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AI Podcasts

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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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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Crypto Podcasts

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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August 22, 2025

Bittensor Brief #5: $TAO = The Early Internet?

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace the Friction: The current difficulty of investing in Bittensor subnets is a feature, not a bug. It’s the moat that has suppressed valuations, creating an opportunity akin to buying Bitcoin on Mt. Gox before Coinbase existed.
  2. A 3-6 Month Catalyst Window: The development of bridges and institutional infrastructure is the primary catalyst. This window represents the final moments to gain exposure before capital can flow in easily, likely re-rating the entire ecosystem.
  3. Think Startups, Not Just Tokens: Evaluate subnets like early-stage companies. Use resources like the *Revenue Search* podcast to analyze financials and projects like Shush (AI inference), Score (AI vision), and Quantum (public quantum computing) as real, venture-style bets.
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August 21, 2025

Bear or Bull Market? Institutions Are Buying The Dip! Crypto Markets Explained

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Don't Panic Sell.** The current market dip is a sign of a healthy "wall of worry," not a cycle top. Historical on-chain indicators show there is significant room to run.
  2. **Follow the Smart Money.** Institutions are aggressively buying this dip. The real capital from pensions and sovereign wealth funds is still on the sidelines, waiting to enter.
  3. **The Fed is Turning Bullish.** A key Federal Reserve official is now openly advocating for crypto adoption within the regulatory apparatus, signaling a major long-term shift in the US.
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August 20, 2025

The Fed Isn’t in Charge of the Dollar. The Eurodollar System Is.

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Dollar Isn't Being Debased; It's Deflationary.** The market is not pricing in inflation or debasement. Instead, key indicators like the interest rate swap market are emphatically signaling a future of much lower interest rates for much longer, which is characteristic of deflationary pressure and a strong dollar.
  2. **Asset Booms Are a Symptom, Not a Solution.** Rising stock and crypto prices are not evidence of a healthy economy or money printing. They reflect a K-shaped recovery where capital flees into financial assets as a hedge against systemic fragility, while the real economy for labor remains stagnant.
  3. **The Contrarian Play Is Long Bonds.** If the global system is starved for safe, liquid collateral and headed toward a deflationary recession, the best-performing assets will be long-duration U.S. Treasuries. Snyder’s advice is the polar opposite of the typical crypto portfolio: be long bonds.
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August 20, 2025

Crypto Credit Markets Will Rewrite Risk Management | David Grider

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Alpha Is Now Risk Management:** In a maturing crypto market, outperformance comes from actively managing gross exposure and utilizing a diverse strategy mix (equities, credit, derivatives), not just holding beta.
  2. **Crypto Credit Offers Unprecedented Asymmetry:** Instruments like convertible bonds on DATs provide credit-like downside protection while retaining crypto-like upside, creating a compelling opportunity for risk-adjusted returns that is often cheaper than replicating with native options.
  3. **The DAT Playbook Is Evolving:** The next cycle’s drama won't just be about token prices. Watch for DATs using leverage, building out their own "yield curves," and the eventual distressed cycle where activists and acquirers step in to capture NAV discounts.
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