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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 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 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 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 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 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

September 10, 2025

Former Barclays CEO’s Big Bet on Hyperliquid’s Explosive Growth |  Bob Diamond & David Schamis

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hyperliquid is a Cash Flow Machine. It is a rare crypto asset with quantifiable fundamentals, generating over $1B in annualized free cash flow with an automated, daily 99% buyback mechanism.
  2. Access is the Arbitrage. The NASDAQ-listed vehicle’s core value proposition is providing regulated access to an asset that US investors cannot easily buy, creating a structural opportunity.
  3. Innovation is Now Permissionless. Hyperliquid’s open architecture allows anyone to build on its rails, enabling new markets like pre-IPO equity trading and accelerating growth without traditional gatekeepers.
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September 9, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 132 - Real Quantum Computers on Bittensor $TAO (sn63 & sn48)

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Quantum for the Masses.** Subnet 48 is set to offer free public access to quantum computers, a service that costs thousands per hour, by leveraging Bittensor's tokenomics to subsidize the cost.
  2. **The Crypto Abstraction Playbook.** The Open Quantum platform provides a blueprint for onboarding mainstream users by hiding the blockchain behind a simple web interface with fiat payments, while still rewarding TAO stakers with platform credits.
  3. **The Bitcoin Countdown.** The threat of quantum computing cracking Bitcoin is a tangible, medium-term risk. The migration to quantum-safe encryption is a complex challenge that the industry must begin preparing for now.
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September 9, 2025

SEC Commissioner: A New Era For Crypto In The U.S | Hester Peirce

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Regulation by Enforcement is Over.** The SEC has abandoned its strategy of using lawsuits to create policy. The new focus is on providing clear guidance *before* bringing the hammer down, creating a more predictable environment for builders.
  2. **Liquid Staking Gets the Green Light.** In a major win for DeFi, the SEC has confirmed liquid staking tokens are not securities. This clears the path for protocols like Jito and could accelerate the approval of staked ETFs.
  3. **Build Now or Regret It Later.** Commissioner Peirce delivered a clear ultimatum to the industry: use this favorable regulatory window to build legitimate products. The long-term survival of crypto in the US depends on proving its utility *now*.
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September 8, 2025

pump.fun's Sapijiju: First-Ever Discussion on Building the Future of Social Trading

Delphi Digital

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Weaponized Capital: With nearly $2 billion on its balance sheet, pump.fun sees capital as a "weapon" for strategic acquisitions and user incentives to methodically capture market share from both crypto and Web2 incumbents.
  2. Creators Are the New Go-To-Market: The entire growth strategy hinges on a simple, powerful premise: pay creators exponentially more than anyone else. This is their path to onboarding millions of mainstream users who have never touched crypto.
  3. The Anti-VC Play: The platform’s raw, unfiltered nature is a direct response to a crypto industry viewed as rife with opaque, VC-backed projects. Its honesty and fun resonate with a generation tired of being retail exit liquidity.
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September 8, 2025

Ethena Founder: The Next Chapter For Ethena | Guy Young

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ethena's strategy provides a compelling look into the future of crypto-native finance, where on-chain efficiency meets the scale of traditional capital markets.
  2. **The New Carry Trade is Here.** DATs are evolving from simple holding vehicles into sophisticated structures designed to execute a powerful TradFi-to-DeFi carry trade, arbitraging global interest rate differentials at scale.
  3. **Finance Finally Scales Like Software.** Ethena’s model proves that on-chain finance can achieve massive profitability with minimal headcount, creating unparalleled operational leverage that traditional finance can't match.
  4. **Partnerships Require Surgical Precision.** The path to scale isn't about broad outreach. It's about surgically identifying and capturing the few key partners who can drive the vast majority of growth.
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September 3, 2025

Gold Is Breaking Out, BTC Next?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Gold's rally is fundamentally driven.** Falling rates and central bank de-dollarization are creating a powerful tailwind for the precious metal, signaling a major shift in global asset allocation.
  2. **Bitcoin is riding gold's coattails.** As the "digital gold" narrative strengthens, a rising gold price is perceived as a bullish leading indicator for BTC, with investors watching the BTC/Gold market cap ratio as a key metric.
  3. **Your past market experiences are blinding you.** Investors must actively identify and challenge their "childhood curses"—biases formed during previous market cycles—to capitalize on new trends.
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