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AI Podcasts

January 12, 2026

OpenAI + @Temporalio : Building Durable, Production Ready Agents - Cornelia Davis, Temporal

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from "Agent as a Script" to "Agent as a Durable Service" where state management is handled by the infrastructure.
  2. Wrap your existing API tools in the `activity_as_tool` function to gain automatic retries and execution history.
  3. Reliability is the only moat in the agentic economy. If your agent cannot survive a server restart during a three-day task, it is not ready for the enterprise.
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January 13, 2026

How Ladder Became #1 Strength Training App

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The move from fragmented content libraries to integrated health systems where AI synthesizes biomarkers and movement.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Construct internal LLM tools to categorize qualitative feedback. This turns thousands of raw reviews into a precise roadmap.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building a $100M ARR consumer app requires mastery of both growth loops and product retention. Solve for the daily habit to win the long game.
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January 13, 2026

Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose AI to specialized application layers. As foundation models commoditize, value migrates to the "fat tail" of human-centric complexity.
  2. Prioritize building or investing in "DNA of the future" companies that incumbents must eventually acquire to survive. Focus on winning the "point of attack" by staying deep in the technical details.
  3. We are in a unique market where demand growth justifies high valuations. Success over the next year depends on identifying founders who are the absolute best in the world at one specific thing.
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January 13, 2026

It's Time To Build

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Infrastructure Invisibility. As core technologies become background noise, value moves from the pipes to the unique experiences built on top of them.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Reject Mediocrity. Audit your product for average features and replace them with high-conviction improvements that competitors are too lazy to attempt.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building is the only way to ensure the future happens. If you do not create the next version of reality, you are stuck living in an outdated vision.
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January 13, 2026

Nothing’s Carl Pei on Building a $1B Smartphone Company and Why He Thinks About Death Every Week

The Generalist

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from hardware specs to emotional hardware where brand identity and OS-native AI become the primary moats.
  2. Prioritize arbitrage opportunities in marketing by finding underpriced attention on platforms like TikTok before they become crowded.
  3. Success in mature markets requires a Genghis Khan method: be a talent scout, stay open-minded to global supply chains, and use design to win the emotional battle for the consumer's pocket.
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January 12, 2026

Nvidia CES 2026

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from centralized cloud training to distributed local inference creates a massive demand for high-bandwidth storage and custom CPUs.
  2. Audit your technical roadmap to prioritize local agentic workflows that reduce latency and data privacy risks.
  3. The next 12 months will favor hardware that enables physical AI and local autonomy. Owning the compute stack is becoming a competitive necessity for builders who want to move faster than the cloud allows.
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January 9, 2026

Spec-Driven Development: Sharpening your AI toolbox - Al Harris, Amazon Kiro

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "vibe coding" to "spec-driven" engineering.
  2. Implement EARS-formatted requirements in your AI prompts.
  3. Determinism is the ultimate feature for AI-assisted development.
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January 8, 2026

Post-training best-in-class models in 2025

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Intelligence is decoupling from scale. As reasoning becomes a commodity, the value moves from the size of the model to the proprietary nature of the training data.
  2. Use TRL or Unsloth for single-GPU fine-tuning. Prioritize cleaning your instruction sets over increasing your training iterations.
  3. The future belongs to those who own their data pipelines. If you can distill elite reasoning into a 350M parameter model, you win on latency, cost, and privacy.
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January 8, 2026

Intelligent Robots in 2026: Are We There Yet? [Nikita Rudin] - 760

The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Moving from Blind Locomotion to Semantic Navigation defines the next frontier.
  2. Prioritize modular architectures that use off-the-shelf VLMs for task orchestration.
  3. Expect the first value-positive humanoid deployments in late 2026.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 24, 2025

Regulation Shifts as Security Becomes the Real Risk

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Evolution: The Institutional Osmosis. Crypto is no longer a parallel universe but a high-speed rail for traditional assets.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit Your Humans. Implement "Camera-On" policies and cross-verify identities via physical meetups to neutralize remote infiltration.
  3. The Bottom Line: Survival in the next 12 months depends on moving from "Degen" security to "Enterprise" resilience as the lines between Coinbase and BlackRock vanish.
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December 23, 2025

The End of Forever Games Is Closer Than You Think

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Content Abundance vs. Attention Scarcity. As AI makes the "what" of gaming cheap, the "where" (distribution) and "who" (high-LTV users) become the only defensible assets.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Skin the Game. Use AI to rapidly iterate on visual assets for existing mechanics to capture trending subcultures within crypto communities.
  3. The Bottom Line: The future of gaming isn't about building a 10-year world; it's about building high-fidelity, ephemeral experiences that drive value to on-chain ecosystems.
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December 23, 2025

Ben Cowen on Where Crypto is Going in 2026

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Macro gravity is currently winning as high interest rates suppress risk-on assets while AI captures the remaining speculative energy.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Accumulate Ethereum only when it enters the regression band and Bitcoin when it touches the 200-week moving average.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next major opportunity likely arrives in the summer of 2026 when monetary policy finally turns accommodative and the labor market stabilizes.
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December 23, 2025

How Kamino Became Solana's Largest Lending Protocol | Marius Ciubotariu

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from utilization-based pools to intent-based matching engines is the next evolution of DeFi. This movement mirrors the move from AMMs to order books in spot trading.
  2. Monitor the rollout of Kamino’s fixed-rate products to lock in borrowing costs for geared positions. This move protects against the volatility of variable rate markets during high-activity periods.
  3. Kamino is positioning itself as the back-end for the next generation of fintech. If they successfully bridge off-chain collateral, the protocol moves from a crypto-native tool to a global financial utility.
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December 23, 2025

Why Privacy Is Finally Making A Comeback (...And What Comes Next)

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: The Truth Layer. As AI erodes the reliability of information, the market will value proof of origin over privacy of data.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit the Stack. Integrate ZK-based verifiability into your data pipelines now to future-proof against AI-generated exploits.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next decade belongs to systems that provide cryptographic certainty in an uncertain world.
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December 23, 2025

Gold Hits $4,400 as Bitcoin Lags, TGEs Fail & Coinbase Expands: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Liquidity is returning as the Treasury General Account drains, but capital is becoming more selective. The "rising tide" no longer lifts all boats; it only lifts those with clear value capture.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize protocols with intrinsic cash flow or those partnering with legacy giants like FIS. Move away from "lottery ticket" tokens that lack a clear revenue mechanism.
  3. The Bottom Line: 2026 will be the year of the "Quality Filter." Investors who survive the current wash-out will find value in the consolidation of the super apps and the institutionalization of on-chain credit.
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