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AI Podcasts

December 11, 2025

No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski

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

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: The future of human-computer interaction is voice-first, moving from static content to dynamic, personalized, and agentic experiences.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Defensibility in AI is increasingly found in deep product layers, specialized architectural breakthroughs (especially in audio), and robust ecosystems, not just raw model scale.
  3. The "So What?": Over the next 6-12 months, expect to see significant advancements in proactive AI agents, immersive media, and personalized education, with voice as the core interface.
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December 10, 2025

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI-Delegation Revolution is Here: Start experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT for delegation now. The future involves proactive machine assistants deeply integrated into your workflow.
  2. Builders & Investors: Focus on "How to Delegate": The biggest constraint isn't finding assistants, but teaching clients how to delegate effectively. Tools and services that educate delegators will win.
  3. Reclaim Your Ambition: By offloading the mundane, you free up mental bandwidth to think bigger, pursue more ambitious goals, and ultimately, control your most valuable asset: time.
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December 12, 2025

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The AI bubble is inevitable. Focus on defensible positions: deep product integration, proprietary data, and distribution, rather than just raw model performance.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: The opportunity lies in productizing AI for specific "jobs to be done" within niche industries, creating intuitive UIs, and building in validation, not just building another foundational model.
  3. The "So What?": We're about to figure out the true "job to be done" for many industries. AI will unbundle existing businesses by exposing their hidden inefficiencies or non-obvious defensibilities.
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December 13, 2025

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Parsimony and Self-Consistency: Adopt these principles as guiding forces in AI design. Build models that not only compress data efficiently but also maintain a high degree of self-consistency to ensure accurate and reliable world models.
  2. Focus on Abstraction, Not Just Memorization: Prioritize developing systems that can abstract knowledge beyond mere memorization. Move beyond surface-level compression and aim for models that can discover and reason about the underlying principles of the world.
  3. Understand and Reproduce the Brain’s Mechanisms: Focus on understanding and reproducing the mechanisms in the human brain that enable deductive reasoning, logical thinking, and the creation of new scientific theories to truly push AI to the next level.
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December 10, 2025

Nav Kumar: Trishool, AI Alignment, Subnet 23, Mechanistic Interpretability, Rogue LLMs | Ep. 75

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Prioritize AI Safety Research:** Invest aggressively in understanding and mitigating AI risks to safeguard humanity against potential rogue LLMs.
  2. **Support Decentralized AI Alignment:** Champion decentralized platforms like Bit Tensor and initiatives like Trishool that promote open and transparent AI alignment research.
  3. **Embrace Mechanistic Interpretability:** Drive the development of tools that enable us to understand and control the internal workings of AI models, ensuring alignment with human values.
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December 10, 2025

Everyone Needs an Assistant. Here’s Why.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Delegation as a Foundational Skill: Whether you leverage AI or human support, mastering delegation is paramount for unlocking personal and professional potential.
  2. Prioritize Time Ownership: Recognize time as your most valuable asset and design your life and calendar around your highest goals.
  3. Start Small, Scale Intentionally: Begin with affordable AI tools and gradually incorporate human assistance as your budget and needs evolve, building trust and compounding leverage over time.
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December 8, 2025

Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Analog:** Explore and invest in analog computing solutions to overcome the energy limitations of current digital AI systems.
  2. **Prioritize Causality:** Shift focus towards AI models that incorporate time and causality, potentially unlocking more advanced and human-like intelligence.
  3. **Support Hardware Innovation:** Invest in and foster startups like Unconventional AI that are tackling fundamental challenges in AI hardware.
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December 8, 2025

Why AI Will Have To Run On Blockchains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Blockchain is essential for AI to ensure censorship resistance and uninterrupted accessibility.
  2. Trustworthy AI agents require on-chain governance to manage assets securely and transparently.
  3. AI agents can drastically accelerate blockchain adoption and optimize corporate processes.
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December 7, 2025

Tensor Logic "Unifies" AI Paradigms [Pedro Domingos]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tensor Logic provides a unified framework for AI, bridging the gap between symbolic AI and deep learning, offering improved reasoning, transparency, and efficiency.
  2. The language addresses the limitations of current AI systems, enabling reliable deduction and facilitating structure learning through gradient descent, paving the way for more interpretable and controllable AI.
  3. Tensor Logic has the potential to advance AI education by providing a single language for teaching the entire gamut of AI. Its gradual adoption path allows developers to integrate it into existing workflows.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 23, 2025

Why Isn't Bitcoin Going Up? | Jeff Park

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The retailification of finance is merging public and private markets, making conviction more valuable than spreadsheets.
  2. Monitor high-conviction government rumors or national strategic transitions to front-run institutional capital that is too slow to move on ideology.
  3. Success in the next year depends on viewing volatility and privacy as core features rather than bugs in the system.
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December 22, 2025

Bitcoin Needs Vol, BTC vs Gold, Retail Trading Edge, 2026 Predictions | Jeff Park

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The retailification of finance is merging public and private markets. Every news event is becoming a tradable asset.
  2. Stop competing with bots on spreadsheets. Identify national strategic priorities that drive durable capital flows.
  3. Bitcoin’s next leg up depends on a return to its roots as a volatile and self-custodial alternative to the legacy system.
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December 22, 2025

The State of Crypto, 2026 Predictions & Espresso's Token Launch | Jill Gunter

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from Crypto as a Cult to Crypto as a Rail means the next winners will look like boring fintech giants rather than flashy token launches.
  2. Focus on infrastructure projects solving for fast finality and interoperability. These are the toll booths for the coming wave of corporate tokenization.
  3. The next 12 months will be defined by the Corpo Chain explosion. If you are not building for speed and performance, you are building for a niche that is shrinking.
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December 22, 2025

Is The Crypto-Native Era Coming to an End? - Lessons from 10 Years in Crypto

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "Crypto-Native" to "Invisible Backend" means value accrues to protocols that function like Linux.
  2. Monitor the 2026 IPO window for SpaceX and OpenAI to anticipate a major capital rotation.
  3. Success in the next decade requires building for the 99% who do not care about decentralization.
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December 19, 2025

Crypto Prices Are Down...Builders Aren’t!

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Fiat is failing as a currency, resulting in a push toward assets that maintain or grow purchasing power.
  2. DeFi offers real yield opportunities, making it a compelling alternative for capital preservation.
  3. Traditional finance is validating public blockchains, indicating a significant shift in finance towards crypto integration.
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December 21, 2025

Bittensor Brief #15: $TAO Bull Case + Bitcast SN93

Hash Rate Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: Bittensor's unique decentralized AI model, coupled with Bitcoin-like scarcity and a self-marketing subnet, sets it apart as a foundational AI infrastructure play.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: The $TAO halving creates a significant supply shock. Builders should observe Bitcast's "one-click mining" and AI-powered automation as a blueprint for efficient decentralized applications.
  3. The So What?: The convergence of reduced supply and increased marketing via Bitcast could drive substantial demand for $TAO over the next 6-12 months, making it a critical asset for those tracking the AI and crypto intersection.
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