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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 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 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 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 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 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

August 25, 2025

Can Rate Cuts Save Crypto’s Bull Market?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Macro is your north star.** The crypto market's direction is dictated by Fed policy. Rate cuts are the narrative, and trillions are waiting on the sidelines to flood into risk assets.
  2. **Take profits aggressively.** We are in the "stupid" phase of the cycle. Systematically sell portions of your holdings at 20%, 50%, and 100% gains to de-risk before the music stops.
  3. **Scrutinize DAOs.** Many are exit liquidity schemes. Only consider those with strong guardrails, like mandatory fresh capital matching, that bring new money into the ecosystem.
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August 25, 2025

Commissioner Peirce On SEC’s Next Moves

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Frameworks, Not Fights: The SEC is shifting from broad prohibitions to creating specific, workable rules for token launches. The goal is to bring this crucial capital formation activity back to the U.S. under a clear and compliant regime.
  2. Decentralization Changes the Game: True decentralization isn't just a buzzword; it fundamentally challenges the existing regulatory model. For truly peer-to-peer protocols, the old playbook of licensing intermediaries may no longer apply.
  3. The Best Defense is Utility: The crypto industry's greatest protection against future regulatory hostility is to build things with real, lasting value. Use this period of clearer skies to create products and services that prove the technology's worth beyond speculation.
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August 24, 2025

Will LINK Flip XRP? with Zach Rynes

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bet on the Ecosystem, Not the Silo: Chainlink’s value is tied to the growth of the entire blockchain space, making it a diversified bet on institutional adoption. XRP’s success is a narrow wager on its own ledger and asset gaining dominance.
  2. Follow the Proof, Not the Promises: Chainlink’s public partnerships with firms like Swift and JP Morgan provide concrete evidence of traction. This stands in sharp contrast to XRP's long-unfulfilled, NDA-shrouded narrative.
  3. Infrastructure is the Ultimate Power Play: By providing a comprehensive suite of essential services (data, cross-chain, compliance), Chainlink is building a defensible moat as the go-to infrastructure platform for Web3, with no direct all-in-one competitor in sight.
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August 23, 2025

Former Yahoo Music Executive on Crypto's Inevitable Centralization Points with Ian Rogers

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Value is a Function of Time:** Bitcoin's greatest asset is its 15-year track record. Lasting value isn't about technology alone; it's about a powerful story that withstands the test of time, creating an insulated brand.
  2. **Self-Custody is the Premise:** The entire value proposition of crypto hinges on eliminating counterparty risk. Compromising on self-custody and security for the sake of convenience is a recurring mistake that "always blows up."
  3. **Adoption Will Be Abstracted:** The future of crypto for the masses is one where the complexity is hidden. Centralized user experiences will run on decentralized rails, delivering the benefits of crypto (lower fees, faster settlement) without the unforgiving user experience.
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August 22, 2025

Making $5M in Unconventional Trades w/ 0xLaw

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stop Gambling, Start Engineering.** The biggest edge isn’t in predicting price but in finding and exploiting structural market inefficiencies. Focus on trades where you can control or heavily influence the outcome, like RFV plays or creating self-fulfilling prophecies in prediction markets.
  2. **Become the Casino.** The crypto market is filled with speculation. By providing liquidity, farming yields, and taking the other side of gamblers (e.g., selling Pendle PTs), you can generate consistent, lower-risk returns. Farmers, on average, outperform directional traders over the long term.
  3. **Alpha Lives in the Weeds.** The most significant opportunities aren’t on the front page of Twitter. They’re buried in obscure Discord servers, complex protocol mechanics (like Aerodrome’s bribes), and emerging platforms with low capital efficiency like Polymarket.
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August 22, 2025

Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev Claps Back: From Memecoins to Real Assets – The Chopping Block

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Private Markets Are the New Public: The real unlock for tokenization isn't just 24/7 stock trading—it's bringing high-growth private companies to retail investors, with or without the company's blessing.
  2. The Great Convergence Is Here: The line between a crypto exchange and a stock brokerage is disappearing. Robinhood and its competitors are converging on a single "financial super app" model where all assets live in one place.
  3. Regulation Has Created a Paradox: The current system allows unlimited speculation on assets with zero fundamental value (memecoins) but blocks access to premier private equity. Robinhood is betting this logic won't hold.
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