiable: Countries are investing heavily in "AI factories" to control their digital destiny and cultural narratives.
  2. Models are Culture: AI outputs reflect embedded values, making local control over AI development and deployment a geopolitical imperative.
  3. Lead by Building Better: The US can maintain AI leadership by out-innovating competitors and enabling allies, pursuing "foundation model diplomacy" to ensure its technology underpins global progress.
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May 23, 2025

How Decentralized Data Marketplaces Could Reshape AI Forever

The People's AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Data is the New Asset Class: Vana is pioneering frameworks (like VRC20) to treat data as an ownable, tradable asset, potentially revolutionizing finance as much as property ownership once did.
  2. Market Makers Will Ignite Liquidity: The emergence of "data market makers" is projected to significantly enhance capital flow and price discovery in decentralized data marketplaces.
  3. From UBI to UDI: Instead of a Universal Basic Income, imagine a Universal Data Income where you’re paid for your unique data contributions that make AI more human and effective.
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May 23, 2025

Building AI Systems You Can Trust

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trust Trumps Tweaks: Stop chasing marginal performance gains if you haven't nailed reliability; the biggest barrier to AI value is a lack of confidence, not capability.
  2. Embrace Behavioral Intelligence: Shift from only evaluating final outputs to continuously testing the how and why of AI behavior across the entire system, especially for non-deterministic and non-stationary models.
  3. Platformize for Prudence: Enterprises must build or adopt centralized GenAI platforms with robust logging and testing to manage risk, ensure consistency, and provide developers with the tools to build trustworthy AI.
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May 22, 2025

AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Bg2 Pod

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Diplomacy is a Two-Way Street: The US pivot to an open, partnership-based AI strategy, particularly in the Middle East, is attracting massive reciprocal investment and securing American tech leadership.
  2. Calculated Tariffs, Critical Tech Race: A more pragmatic China tariff policy ($300B projected) offers market stability, but ongoing AI chip export bans may inadvertently fuel China's independent tech advancement.
  3. Foundational Economic & Legal Shifts Brewing: "Invest America" within the Recon Bill signifies a novel approach to wealth distribution, while challenges to Delaware's corporate law dominance and new crypto regulations like the "Genius Act" signal major structural reforms in legal and financial landscapes.
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May 21, 2025

David Choi & Conor Moore: USD.AI - Financing the Future of AI Infra

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. USDAI is pioneering a new model for real-world asset (RWA) financing, focusing on the booming AI and DePIN hardware sector. It combines robust legal frameworks with DeFi mechanisms to offer compelling yield opportunities and solve critical growth bottlenecks.
  2. Real Yield, Real Assets: USDAI offers a sustainable yield (targeting mid-teens to 20% APY for stakers at maturity) backed by productive, cash-flowing hardware, not just crypto-speculation.
  3. DePIN Scalability Unlocked: Provides a crucial debt financing layer for capital-intensive DePIN operators, enabling faster growth and reduced reliance on inflationary token incentives.
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May 17, 2025

The Time To Invest Is Now

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Invest in Robotics Now: The sector presents a rare chance to buy into a long-term secular growth story at cyclically depressed prices, just as the related automotive downturn shows signs of bottoming.
  2. Humanoids are Affordable & Approaching: With models priced competitively and key costs in mechanics, not chips, the widespread adoption of humanoid robots is increasingly practical.
  3. Teleoperation is the Bridge: Expect an interim period where humans remotely pilot robots, creating "Robotics as a Service" and smoothly transitioning labor before full AI autonomy dominates.
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May 16, 2025

ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. ChatGPT Codex isn't just another coding assistant; it's a leap towards autonomous software engineering agents. Success hinges on a new collaborative mindset and preparing codebases for AI interaction.
  2. Delegate, Don't Micromanage: Leverage ChatGPT Codex's ability to run multiple (even 60/hour) long-running tasks in parallel. Think abundance, not scarcity of compute.
  3. Structure for Success: Implement agents.md, linters, and modular architecture. This isn't just good practice; it’s crucial for AI agent performance.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 12, 2026

Claude Opus 4.5’s Breakout Moment & Investing in 2026 with Qiao Wang

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: Proprietary data and enterprise switching costs are the only walls left standing as AI commoditizes the act of writing code.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Build internal tools using natural language agents to automate specific, low-volume workflows that third-party vendors ignore.
  3. The Bottom Line: The billion-dollar company with a single employee is no longer a fantasy; it is a mathematical certainty for those who master the prompt over the next twelve months.
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January 13, 2026

How Claude Code is Changing the World with Nick Emmons

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The migration from human-centric interfaces to agent-first protocols where software is a temporary utility rather than a permanent product.
  2. Use Git and MCP servers to give your agents a persistent memory and toolset, allowing them to work autonomously through complex loops.
  3. Software is no longer the prize; it is the commodity. Your value in the next year depends on how well you direct the agents that build it.
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January 12, 2026

HIP-3 Market Design and Felix’s Role | Charlie, Felix Protocol

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Strategic Pivot: Vertical Consolidation. Protocols are moving away from modularity toward integrated stacks to capture maximum fee revenue.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor BLP Rates. Watch the spread between Felix and Hyperliquid’s native lending rates. Capital will migrate to the platform offering the lowest borrow cost for margin trading.
  3. The Bottom Line: Hyperliquid is winning by becoming a DeFi Super App rather than just a perp engine. Its success over the next year depends on its ability to manage UI fragmentation while keeping all revenue inside the Hype ecosystem.
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January 12, 2026

Is Canton a Real Blockchain? | Canton Founder Yuval Rooz

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: We are seeing a split between "Pure Crypto" for sovereignty and "Institutional Rails" for global capital markets.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor Broadridge volume to gauge the actual velocity of institutional on-chain adoption.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next decade is not about crypto replacing banks. It is about banks adopting crypto's efficiency while keeping their legal moats.
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January 12, 2026

Who Actually Owns the Aave Brand -- the DAO or Labs? Uneasy Money

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The "Fat App" thesis is evolving into the "Sovereign Brand" thesis where the front-end is the ultimate moat.
  2. Audit your protocol's meatspace dependencies—domains, trademarks, and front-ends—before they become points of failure.
  3. Decentralization isn't just about smart contracts; it is about ensuring the front door to your protocol cannot be locked by a single executive.
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January 10, 2026

Why Crypto Still Struggles to Capture the Value It Creates | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Software as a Service" to "Software as a Network" where value flows to the protocol layer.
  2. Prioritize infrastructure that owns the end-user relationship or provides essential stability for open stacks.
  3. AI models will migrate to crypto rails to solve the monetization gap that has hindered open-source development for forty years.
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