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AI Podcasts

December 6, 2025

Crypto’s Agentic Future: AI, ZK & Money Networks at Bankless Summit

Bankless

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace X42 for Mass Adoption: Leverage the X42 standard to facilitate stablecoin adoption by integrating it into AI agent workflows, making crypto payments seamless and incentivizing business adoption.
  2. Design Bot-Friendly Markets with Auctions: Implement orderflow auctions and programmable privacy to create efficient and equitable markets, preventing front-running and spam while promoting transparency.
  3. Build with ZK for Scalable Computation: Utilize zero-knowledge technology to offload complex computations and enhance application privacy, unlocking new possibilities in DeFi and beyond.
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December 4, 2025

Akshat Jagga: Dippy AI Companions, Image/Video/Voice Inference, Embedded Ads, World Models | Ep. 73

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Media Inference: Dippy's strategic shift to media inference underscores the rising demand for multimodal AI experiences, presenting significant opportunities for innovation and monetization beyond text-based interactions.
  2. Prioritize Specialized Models: Focus on developing specialized AI models tailored to specific use cases, leveraging proprietary data to create unique value propositions that outperform generic, multimodal solutions.
  3. Monetize with Embedded Ads: Explore embedding personalized, context-aware advertisements within AI interactions as a viable and scalable monetization strategy, acknowledging the limitations of subscription-based models for mass consumer adoption.
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December 5, 2025

AI & Central Planning Are Propping Up the Economy | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on sectors backed by government policy and secular themes like metals and mining to lower internal volatility and stay ahead of potential inflation.
  2. Be wary of the market structure, especially with highly concentrated assets like MAG7, as high-frequency trading can amplify price abnormalities and systemic risks.
  3. Watch for policy shifts and potential bottlenecks in capacity build-out, commodities, and labor in the AI and energy sectors, which could catalyze significant market changes.
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December 5, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 147 - @dippy_ai $TAO Subnet 11

Hash Rate Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Experiential AI is exploding. User-driven interactive experiences are the future of entertainment and will rival traditional media consumption.
  2. BitTensor is now a competitive platform. The integration of subnets like Targon for inference showcases real-world enterprise use cases and cost-effective solutions, providing a compelling alternative to centralized providers.
  3. Community-Driven AI: User-generated content and interactive AI companions are creating new forms of social connection and entertainment, particularly for younger demographics.
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December 3, 2025

A Rosetta Stone for AI Benchmarks

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Current AI benchmarks are limited due to rapid saturation. The presented statistical framework addresses this by stitching together multiple benchmarks to provide a more comprehensive evaluation.
  2. The framework enables the tracking of model capabilities over time, offering insights into algorithmic improvements and forecasting potential AI advancements.
  3. Software improvements are rapidly accelerating AI development, requiring significantly fewer computational resources each year to achieve the same level of capability.
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December 4, 2025

Real On-Chain Agents? How Talus Solves What Crypto-AI Got Wrong

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. On-Chain Execution is Crucial: True crypto AI requires AI agents that operate entirely on-chain to maintain decentralization, verifiability, and auditability.
  2. Monetization is Key: For sustainable AI adoption, clear and viable business models are essential to drive value back to the creators and incentivize participation.
  3. Entertainment as a Catalyst: Leveraging entertainment through agent-versus-agent competitions can drive adoption and demonstrate the earning potential of AI agents, fostering a new AI entertainment economy.
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December 1, 2025

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Measure Usage, Not Just Spend. The biggest failure in enterprise AI is tracking software purchases as a proxy for progress. The focus must shift to measuring actual tool usage correlated with output.
  2. Solve for Fear, Not Features. Employee adoption hinges on psychological safety. The most powerful tools will fail if users are afraid of looking incompetent or getting fired for making a mistake.
  3. Competition Drives Augmentation, Not Unemployment. The "AI will take our jobs" narrative is a red herring. Companies will reinvest AI-driven productivity gains to crush competitors, not just to cut headcount.
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November 28, 2025

How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The "One Model" Thesis Is Dead.** The future belongs to a portfolio of specialized models. This creates distinct opportunities for both foundational labs and companies that can leverage proprietary data to build best-in-class models for niche applications.
  2. **Data Is the Ultimate Differentiator.** Reinforcement learning fine-tuning elevates proprietary data from a simple input for RAG systems to the core ingredient for building a defensible, state-of-the-art product.
  3. **Agents Will Specialize.** The agent ecosystem is bifurcating into two primary types: open-ended, creative agents for knowledge work and deterministic, procedural agents designed for enterprise automation where reliability and adherence to standard operating procedures are critical.
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November 27, 2025

The AI Economy Is Leaving Labor Behind | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Politics Will Trump Tech. Expect a policy pivot ahead of the 2024 election. The administration’s singular focus on AI stimulus is creating populist backlash, forcing a shift toward policies that support the broader labor market to secure votes.
  2. The AI Trade Is Evolving. The "Mag 7" may soon become regulated utilities. The next wave of winners will be legacy companies that successfully integrate AI to boost margins and the overlooked players in the AI supply chain, such as power and commodity providers.
  3. Prepare for a New Monetary Regime. The era of "QE Infinity" is ending. A post-Powell Fed is expected to move credit creation from its own balance sheet back to commercial banks, using deep rate cuts and deregulation to stimulate the economy.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 28, 2025

What Can DeFi Users Actually Do on Canton Network Today?

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Institutional Migration. As large-scale capital seeks on-chain efficiency, it will gravitate toward networks that offer privacy as a default.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor Infrastructure. Track the rollout of Canton-native stablecoins to identify when the liquidity floodgates open for professional traders.
  3. The Bottom Line: Canton is building for the "Quiet Money." If you are looking for the next dog coin, look elsewhere, but if you want to see how the global financial system actually moves on-chain, this is the network to watch over the next year.
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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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