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AI Podcasts

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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 30, 2025

What's Next For Crypto In 2026 | Kairos Research

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The migration from subsidized security to fee-based sustainability. Capital is fleeing "fake money" inflation for real yield.
  2. Monitor Solana's BAM plugins for maker prioritization. This allows perps to offer tighter spreads than centralized exchanges.
  3. 2026 is the year of the "Real" app. The winners will be those who stop hoarding interest and start sharing it with their users.
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December 30, 2025

Landmark Regulation, ICOs, Downtober & Privacy: 2025 Crypto Year in Review (Part 2)

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Regulatory moats are being built around stablecoins to protect bank deposits. This forces a migration toward "consortium" models like Stripe’s Tempo.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit market maker agreements to ensure protection against exchange API failures. Reliability is now a competitive advantage.
  3. 2026 looks like a liquidity-driven recovery. The "easy road" is over, but the infrastructure for the next cycle is finally being built by adults.
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December 29, 2025

HIP-3 and Markets by Kinetiq with Omnia | Livestream

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: Vertical Integration. Protocols are moving from single-utility tools to full-stack financial ecosystems that own both the liquidity and the application layer.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor HIP-3 auctions. Watch how new exchanges utilize Kinetic's infrastructure to bootstrap liquidity without issuing predatory new tokens.
  3. The Bottom Line: Kinetic is building the infrastructure for a post-Binance world where users own the venues they trade on. This matters for your roadmap because user-owned liquidity is the next major phase of DeFi growth.
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December 29, 2025

Investing Trends for 2026: DeFi, Tokenization, Capital Formation, Speculation & AI

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The move from human-centric trading to an agent-led economy where programmable money is the native substrate.
  2. Prioritize startups building verticalized tokenization for high-yield exogenous assets rather than generalized service providers.
  3. Crypto is becoming the invisible backend for global finance. Over the next year, the winners will be those who hide the blockchain while using its efficiency to crush traditional margins.
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December 28, 2025

Getting To The Bottom Of Quantum w/ Rearden

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Cryptographic security is moving from static models to active systems that must anticipate both classical and quantum breakthroughs.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit your UTXOs to ensure no address reuse and keep your Xpubs strictly offline.
  3. The Bottom Line: Quantum risk is a long tail event that serves as a catalyst for necessary Bitcoin upgrades like OP_CAT and BIP 360.
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December 28, 2025

Getting To The Bottom Of Quantum w/ Rearden

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Technical reality is decoupled from venture capital hype.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Use hashed addresses and run a node.
  3. The Bottom Line: Quantum is an engineering hurdle rather than an existential crisis for the next decade.
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