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AI Podcasts

January 8, 2026

AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capital is replacing labor as the primary driver of productivity.
  2. Prioritize investments in incumbents with massive distribution or lean startups that swap payroll for compute.
  3. The US remains the primary engine of growth but the internal divide between tech hubs and the hinterland will widen as AI concentrates wealth.
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January 9, 2026

Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The decoupling of parameter count from active compute via sparsity means intelligence is becoming a software optimization problem as much as a hardware one.
  2. Audit your agentic workflows for turn efficiency rather than just cost per token.
  3. In a world of infinite tokens, the winner is the one who can verify the truth the fastest.
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January 7, 2026

Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "adding machines" to "human cognition" models is an 80-year correction finally hitting the vertical part of the S-curve.
  2. Prioritize application-specific models that backward-integrate into the stack.
  3. AI is a physical and digital build-out that will define the next decade of global power.
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January 6, 2026

Who Controls AI's Future? The Battle for GPU Access | CoreWeave SVP

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose compute to specialized AI infrastructure mirrors the rise of Snowflake in the data era.
  2. Audit your current cloud spend to identify where generalist latency is throttling your GPU goodput.
  3. Performance bars move every two years. If your infrastructure isn't purpose-built for AI today, you will be priced out of the market tomorrow.
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January 5, 2026

Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: The transition from LLMs as chat interfaces to LLMs as logic engines. As models move from text prediction to logic execution, the value moves from the model itself to the verification systems surrounding it.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit the stack. Prioritize the integration of agentic coding tools like Jules to shorten the feedback loop between ideation and deployment.
  3. The Bottom Line: Code is the only medium where AI can self-correct and scale without human intervention. The next 12 months will be defined by who can turn raw model power into reliable, self-healing code.
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January 5, 2026

Claude Agent SDK [Full Workshop] — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Moving from "Model-as-a-Service" to "Environment-as-a-Service" where the harness matters as much as the weights.
  2. Replace your bespoke API tools with a single bash tool. Use a well-structured file system.
  3. The next year belongs to builders who stop treating LLMs as chatbots. They will treat them as system administrators.
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January 6, 2026

Building durable Agents with Workflow DevKit & AI SDK - Peter Wielander, Vercel

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: We are moving from "fire-and-forget" prompts to durable execution environments where state is as important as the model itself.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Wrap your existing tool calls in the `useStep` function to gain instant retry logic and execution history.
  3. The Bottom Line: Reliability is the primary moat in the agent market. Builders who adopt durable workflows will move to production while others are still debugging local scripts.
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January 6, 2026

Build a Prompt Learning Loop - SallyAnn DeLucia & Fuad Ali, Arize

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The move from manual prompt engineering to automated prompt learning. As models become commodities, the proprietary loop that refines them becomes the moat.
  2. Implement a Train-Test Split for your prompts. Use a subset of failure data to generate new rules and validate them against a separate holdout set to ensure the logic holds.
  3. Reliability is the only metric that matters for agent adoption. If you are not using a feedback loop to update your system instructions, you are building on sand.
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January 6, 2026

The Netflix Culture Code That Changed Entertainment Forever | Reed Hastings Interview

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The move from industrial management to creative inspiration. As AI automates routine tasks, the only remaining value is high-variance human creativity.
  2. Apply the Keeper Test today. Ask your leads which team members they would fight for and provide generous exits for the rest to reset your talent bar.
  3. Scaling doesn't require more rules. It requires better people. If you can maintain talent density, you can run fast while your competitors choke on their own handbooks.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 23, 2026

The “Quantum Threat” Behind Bitcoin’s Sudden Sell-Off

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from global cooperation to regional protectionism is driving a capital outflow loop that favors hard assets over sovereign debt.
  2. Monitor the development of quantum-resistant signatures on alternative L1s to hedge against Bitcoin’s potential cryptographic obsolescence.
  3. The next year will be defined by the race to tokenize real-world assets and the struggle to maintain protocol relevance as TradFi giants enter the arena.
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January 22, 2026

DePIN’s Biggest New Deal: Valeo x NATIX | Alireza Ghods

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from digital-only AI to Physical AI requires a massive bridge of high-fidelity video data.
  2. Monitor DePIN projects that move from "map-to-earn" to "train-to-earn" for foundational models.
  3. NATIX is no longer just a mapping company; it is the data refinery for the next generation of autonomous machines.
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January 21, 2026

Markets Are Entering A Wartime Economy | Cem Karsan

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from a supply-side model to a populist-driven wartime economy makes inflation a permanent feature rather than a bug.
  2. Rotate out of traditional portfolios into non-correlated volatility strategies and hard assets.
  3. The next decade belongs to those who recognize that the rules-based order has been replaced by a raw competition for strategic resources.
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January 21, 2026

How Nansen’s New Trading Agent Makes It Easier to Follow the Smart Money Onchain

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The commoditization of technical infrastructure means alpha moves from who has the data to who has the best prompts.
  2. Test agentic workflows with small capital amounts to identify where natural language outperforms manual execution.
  3. The next 12 months will see a transition from manual click-and-sign trading to intent-based portfolio management.
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January 21, 2026

Quadrillions: How to Win the World | Chris Maurice

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from public peer-to-peer narratives to private B2B infrastructure that connects local bonds to global stablecoins.
  2. Build for the back end of the product by integrating with local financial institutions that already own the user relationship.
  3. The next year will see the rise of global dollar-denominated accounts, making the US dollar a truly borderless commodity.
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January 21, 2026

Market Structure, Macro Volatility, and the Next Phase of Crypto | Michael Anderson & Vance Spencer

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from L1 wars to on-chain businesses means capital is moving toward protocols with clear revenue-sharing models.
  2. Monitor Bitmine’s ETH accumulation and the launch of Blackwell GPU clusters. Position in protocols that bridge the gap between AI infrastructure financing and stablecoin liquidity.
  3. The next year belongs to the capital assassins who can blend meme-driven distribution with hard-nosed corporate finance.
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