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AI Podcasts

August 8, 2025

GPT-5 and Agents Breakdown – w/ OpenAI Researchers Isa Fulford & Christina Kim

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. From Prompts to Projects. The focus is shifting from single-shot answers to long-running, asynchronous tasks. The willingness of users to wait for high-quality output unlocks complex use cases, turning AI from a chatbot into a digital chief of staff.
  2. Data is the New Oil, Again. With learning algorithms becoming hyper-efficient, the primary bottleneck is no longer compute or architecture, but the creation of high-quality, task-specific data and realistic reinforcement learning environments.
  3. Taste is the Ultimate Differentiator. As AI becomes a commodity, the ability to define a problem with simplicity and elegance—"good taste"—is the most valuable, non-commoditizable skill in AI development.
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August 7, 2025

Hivemind: Don’t Sleep on Ethena, Bull Case for Galaxy & The Hyperliquid Future

Empire

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Galaxy is an AI Data Center Play. The market misunderstands GLXY as a crypto bank. The real thesis is its emergent data center business, which positions it as a key infrastructure provider for the AI revolution.
  2. Ethena & Hyperliquid are Revenue Machines with Clear Catalysts. Ethena is set to benefit directly from Fed rate cuts, while Hyperliquid's upcoming HIP-3 upgrade will unlock permissionless markets for any asset, creating a powerful growth flywheel.
  3. Digital Asset Treasuries (DATs) are the New Institutional Bid. Forget the old "institutions are coming" meme. They're here, spinning up public vehicles to gain exposure to high-growth assets like ENA and HYP that aren't easily accessible through ETFs.
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August 6, 2025

From the Dot-Com Crash to the AI Era: How Builders Survive Waves of Disruption

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Market Trumps Team.** The most critical factor for success is timing. Don't fight the mega-trend; ensure AI is a tailwind for whatever you build. A great team in a bad market will lose to a good team in a great market.
  2. **Attack the Beachhead.** To disrupt an incumbent or create a new category, you must be 10x better or do something previously impossible. Start with a hyper-specific "ideal practitioner profile," saturate that niche, and only then expand.
  3. **Innovate or Die.** Cashing out a tech business without aggressive innovation is a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure. The formula is simple: get 1.27% better every day. The power of compounding in product development is unstoppable.
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August 6, 2025

Novelty Search July 31, 2025

taostats

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **DTAO is a Feature, Not a Bug.** The system's sell pressure is an intentional guardrail against manipulation. It’s designed to reward long-term, high-conviction investors over a year-long cycle, not short-term traders.
  2. **Stop Complaining, Start Staking.** Miner burns are an economic choice. The protocol won’t intervene; the only cryptographic solution is for opponents to accumulate stake and participate in governance by running validators.
  3. **The Stack is the Strategy.** BitTensor is building a modular AI network. Subnets like Aphīne demonstrate the end-game: integrating specialized layers like inference and fine-tuning to deliver top-tier AI products on a fully decentralized back-end.
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August 5, 2025

Empire Cross-Post: The Bull Case For GLXY With Duncan & Rittenhouse Research

Bell Curve

AI
Key Takeaways
  1. A Pick-and-Shovel Play on Two Megatrends. GLXY provides exposure to both the institutionalization of crypto and the insatiable demand for AI data center capacity, all in a single stock.
  2. The Data Center is the Crown Jewel. The CoreWeave contract provides a solid revenue baseline, but the real upside is the 1.7 GW expansion pipeline, which could transform Galaxy into a top-tier AI infrastructure player.
  3. An Undervalued and Misunderstood Story. The stock's complexity creates a valuation disconnect. As the Helios data center begins generating cash flow in 2026, the narrative will become clearer, potentially forcing a significant market re-rating.
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August 5, 2025

DeepMind's Secret AI Project That Will Change Everything [EXCLUSIVE]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. World Models are the New Game Engines: Genie 3 generates interactive, real-time worlds from text, bypassing the need for explicit coding of physics or 3D assets. Its consistency is an emergent property, not a programmed feature.
  2. The Key to Unlocking Real-World AI: The primary goal is to create a scalable, safe simulation platform for training robotic agents. By prompting rare events, Genie 3 can prepare AI for the unpredictability of the real world, aiming for a breakthrough in robotics.
  3. Creativity Remains Human-Driven: While powerful, Genie 3 is a tool that amplifies human creativity, not a replacement for it. The quality and novelty of the generated world depend heavily on the specificity and skill of the human prompter.
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August 5, 2025

Marc Andreessen: The US is in a AI Arms Race & It Decides The World's Future

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Go All-In on Embodied AI. The US must aggressively pursue leadership in robotics and advanced manufacturing. This isn't about nostalgia; it's about owning the largest economic and national security opportunity of the 21st century.
  2. Declare War on Regulatory Cartels. The "cost disease" in housing, healthcare, and education is a policy failure. To make the American Dream affordable again requires dismantling the regulations that protect incumbents and block technological disruption.
  3. Bridge the Divide with New Industry. The only sustainable way to heal the urban-rural chasm is to create new economic opportunities in the heartland. A robotics-led industrial boom can provide high-quality jobs across the country, turning a zero-sum political fight into a positive-sum national mission.
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August 5, 2025

The New Era Of Distribution with Ram Kumar & Eowyn Chen

The Rollup

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. A new economic model is emerging where AI and crypto converge, transforming how value is created and distributed.
  2. AI Is Becoming Specialized, Not Generalized. Forget one-size-fits-all AI. The future is in niche, fine-tuned models trained on proprietary data for specific tasks like DeFi optimization and on-chain security, making generic models like ChatGPT look like a blunt instrument.
  3. Your Wallet Is Your Paycheck. Crypto wallets are becoming the interface for a new data economy. Users will transition from being unpaid data sources to active contributors who get rewarded with tokens for training specialized AI models.
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August 4, 2025

Dwarkesh Patel and Noah Smith on AGI and the Economy

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Redefine AGI from Consciousness to Commerce. Forget Turing tests. The real benchmark for AGI is its ability to automate ~95% of white-collar work. The biggest missing piece isn't reasoning, but the capacity for continuous, on-the-job learning.
  2. Prepare for an Economic Singularity. Post-AGI growth won't be an incremental bump; it will be an explosive shift to 20%+ annual growth, driven by infinitely scalable AI labor. The bottleneck won't be human demand but the ambitions of the agents controlling the AI.
  3. The AGI Race Is More Industrial Revolution than Cold War. AGI is not a single bomb but a transformative process. The key risk isn't one nation nuking another, but advanced AIs playing nations against each other, much like the East India Company did in India.
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Crypto Podcasts

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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December 24, 2025

12 Big Crypto Predictions for 2026

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The movement from "Crypto as an Asset" to "Crypto as Infrastructure" where public ledgers settle everything from payroll to global equities.
  2. Prioritize protocols with explicit fee-sharing or buy-and-burn mechanisms that capture on-chain revenue as value moves to the application layer.
  3. 2026 is the year the "DeFi Mullet" (Fintech in the front, DeFi in the back) becomes the standard operating procedure for the global economy.
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December 24, 2025

Why This Isn’t A Bubble & Early 2026 Looks Like Goldilocks | Warren Pies

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The migration from cyclical to software-driven earnings creates a higher floor for valuations that traditional bears ignore.
  2. Accumulate industrial and precious metals before the market prices in the late 2026 overheating phase.
  3. The path to S&P 8,000 is paved with high margins and a Fed that cannot afford to stop easing.
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December 24, 2025

Why It Matters That Crypto Is Not Purely for Degens Anymore: DEX in the City

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Crypto is adapting to the real world rather than forcing the world to adapt to it.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Build for institutional compatibility by integrating modular compliance tools before they become mandatory.
  3. The Bottom Line: The death of "crypto" as a niche category is the birth of crypto as a global standard.
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December 23, 2025

Is Now a Good Time to Buy BTC? Or Should You Wait for THIS Setup? - Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Deregulation is the new meta-theme. As the "Empire Strikes Back," traditional giants like Visa and Stripe will integrate crypto rails and turn the tech into invisible "TCP/IP" for finance.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Monitor M&A activity during holiday periods. Look for "quality supply" consolidation where winners absorb the IP of failing projects.
  3. The Bottom Line: 2026 is the target for a high-quality rally. The current shakeout is a feature designed to filter out the "nonsense supply" before the $40 trillion RIA channel arrives.
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December 24, 2025

How Crypto Users Get Rekt and How You Can Stay Safe

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Human Layer Exploit. As code becomes more robust, the attack surface moves to the people managing it. Security is now an HR and psychology problem as much as a technical one.
  2. Deploy YubiKeys. Replace SMS and app-based 2FA with hardware keys to stop phishing. If a site cannot talk to your physical key, the attacker cannot steal your session.
  3. Security is a process of adding layers, not a one-time audit. If you do not have a "blast radius" strategy to isolate your funds, you are one bad click away from a total loss.
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