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AI Podcasts

January 8, 2026

AI, markets, and power: A conversation with Paul Krugman

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capital is replacing labor as the primary driver of productivity.
  2. Prioritize investments in incumbents with massive distribution or lean startups that swap payroll for compute.
  3. The US remains the primary engine of growth but the internal divide between tech hubs and the hinterland will widen as AI concentrates wealth.
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January 9, 2026

Artificial Analysis: The Independent LLM Analysis House — with George Cameron and Micah Hill-Smith

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The decoupling of parameter count from active compute via sparsity means intelligence is becoming a software optimization problem as much as a hardware one.
  2. Audit your agentic workflows for turn efficiency rather than just cost per token.
  3. In a world of infinite tokens, the winner is the one who can verify the truth the fastest.
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January 7, 2026

Marc Andreessen's 2026 Outlook: AI Timelines, US vs. China, and The Price of AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "adding machines" to "human cognition" models is an 80-year correction finally hitting the vertical part of the S-curve.
  2. Prioritize application-specific models that backward-integrate into the stack.
  3. AI is a physical and digital build-out that will define the next decade of global power.
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January 6, 2026

Who Controls AI's Future? The Battle for GPU Access | CoreWeave SVP

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose compute to specialized AI infrastructure mirrors the rise of Snowflake in the data era.
  2. Audit your current cloud spend to identify where generalist latency is throttling your GPU goodput.
  3. Performance bars move every two years. If your infrastructure isn't purpose-built for AI today, you will be priced out of the market tomorrow.
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January 5, 2026

Welcome to AIE CODE - Jed Borovik, Google DeepMind

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: The transition from LLMs as chat interfaces to LLMs as logic engines. As models move from text prediction to logic execution, the value moves from the model itself to the verification systems surrounding it.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit the stack. Prioritize the integration of agentic coding tools like Jules to shorten the feedback loop between ideation and deployment.
  3. The Bottom Line: Code is the only medium where AI can self-correct and scale without human intervention. The next 12 months will be defined by who can turn raw model power into reliable, self-healing code.
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January 5, 2026

Claude Agent SDK [Full Workshop] — Thariq Shihipar, Anthropic

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Moving from "Model-as-a-Service" to "Environment-as-a-Service" where the harness matters as much as the weights.
  2. Replace your bespoke API tools with a single bash tool. Use a well-structured file system.
  3. The next year belongs to builders who stop treating LLMs as chatbots. They will treat them as system administrators.
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January 6, 2026

Building durable Agents with Workflow DevKit & AI SDK - Peter Wielander, Vercel

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: We are moving from "fire-and-forget" prompts to durable execution environments where state is as important as the model itself.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Wrap your existing tool calls in the `useStep` function to gain instant retry logic and execution history.
  3. The Bottom Line: Reliability is the primary moat in the agent market. Builders who adopt durable workflows will move to production while others are still debugging local scripts.
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January 6, 2026

Build a Prompt Learning Loop - SallyAnn DeLucia & Fuad Ali, Arize

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The move from manual prompt engineering to automated prompt learning. As models become commodities, the proprietary loop that refines them becomes the moat.
  2. Implement a Train-Test Split for your prompts. Use a subset of failure data to generate new rules and validate them against a separate holdout set to ensure the logic holds.
  3. Reliability is the only metric that matters for agent adoption. If you are not using a feedback loop to update your system instructions, you are building on sand.
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January 6, 2026

The Netflix Culture Code That Changed Entertainment Forever | Reed Hastings Interview

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The move from industrial management to creative inspiration. As AI automates routine tasks, the only remaining value is high-variance human creativity.
  2. Apply the Keeper Test today. Ask your leads which team members they would fight for and provide generous exits for the rest to reset your talent bar.
  3. Scaling doesn't require more rules. It requires better people. If you can maintain talent density, you can run fast while your competitors choke on their own handbooks.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 7, 2026

Pudgy Penguins’ Luca Netz on the Mistake Crypto Keeps Making

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: We are moving from a world where everything must be decentralized to a bifurcated model where some chains secure value and others power commerce.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Abstract the infrastructure by building applications that hide the wallet and gas fees behind a familiar Web2 login.
  3. The Bottom Line: Mass adoption requires a "centralized" user experience powered by a "decentralized" rail to survive the next 12 months.
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January 6, 2026

Where To Allocate In 2026 | Matty Taylor

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Sovereign assets are moving from tokenized versions of old equities to entirely new primitives that offer better governance and transparency.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Ditch the SAFE and Token Warrant combo for the Stamp to align early investors with long-term token health.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next year will reward founders who embrace public-market transparency and technical experiments over those chasing the current meta.
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January 6, 2026

Markets React to U.S. Capture of Maduro

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Production for Security. As globalization fractures, the US is trading ESG idealism for hard-asset reality.
  2. Buy Energy Infrastructure. Focus on SMR nuclear and solar companies that bypass traditional regulatory bottlenecks.
  3. Dollarized tech. This secures the energy needed for the AI and crypto buildout over the next decade.
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January 5, 2026

Bitcoin’s Back, Venezuela Regime Change, Memecoins, 2026 Mega Trends

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Geopolitical realignment is turning Bitcoin from a speculative asset into a tool of statecraft.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Buy Bitcoin calls dated for late January to capture the $125k target.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next six months will reward those who recognize that the "printing money" era has evolved into a "seizing assets" era.
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January 5, 2026

Inside SharpLink's Massive Ethereum Bet With CEO Joseph Chalom

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The migration from "Crypto" to "Digital Finance" where the underlying tech becomes invisible.
  2. Audit your protocol's risk disclosures. Prioritize security and third-party code reviews to attract institutional capital.
  3. Ethereum is the leading candidate for the world's financial operating system because it has ten years of zero downtime and a massive validator base.
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January 5, 2026

How the Stablecoin Milkshake will Redollarize the World

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The US is moving from "analog" dollar dominance to a high-velocity digital network that absorbs global liquidity faster than ever.
  2. Maintain exposure to US equities and gold while keeping dollar-denominated cash in short-term bonds to capitalize on the next volatility spike.
  3. The dollar isn't dying; it is being upgraded. Expect the "Milkshake" to suck up global capital as foreign economies struggle with debt and declining growth.
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