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AI Podcasts

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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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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Crypto Podcasts

December 14, 2025

Be Careful With Your Taxes If You Have Crypto ETFs: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Proactive Tax Planning: Engage in tax loss harvesting now, leveraging the current wash sale exemption (with economic substance).
  2. Meticulous Record Keeping: The 1099-DA will be incomplete. Investors must maintain robust personal records for all crypto activity, especially for ETPs and DeFi.
  3. Software Opportunity: The complexity creates a massive market for sophisticated crypto tax software that can aggregate data and reconcile discrepancies.
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December 15, 2025

Fundamentals Are The New King of Crypto | Smac & Noah Goldberg

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: Crypto is moving past its "everything is beta" phase. Expect greater dispersion in asset performance, rewarding fundamental analysis over broad market exposure.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on projects with clear paths to productivity, durable advantages, and strong, substance-backed narratives. Opportunities exist in fixing token market inefficiencies and integrating crypto into existing consumer distribution channels.
  3. The "So What?": The market demands a more sophisticated approach. Investors and builders who can identify and execute on real-world value creation, rather than relying on hype cycles, will capture the most significant returns in the next 6-12 months.
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December 14, 2025

Teng Yan: How To Capitalize on The Biggest AI Bubble Ever (...And Who's Winning Already)

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Compute is King (for now): The race for compute and data center capacity will intensify until the fundamental scaling laws of AI hit a wall.
  2. Agents are Coming, with Caveats: Expect significant agentic progress in 2026, but real-world, fully autonomous agents require breakthroughs in reliability and new human-computer interaction data.
  3. Privacy as a Differentiator: Decentralized AI offering true data privacy will become a critical value proposition as centralized platforms inevitably monetize user data.
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August 14, 2025

My $1,000,000 Crypto Playbook, Revealed

blocmates.

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The market is a casino. Success hinges on understanding market cycles, personal psychology, and the art of strategic entry and exit, not blind loyalty.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Prioritize identifying early narratives and catalysts. For smaller capital, focus on "grind drops" over TVL-based airdrops to maintain liquidity.
  3. The "So What?": In the next 6-12 months, expect continued volatility. The ability to adapt strategies between "easy" and "hard" market modes, coupled with disciplined profit-taking, will define success.
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December 14, 2025

The Hidden Cost of Zero-Fee DEX's

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: The Perp DEX market is maturing beyond raw volume. Sustainable competitive advantages will come from transparent economics, innovative collateral, and robust on-chain security.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on projects solving the retail onboarding problem and those building sophisticated, yield-bearing, or cross-asset collateral systems with sound liquidation mechanics.
  3. The "So What?": Expect market consolidation over the next 5 years, with a handful of dominant Perp DEXs emerging, mirroring the CeFi landscape. Innovation in core primitives, not just new markets, will define the winners.
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December 12, 2025

Rate Cuts! ETH’s Comeback? & All Markets Going Onchain?

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH is positioned for a potential resurgence fueled by technological advancements, institutional investment, and a shift in market sentiment away from solely favoring Solana, mimicking Bitcoin’s rise in the 2021 cycle.
  2. ZK technology is fundamentally changing the Layer 2 landscape, unifying liquidity and enabling seamless interaction with Layer 1, which may lead to standardized infrastructure and increased institutional adoption.
  3. Regulatory winds are shifting, with agencies embracing crypto, banks legitimizing Bitcoin as collateral, and the potential passage of the Clarity Act paving the way for Wall Street's tokenization efforts.
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