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AI Podcasts

May 25, 2025

How Endless Debt Became America's Culture

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Debt is Destiny:** America's fiscal irresponsibility and cultural embrace of debt ensure ongoing money printing and inflation, making currency debasement a near certainty.
  2. **The One True Trade:** Forget complex analytics; the primary goal is preserving purchasing power. This means owning store-of-value assets like Bitcoin and gold, which are positioned to thrive.
  3. **AI Accelerates the Crisis:** Artificial intelligence will not only disrupt labor markets but also intensify the debt crisis by devaluing traditional education and fueling calls for more government relief.
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May 24, 2025

SN85 :: VIDAIO :: Decentralized AI Video Upscaling & Compression ++ Roadmap & Enterprise Utility

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Decentralized AI is Production-Ready: VIDAIO demonstrates that complex AI tasks like video processing can be effectively decentralized and optimized through BitTensor's subnet model, with miners already outperforming base models.
  2. Perceptual Quality Wins: Focusing on human-perceived video quality, rather than just raw specs, is key for AI video tools, leading to more efficient and visually appealing results.
  3. Subnets Must Aim for Self-Sufficiency: The long-term viability of BitTensor subnets hinges on generating real-world revenue and solving actual customer problems, moving beyond reliance on token emissions.
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May 24, 2025

Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. National AI is Non-Negotiable: Countries are investing heavily in "AI factories" to control their digital destiny and cultural narratives.
  2. Models are Culture: AI outputs reflect embedded values, making local control over AI development and deployment a geopolitical imperative.
  3. Lead by Building Better: The US can maintain AI leadership by out-innovating competitors and enabling allies, pursuing "foundation model diplomacy" to ensure its technology underpins global progress.
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May 23, 2025

How Decentralized Data Marketplaces Could Reshape AI Forever

The People's AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Data is the New Asset Class: Vana is pioneering frameworks (like VRC20) to treat data as an ownable, tradable asset, potentially revolutionizing finance as much as property ownership once did.
  2. Market Makers Will Ignite Liquidity: The emergence of "data market makers" is projected to significantly enhance capital flow and price discovery in decentralized data marketplaces.
  3. From UBI to UDI: Instead of a Universal Basic Income, imagine a Universal Data Income where you’re paid for your unique data contributions that make AI more human and effective.
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May 23, 2025

Building AI Systems You Can Trust

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trust Trumps Tweaks: Stop chasing marginal performance gains if you haven't nailed reliability; the biggest barrier to AI value is a lack of confidence, not capability.
  2. Embrace Behavioral Intelligence: Shift from only evaluating final outputs to continuously testing the how and why of AI behavior across the entire system, especially for non-deterministic and non-stationary models.
  3. Platformize for Prudence: Enterprises must build or adopt centralized GenAI platforms with robust logging and testing to manage risk, ensure consistency, and provide developers with the tools to build trustworthy AI.
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May 22, 2025

AI, Middle East, China, Tariffs, Recon Bill, Invest America | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley & Brad Gerstner

Bg2 Pod

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Diplomacy is a Two-Way Street: The US pivot to an open, partnership-based AI strategy, particularly in the Middle East, is attracting massive reciprocal investment and securing American tech leadership.
  2. Calculated Tariffs, Critical Tech Race: A more pragmatic China tariff policy ($300B projected) offers market stability, but ongoing AI chip export bans may inadvertently fuel China's independent tech advancement.
  3. Foundational Economic & Legal Shifts Brewing: "Invest America" within the Recon Bill signifies a novel approach to wealth distribution, while challenges to Delaware's corporate law dominance and new crypto regulations like the "Genius Act" signal major structural reforms in legal and financial landscapes.
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May 21, 2025

David Choi & Conor Moore: USD.AI - Financing the Future of AI Infra

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. USDAI is pioneering a new model for real-world asset (RWA) financing, focusing on the booming AI and DePIN hardware sector. It combines robust legal frameworks with DeFi mechanisms to offer compelling yield opportunities and solve critical growth bottlenecks.
  2. Real Yield, Real Assets: USDAI offers a sustainable yield (targeting mid-teens to 20% APY for stakers at maturity) backed by productive, cash-flowing hardware, not just crypto-speculation.
  3. DePIN Scalability Unlocked: Provides a crucial debt financing layer for capital-intensive DePIN operators, enabling faster growth and reduced reliance on inflationary token incentives.
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May 17, 2025

The Time To Invest Is Now

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Invest in Robotics Now: The sector presents a rare chance to buy into a long-term secular growth story at cyclically depressed prices, just as the related automotive downturn shows signs of bottoming.
  2. Humanoids are Affordable & Approaching: With models priced competitively and key costs in mechanics, not chips, the widespread adoption of humanoid robots is increasingly practical.
  3. Teleoperation is the Bridge: Expect an interim period where humans remotely pilot robots, creating "Robotics as a Service" and smoothly transitioning labor before full AI autonomy dominates.
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May 16, 2025

ChatGPT Codex: The Missing Manual

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. ChatGPT Codex isn't just another coding assistant; it's a leap towards autonomous software engineering agents. Success hinges on a new collaborative mindset and preparing codebases for AI interaction.
  2. Delegate, Don't Micromanage: Leverage ChatGPT Codex's ability to run multiple (even 60/hour) long-running tasks in parallel. Think abundance, not scarcity of compute.
  3. Structure for Success: Implement agents.md, linters, and modular architecture. This isn't just good practice; it’s crucial for AI agent performance.
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Crypto Podcasts

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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December 19, 2025

Crypto Is Not Dead | Livestream

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The "crypto fund" label will fade. Investors and builders must specialize in specific verticals (fintech, gaming, etc.) that happen to use blockchain, rather than just "crypto."
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Prioritize applications that abstract away crypto for the end-user. For investors, scrutinize projects for clear, sustainable monetization strategies beyond tokenomics.
  3. The "So What?": Over the next 6-12 months, the market will reward projects that successfully bridge the gap to non-crypto users, demonstrating real-world utility and robust business models. Those clinging to cryptonative-only strategies risk irrelevance.
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