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AI Podcasts

March 20, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 101 - Bittensor Fund I: Investing in Subnets

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. The Bittensor subnet ecosystem offers potentially asymmetric investment opportunities, similar to early Ethereum or DeFi Summer.
  • 2. Simplified user interfaces and cross-chain bridges are crucial for attracting mainstream capital.
  • 3. The convergence of new capital, increasing subnet adoption, and the rise of decentralized AI position Bittensor for potentially explosive growth.
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March 19, 2025

Illia Polosukhin on The Upcoming Explosion of User-Owned AI

The Rollup

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. User-owned AI offers a powerful alternative to centralized models, prioritizing user control, data privacy, and personalized experiences.
  • 2. Near Protocol is building the necessary infrastructure and protocols to support the development, deployment, and monetization of user-owned AI agents.
  • 3. The future of AI and crypto will see the rise of useful agents that can perform real-world tasks, creating new opportunities for developers and users alike.
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March 19, 2025

npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Cloudflare is leveraging its existing Durable Objects technology to create a compelling platform for developing and deploying AI agents.
  • 2. The future of AI agents hinges on solving challenges related to trust, practical applications, and accessibility for non-technical users.
  • 3. Cloudflare Agents is poised to address these challenges by offering a robust, scalable platform with features like human-in-the-loop, scheduling, and future support for multi-agent communication and enhanced workflows.
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March 18, 2025

The Gap Between Humans and Machines Is ___

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Robustness, not just accuracy, is crucial for LLMs to gain trust and widespread adoption.
  • 2. Human feedback should be used strategically and granularly to mitigate biases and optimize model behavior effectively.
  • 3. Dynamic, evolving benchmarks tailored to specific tasks are necessary to truly evaluate the evolving capabilities of increasingly sophisticated AI systems.
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March 15, 2025

Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI

a16z

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. AI development requires balancing technical rigor with qualitative user feedback to create truly engaging experiences.
  • 2. The future of conversational AI lies in eliminating transcription, allowing direct audio processing for faster, more natural interactions.
  • 3. AI companions are poised to become a new computing interface, emphasizing natural, human-like interactions over traditional utility.
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March 14, 2025

Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Snipd is transforming podcast consumption by focusing on knowledge retention and learning through AI-enhanced features.
  • 2. The app's evolution reflects a shift from social sharing to a more personalized, learning-centric experience.
  • 3. Future developments include voice interfaces and AI-driven discovery, promising a more interactive and tailored user experience.
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March 13, 2025

[Lightning Pod] Evals: How to Improve AI Consistently — with Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Evals are essential for moving AI applications from demo to production, requiring systematic measurement and data literacy.
  • 2. Teaching evals involves hands-on, practical approaches to ensure understanding and application of stable, evergreen techniques.
  • 3. Custom data annotation tools and careful validation of LLMs as judges are crucial for effective evals.
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March 13, 2025

Vibecoding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online

a16z

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Vibecoding democratizes software development, enabling a broader range of users to create applications without traditional coding skills.
  • 2. The rapid growth of AI-powered tools highlights a significant demand for accessible software development solutions.
  • 3. Despite challenges, the potential for Vibecoding to transform how we build software is immense, with ongoing improvements expected to address current limitations.
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March 12, 2025

Maya Kannan: Geoeconomics, Economic Systems, AI Blockchain Governance, Innovation, Politics | Ep. 31

Ventura Labs

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Geoeconomics is reshaping global politics, requiring nations to align industries with strategic priorities.
  • 2. AI systems should be designed to learn from diverse environments, avoiding ideological biases.
  • 3. Consortium blockchains offer a path to decentralized governance, balancing private and public interests.
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Crypto Podcasts

February 13, 2026

Aave Governance, Polymarket, and LayerZero’s Zero Chain | Livestream

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. DeFi protocols are confronting the trade-off between pure decentralization and operational efficiency.
  2. Identify protocols that effectively bridge crypto's core strengths with traditional finance's distribution and user experience.
  3. The next 6-12 months will see a clearer divergence between protocols that successfully adapt their governance and business models for growth.
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February 13, 2026

Bittensor Novelty Search :: Network Governance

The Opentensor Foundation | Bittensor TAO

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bittensor is shifting from a founder-led project to a fully decentralized, community-governed AI network.
  2. Participate in upcoming governance votes and discussions, especially regarding emission control and subnet performance.
  3. Bittensor is transitioning from a founder-led project to a community-owned, self-defending AI utility.
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February 13, 2026

Stepping Down as CEO to Subnet Owner — Bittensor Is Going Fully Decentralized

The Opentensor Foundation | Bittensor TAO

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The future of AI ownership is shifting from corporate silos to decentralized, community-governed networks.
  2. Engage with Bittensor's governance.
  3. Bittensor is transitioning from a founder-led project to a truly self-sovereign AI network.
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February 13, 2026

Bittensor Cofounder Explains What Makes a Great Subnet

The Opentensor Foundation | Bittensor TAO

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The shift from centralized AI development to decentralized, incentive-driven networks like Bittensor demands a rigorous focus on economic mechanism design. The core challenge is translating a desired AI capability into a quantifiable, ungameable benchmark that ensures genuine progress, not just benchmark-specific optimization.
  2. Prioritize benchmark design and transparency. Builders should immediately define a precise, copy-resistant, and low-variance benchmark, then launch on mainnet quickly with open-source validator code.
  3. Over the next 6-12 months, the subnets that win will be those that master incentive alignment through robust, transparent benchmarking and rapid, mainnet-first iteration. Investors should look for subnets demonstrating clear auditability and a willingness to confront and fix miner exploits openly, as these indicate long-term viability and genuine progress towards their stated AI goals.
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February 13, 2026

Has Crypto Lost the Plot? Bear Market Reality & What Happens Next

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is undergoing a forced re-alignment, moving from a broad "world computer" vision to a focused "financial utility machine" reality. This means capital and talent are increasingly flowing to projects that deliver tangible financial value and robust infrastructure.
  2. Prioritize projects building core financial primitives, robust L1/L2 infrastructure, or those leveraging AI for financial automation. Investigate prediction market platforms and their regulatory positioning, as they represent a proven, high-growth revenue stream.
  3. The current market downturn is a cleansing fire, forcing crypto to shed non-viable narratives and double down on its core strength: programmable finance. Success will accrue to those who build for financial utility and AI-driven users, not just human consumers.
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February 13, 2026

Solana’s Changing Market Microstructure

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The pursuit of optimal market microstructure is driving a wedge between L1s and specialized execution environments, forcing L1s like Solana to either adapt their core protocol or risk losing high-value DeFi activity to custom solutions.
  2. Monitor Solana's validator stake distribution for Jito's BAM and Harmonic, as increasing adoption of MEV-mitigating clients will directly impact onchain trading profitability and the viability of sophisticated DeFi applications.
  3. Solana's ability to scale throughput and implement protocol-enforced MEV solutions will determine if it can reclaim its position as the preferred L1 for high-frequency DeFi, or if specialized applications will continue to build off-chain, fragmenting the ecosystem.
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