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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 20, 2025

How AI Agents Are Replacing Hedge Fund Managers with Pei Chen of Theoriq

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Agentic Finance is Here: Autonomous AI agents will manage significant capital, requiring robust guardrails and verifiable security.
  2. Distribution Wins: For AI models, deep integration into existing user ecosystems and multi-platform functionality will drive adoption and performance.
  3. Human Roles Evolve: Builders must design for human-AI collaboration, focusing on AI as an accelerator for specialized human expertise, not a full replacement.
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December 19, 2025

Think You Have Token Holder Rights? Think Again - Uneasy Money

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The current DeFi landscape is unsustainable without clearer definitions of token holder rights and founder accountability. Expect continued "DAO warfare" and founder exits until these structural issues are addressed.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: For builders, prioritize explicit, transparent legal and technical structures from day one. For investors, assume tokens offer no inherent rights beyond what is explicitly stated and legally enforceable.
  3. The "So What?": The industry needs "light-form" regulatory clarity and standardized norms, potentially driven by centralized exchanges, to foster trust and enable sustainable innovation beyond pure speculation in the next 6-12 months.
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December 19, 2025

Why Crypto as a Subculture Is Dying, but Why That's a Good Thing

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The "four-year cycle" driven by speculative behavior is likely dead. The industry's maturation will be marked by sustainable business models, not just macro-driven asset prices.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Prioritize utility and user experience over tokenomics and crypto-native branding. Invest in projects solving real-world problems for a broad audience, not just those chasing the next airdrop.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will see a continued shift towards applications that abstract away blockchain complexity, making crypto an invisible, powerful backend for mainstream products.
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December 20, 2025

Crypto Treasury Stocks Trade Far Below Their Holdings. Is It Time to Buy?

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The market is re-evaluating crypto-holding companies, punishing those without clear value-add beyond asset accumulation. The "MNAV of 1" is the expected long-term anchor.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: This is a high-conviction, long-term play, not a quick arbitrage. Investors must conduct deep due diligence on each company's balance sheet, share structure, and operational strategy.
  3. The "So What?": For the next 6-12 months, expect continued volatility and company-specific challenges. The path to MNAV parity will be bumpy, driven by broader market recovery, potential M&A, and individual company execution, not a simple market mechanism.
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December 20, 2025

Coinbase Goes All In, JPMorgan Brings Funds Onchain: Weekly Recap

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tokenization is the Trojan Horse: TradFi isn't just observing; it's actively building on public blockchains. Tokenized real-world assets (RWAs) are the primary vector for institutional adoption.
  2. Governance Matters: For builders, robust and transparent DAO governance is paramount. For investors, scrutinize projects for clear value accrual to token holders and potential conflicts between core teams and DAOs.
  3. Regulatory Nuance: The Fed's policy shift suggests a move towards more nuanced regulation, potentially opening doors for regulated entities to engage with digital assets.
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December 20, 2025

Most Tokenization Projects Fail. Here’s Why One Succeeded: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Patience Pays: Successful RWA tokenization requires a multi-year commitment to building infrastructure and liquidity, even if it means foregoing immediate profits.
  2. Builders & Investors: Focus on Wallets & DApps: The future is self-custody wallets interacting with specialized, best-in-class DApps, not centralized "super apps." Build intuitive wallet experiences and highly efficient DApps.
  3. The "So What?": Expect a significant migration of traditional financial assets and liabilities onto DeFi protocols over the next 6-12 months, driven by institutional adoption and regulatory clarity, leading to lower costs for consumers and new opportunities for capital.
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