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AI Podcasts

March 20, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 101 - Bittensor Fund I: Investing in Subnets

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. The Bittensor subnet ecosystem offers potentially asymmetric investment opportunities, similar to early Ethereum or DeFi Summer.
  • 2. Simplified user interfaces and cross-chain bridges are crucial for attracting mainstream capital.
  • 3. The convergence of new capital, increasing subnet adoption, and the rise of decentralized AI position Bittensor for potentially explosive growth.
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March 19, 2025

Illia Polosukhin on The Upcoming Explosion of User-Owned AI

The Rollup

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. User-owned AI offers a powerful alternative to centralized models, prioritizing user control, data privacy, and personalized experiences.
  • 2. Near Protocol is building the necessary infrastructure and protocols to support the development, deployment, and monetization of user-owned AI agents.
  • 3. The future of AI and crypto will see the rise of useful agents that can perform real-world tasks, creating new opportunities for developers and users alike.
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March 19, 2025

npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Cloudflare is leveraging its existing Durable Objects technology to create a compelling platform for developing and deploying AI agents.
  • 2. The future of AI agents hinges on solving challenges related to trust, practical applications, and accessibility for non-technical users.
  • 3. Cloudflare Agents is poised to address these challenges by offering a robust, scalable platform with features like human-in-the-loop, scheduling, and future support for multi-agent communication and enhanced workflows.
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March 18, 2025

The Gap Between Humans and Machines Is ___

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Robustness, not just accuracy, is crucial for LLMs to gain trust and widespread adoption.
  • 2. Human feedback should be used strategically and granularly to mitigate biases and optimize model behavior effectively.
  • 3. Dynamic, evolving benchmarks tailored to specific tasks are necessary to truly evaluate the evolving capabilities of increasingly sophisticated AI systems.
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March 15, 2025

Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI

a16z

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. AI development requires balancing technical rigor with qualitative user feedback to create truly engaging experiences.
  • 2. The future of conversational AI lies in eliminating transcription, allowing direct audio processing for faster, more natural interactions.
  • 3. AI companions are poised to become a new computing interface, emphasizing natural, human-like interactions over traditional utility.
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March 14, 2025

Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Snipd is transforming podcast consumption by focusing on knowledge retention and learning through AI-enhanced features.
  • 2. The app's evolution reflects a shift from social sharing to a more personalized, learning-centric experience.
  • 3. Future developments include voice interfaces and AI-driven discovery, promising a more interactive and tailored user experience.
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March 13, 2025

[Lightning Pod] Evals: How to Improve AI Consistently — with Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Evals are essential for moving AI applications from demo to production, requiring systematic measurement and data literacy.
  • 2. Teaching evals involves hands-on, practical approaches to ensure understanding and application of stable, evergreen techniques.
  • 3. Custom data annotation tools and careful validation of LLMs as judges are crucial for effective evals.
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March 13, 2025

Vibecoding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online

a16z

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Vibecoding democratizes software development, enabling a broader range of users to create applications without traditional coding skills.
  • 2. The rapid growth of AI-powered tools highlights a significant demand for accessible software development solutions.
  • 3. Despite challenges, the potential for Vibecoding to transform how we build software is immense, with ongoing improvements expected to address current limitations.
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March 12, 2025

Maya Kannan: Geoeconomics, Economic Systems, AI Blockchain Governance, Innovation, Politics | Ep. 31

Ventura Labs

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Geoeconomics is reshaping global politics, requiring nations to align industries with strategic priorities.
  • 2. AI systems should be designed to learn from diverse environments, avoiding ideological biases.
  • 3. Consortium blockchains offer a path to decentralized governance, balancing private and public interests.
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Crypto Podcasts

December 18, 2025

Hivemind: Crypto Is Dead with Dougie DeLuca

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The industry's future lies in seamless integration with the broader economy, making blockchain an invisible, value-adding layer for everyday products.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on projects solving real problems, demonstrating product-market fit in proven sectors (stablecoins, perps, token issuance), and prioritizing user experience over maximalist decentralization.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will reward deep research and conviction in quality assets, as the market shifts from speculative narratives to tangible utility and real-world adoption.
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December 18, 2025

Why Gen Z Will Turn Everything Into a Market | Threadguy

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The lines between traditional finance, crypto, and cultural markets will blur. "Internet markets" will encompass everything, driven by attention and mimetics.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on platforms that facilitate permissionless market creation and enhance the "spectacle" of trading. User experience that feels as native as social media will capture Gen Z's capital.
  3. The "So What?": Crypto's open, liquid, and attention-driven nature makes it the ultimate infrastructure for this new financial paradigm. The next decade will see an explosion of internet asset trading, with crypto at its core.
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December 18, 2025

Solana's Biggest Opportunity In 2026 | Dan Smith

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: Solana's focus on PropAMMs and perpetuals is a foundational shift, positioning it as a global financial hub rather than just a speculative playground. This creates a more sustainable revenue model for the chain.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Builders should leverage Solana's market structure for innovative financial primitives. Investors must scrutinize tokenomics, especially the "two-asset model," and prioritize projects with transparent investor relations.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will see a significant increase in onchain trading sophistication and volume on Solana, driven by PropAMMs and the expansion into perpetuals. This will attract more institutional capital and solidify Solana's role in global finance.
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December 18, 2025

🟦 Base Eco & Coinbase System Update Mega Stream

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Market Bifurcation: The crypto market is splitting. Protocols with strong FinTech distribution partnerships (the "DeFi mullets") will outpace those relying solely on crypto-native power users.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Builders should prioritize Base App integration and AI-driven simplification. Investors should identify DeFi protocols securing these large-scale distribution deals and those building in tokenized RWAs and prediction markets.
  3. The "So What?": Coinbase's aggressive expansion into traditional assets, combined with Base App's creator-first, self-custodial "everything app" vision, signals a significant push for mainstream adoption. The next 6-12 months will see a race to onboard millions of new users and creators, fundamentally reshaping how we interact with finance and digital ownership.
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December 18, 2025

Solana’s Big Upgrade, Aave’s Civil War & the Problem With Token Value: Uneasy Money

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Clarity is King: The industry needs clearer, legally defensible definitions of token holder rights and revenue accrual to build trust and sustainable value.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Builders should prioritize explicit tokenomics and robust governance. Investors must scrutinize token rights beyond speculative narratives and be hyper-vigilant against social engineering scams.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will test which projects can evolve beyond ambiguous structures to deliver tangible value and accountability, separating sustainable innovation from speculative chaos.
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December 17, 2025

S3 Ep3_V1

The People's AI

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Evolving Human-AI Interaction:** Our relationship with AI, especially digital personas, will evolve rapidly. Society will develop "genre literacy" to understand and integrate these new forms of connection.
  2. **Builder/Investor Note:** Prioritize user agency in design. Implement "sunsets" for grief bots and avoid intrusive notifications. Invest in decentralized data solutions that empower individual control over digital legacy.
  3. **The "So What?":** Grief tech forces a philosophical reckoning. As digital personas become more sophisticated, the very definition of "death" and "being alive" will blur, creating unprecedented social, legal, and economic implications.
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