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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 5, 2026

Inside SharpLink's Massive Ethereum Bet With CEO Joseph Chalom

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The migration from "Crypto" to "Digital Finance" where the underlying tech becomes invisible.
  2. Audit your protocol's risk disclosures. Prioritize security and third-party code reviews to attract institutional capital.
  3. Ethereum is the leading candidate for the world's financial operating system because it has ten years of zero downtime and a massive validator base.
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January 5, 2026

How the Stablecoin Milkshake will Redollarize the World

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The US is moving from "analog" dollar dominance to a high-velocity digital network that absorbs global liquidity faster than ever.
  2. Maintain exposure to US equities and gold while keeping dollar-denominated cash in short-term bonds to capitalize on the next volatility spike.
  3. The dollar isn't dying; it is being upgraded. Expect the "Milkshake" to suck up global capital as foreign economies struggle with debt and declining growth.
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January 3, 2026

Predictions for 2026

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The movement from casino to utility means capital will flow toward protocols with high revenue quality and durability.
  2. Prioritize DeFi products that bridge institutional assets to retail front-ends.
  3. 2026 is the year crypto stops being a promise and starts being a product.
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January 2, 2026

Crypto Only Has 2 Real Business Models | Ejaaz Ahamadeen

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Value is migrating from raw infrastructure to the model layer. As compute becomes a commodity, the economic winner is the entity that owns the weights and the inference interface.
  2. Audit your portfolio for projects with Visa-style fee structures. Prioritize protocols that generate revenue from external usage rather than internal token circularity.
  3. Sustainable crypto AI requires moving past speculative emissions toward actual service fees. The next year will separate apps that use AI to solve problems from protocols that use AI to sell tokens.
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January 2, 2026

Bittensor Brief #16: Bitsec Subnet 60

Hash Rate Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Security is moving from a periodic human service to a continuous machine-verified state.
  2. Stress-test your current security stack by running it against historical exploit benchmarks.
  3. If you are not using AI to defend your code, you are already losing to the AI trying to break it.
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January 2, 2026

Silver Is Going Parabolic, Bitcoin's Quantum Threat, & ETH’s 2026 Setup

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Move: Capital is rotating from speculative "early" bets into "fundamental" infrastructure as crypto integrates with global finance.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit your portfolio for "equity-heavy" protocols and favor "unified" models like Uniswap that prioritize token-holder value.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next year belongs to the builders who can navigate the transition from "underground" experiment to "boring" global backbone.
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