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AI Podcasts

January 18, 2026

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Strategic Pivot: The transition from "Understanding-First" science to "Prediction-First" engineering. We are building artifacts that work perfectly but remain theoretically opaque.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit your AI stack for "Leaky Abstractions." Don't assume a model's reasoning capabilities in one domain will hold when the underlying causal structure changes.
  3. AGI isn't just an engineering milestone; it's a philosophical wager. If the brain isn't a computer, we are building a very powerful helicopter, not a synthetic human.
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January 18, 2026

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The pivot from "Understanding-First" science to "Prediction-First" engineering creates massive technical liability in our models.
  2. Audit your AI implementations for "Leaky Abstractions" where the model fails to account for physical edge cases.
  3. High-performance automation is not the same as sentient reasoning. Builders who recognize this distinction will avoid the cultural illusion of inevitable AGI.
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January 17, 2026

Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from deterministic software to agentic networks. Companies are moving from rigid workflows to fluid systems that plan and execute autonomously.
  2. Build an internal LLM gateway early. Centralizing model routing and cost monitoring allows you to swap providers as the model horse race changes without refactoring your product.
  3. AI is not just a feature but a fundamental restructuring of the corporate cost center. Efficiency gains allow a static headcount of 300 engineers to support a business growing 5x.
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January 14, 2026

Identity for AI Agents - Patrick Riley & Carlos Galan, Auth0

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from interactive chat to autonomous "task runners" requires a shift from session-based identity to delegated, long-term authorization.
  2. Implement the Token Vault pattern to decouple your agent logic from the mess of OAuth token refreshing.
  3. In the next year, the "Agentic Web" will live or die by trust. If you cannot prove an agent is authorized to act, it is just a fancy toy.
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January 15, 2026

AI and the Future of Warfare with US Under Secretary of War Emil Michael

No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: The Great Re-Shoring. National security now depends on domestic production of critical minerals and semiconductors.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Build for Scale. Prioritize manufacturing competence over pure software features to win government contracts.
  3. The Bottom Line: The defense industrial base is being rebuilt from the ground up. The next decade belongs to the builders who can merge Silicon Valley speed with the Pentagon's scale.
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January 15, 2026

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from software eating the world to AI reinventing the computer means every existing market cap is a floor.
  2. Prioritize the non-fungible creator by providing monetization tools that bypass legacy gatekeepers.
  3. We are entering a period of asymmetric payoffs where the art of picking original thinkers matters more than historical data.
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January 13, 2026

Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle | Lex Fridman Podcast #489

Lex Fridman

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: Biological Sovereignty. As global systems destabilize, the Amazon remains the most critical piece of biological infrastructure on the planet.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Support Jungle Keepers. Direct capital to organizations that convert loggers into rangers to secure land concessions.
  3. The Amazon is a finite asset under active siege. Protecting it requires a blend of primitive survival skills and high-tech surveillance over the next 18 months.
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January 12, 2026

Jensen Huang says robots will have human capabilities this year! The Robots at CES Had.. Other Plans

Turing Post

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: As generative AI masters simulation, the physical world becomes a high-fidelity playground for software.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Invest in the "brain" layer rather than the "limb" layer. Software that can generalize across different hardware forms will capture the most value.
  3. The next decade belongs to embodied AI that reasons in real time. If you are waiting for the hardware to look perfect before paying attention, you will miss the moment the software takes over the physical world.
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January 12, 2026

Your MCP Server is Bad (and you should feel bad) - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: Context as Product. We are moving from raw data transport to opinionated context delivery.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prune your endpoints. Remove any tool that requires more than one step to achieve a business result.
  3. The Bottom Line: The winners of the agentic era will be those who build the best Agentic Interface Guidelines.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 26, 2025

2025 Year in Review

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Infra-as-an-Asset" to "Infra-as-a-Service" means valuations will now track real cash flows rather than speculative multiples.
  2. Prioritize protocols that pivot to B2B strategies or vertical integration.
  3. The next 12 months will reward those who build for users rather than for the "crypto-native" echo chamber.
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December 26, 2025

Keith Singery & Garrett Oetken: TAO.com Wallet, Bittensor, TAO Flow, Governance, Subnets | Ep. 77

Ventura Labs

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Capital is migrating from passive staking to active participation in specific intelligence commodities.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit the founders behind subnets before swapping tokens.
  3. The Bottom Line: Bittensor is becoming a modular AI stack where the value lies in the integration of specialized subnets rather than isolated performance.
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December 26, 2025

2025 Crypto Year in Review, Part 1: Shit Talking Edition

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from speculative points to protocol revenue.
  2. Monitor L2 sequencer revenue models.
  3. 2025 is the year crypto stopped pretending and started building businesses.
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December 26, 2025

Our 2026 Crypto Predictions

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI capex cycle is the new North Star for crypto liquidity. If next-gen chips underdeliver, the risk-off contagion will hit crypto first.
  2. Accumulate blue-chip DeFi protocols like Aave or Morpho. These middlemen are better positioned to capture fintech integration than speculative L1s.
  3. 2026 is the year crypto stops selling potential and starts selling efficiency. Survival depends on being close to the customer.
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December 26, 2025

How To Fix Crypto's Token Dilemma

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The transition from passive liquidity to proactive, infrastructure-integrated market making.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize protocols that control the issuance layer rather than those just providing a venue for existing assets.
  3. The Bottom Line: Liquidity is a commodity, but distribution and issuance are the only durable moats in a high-speed SVM environment.
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December 26, 2025

Where Solana is Better Than Bitcoin & Ethereum

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Store of Value" to "Medium of Utility." As networks mature, the market will value throughput and censorship resistance over simple supply caps.
  2. Allocate capital toward ecosystems with the highest developer activity and transaction density. Focus on chains building hardware-level censorship resistance rather than those just tweaking economic parameters.
  3. The next three years will prove that the most useful tool wins the money war. If Solana achieves its roadmap, its asset becomes the default unit of account for the digital economy.
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