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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 17, 2025

How To Position In A "Slowdown" Regime | Market Radar

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Strategic Implication:** The market's current "slowdown regime" demands caution. Avoid highly leveraged directional bets in traditional risk assets.
  2. **Builder/Investor Note:** Simplistic macro models and headline-driven narratives are failing. Focus on robust, multi-factor systematic approaches to identify true signal from noise.
  3. **The "So What?":** The Fed's political constraints on inflation mean a return to 2% without a recession is unlikely, potentially keeping inflation between 2-3% and supporting real assets, but with continued volatility.
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December 17, 2025

Lark Davis: The Bull & Bear Thesis for Digital Assets

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Concentration is Key: Ruthlessly prune portfolios, focusing on assets with clear utility, user adoption, and robust value accrual mechanisms.
  2. Build for Revenue: For builders, design tokenomics that directly reward token holders with revenue or buybacks, moving beyond abstract governance.
  3. Macro Over Cycle: The Fed's liquidity injections and potential rate cuts could override historical crypto cycles, creating a unique market environment for the next 6-12 months.
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December 17, 2025

Aave Defeats SEC, Token vs. Equity, Lark Davis, Dynamix, Threshold

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The market is bifurcating. Institutional capital is flowing into Bitcoin and tokenized RWAs, while many altcoins face a reckoning over their lack of clear value accrual.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Builders must design tokens with explicit economic rights or revenue share. Investors should concentrate on assets with strong fundamentals and institutional tailwinds, adopting a pragmatic, long-term view.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will see continued institutional integration, potentially overriding traditional crypto cycles due to stimulative monetary policy. Focus on infrastructure that bridges TradFi and crypto, and solutions addressing AI's insatiable energy demand.
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December 17, 2025

Why I’m Shorting $1M of ETH (Again)

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH's current price is likely a function of finite, incentive-driven institutional buying, not organic demand. A significant price correction is probable once this buying pressure subsides, particularly around the January 15th date.
  2. Investors should consider shorting ETH or accumulating cash to prepare for potential market lows. Builders should focus on clear value accrual mechanisms for their own tokens or equity, rather than assuming automatic uplift from underlying infrastructure.
  3. The market is shifting from euphoria to a more rational assessment of value. Understanding the difference between technological utility and asset investment potential is critical for navigating the next 6-12 months.
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December 16, 2025

How Crypto Networks Are Racing to Be the TradFi Chain - Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The "Empire Strikes Back" is real, with TradFi giants building their own tokenized solutions and specialized chains, intensifying competition for public blockchains.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on infrastructure and applications that enable seamless movement of tokenized "money" between specialized chains. This interoperability is crucial for unlocking capital efficiency.
  3. The "So What?": Despite current market rotation into "value" assets, the long-term trend of institutional tokenization is accelerating. Regulatory clarity in the US will act as a significant accelerant, but competitive forces are already driving adoption.
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December 17, 2025

Robinhood’s Onchain Strategy

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Onchain Convergence: Expect more traditional finance players to build on Ethereum L2s, prioritizing security and customizability while abstracting crypto's technical layers.
  2. Tokenization's Reach: The tokenization of private equity and real-world assets will expand, democratizing access and potentially disrupting traditional fundraising and ownership models.
  3. Product-First Crypto: Builders must prioritize user experience and product utility over underlying blockchain mechanics to drive mainstream adoption in the next 6-12 months.
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