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AI Podcasts

July 26, 2025

Intelligence = Doing More with Less (David Krakauer)

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Redefine Your Metrics. Judge intelligence not by what a system knows, but by its resourcefulness—its ability to solve novel problems with minimal information.
  2. Demand Deeper Proof. Don't accept claims of "emergence" based on performance charts. Look for evidence of a representational phase shift—a simpler, more abstract model of the world forming inside the machine.
  3. Think for Yourself. Resist the powerful urge to outsource your thinking to AI. Actively using your cognitive "muscles" is the only defense against the atrophy that convenience culture promotes.
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July 26, 2025

Bittensor Brief #2: VoidAI Wrapped TAO & Subnet Tokens

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Arbitrage Unlocked: The bridge exposes deeply undervalued Bittensor subnet tokens to the Solana ecosystem, creating a direct pathway to capture the 100x-1000x valuation gap between on-chain and off-chain AI projects.
  2. Incentivized Liquidity: Don’t be deterred by low initial liquidity. VoidAI's Subnet 106 is purpose-built to reward liquidity providers, creating a powerful economic engine designed to bootstrap and sustain deep markets for wrapped Bittensor assets.
  3. AI Meets DeFi: Wrapped TAO and subnet tokens can now be plugged into any Solana DeFi protocol. This opens a new frontier for financial products, allowing users to lend, borrow, and build derivatives on top of assets powered by a decentralized machine intelligence network.
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July 25, 2025

Bittensor Novelty Search :: Subnet 62 Ridges :: Open-Source AI

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Incentives Outpace Centralized R&D.** Ridges proves that a transparent, competitive market can drive faster innovation than a closed-door lab. The "winner-takes-all" model forces rapid, compounding improvements that are immediately absorbed by the entire network.
  2. **Bittensor's Economic Flywheel is Real.** Ridges is a prime example of subnet composability, creating a powerful economic moat. By using other subnets for cheap inference, it builds a product with R&D and operational costs orders of magnitude lower than competitors.
  3. **The Future is Abstracted.** The plan to onboard developers via Google/Plaid logins with a 30% fee is a brilliant Trojan horse. It lowers the barrier to entry for top talent while creating a powerful, built-in incentive for them to dive deeper into the crypto ecosystem to maximize earnings.
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July 23, 2025

The U.S. Can’t Build AI Without These Materials

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Mining is a software problem. The biggest gains aren't just in new drilling tech, but in using AI to optimize complex, thousand-variable refining processes and automate construction, slashing project timelines from years to months.
  2. Vertical integration is non-negotiable. Selling point solutions to "calcified" incumbents is a dead end. To capture efficiency gains, a company must own the entire process from mine to metal, internalizing risk and innovation.
  3. Government’s biggest lever is buying. To unlock trillions in private capital for this critical sector, the government must act as a reliable customer, providing offtake agreements and price floors that de-risk projects in a volatile commodity market.
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July 22, 2025

Live Demo & Review of the Newest AI Browsers: Dia vs Comet

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Comet is the agent, Dia is the assistant. Comet acts on your behalf across your digital life (scheduling, buying, emailing), while Dia excels as a hyper-competent assistant for automating complex research and content creation.
  2. The killer app is integration, not just chat. The browser that wins will be the one that most seamlessly orchestrates a user's entire digital ecosystem. Comet’s ability to connect and push tasks to core apps gives it the current edge.
  3. The sleeping giants are waking up. With vast user data and powerful proprietary models, Google and OpenAI’s eventual entry into the agentic browser market will be the next major catalyst, likely redefining the competitive landscape.
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July 21, 2025

Pushing compute to the limits of physics

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hardware is the New Frontier. The scaling race isn't about building more data centers for the same old chips. The next 1000x improvement will come from a fundamental paradigm shift that works with physics, not against it.
  2. Noise is a Feature, Not a Bug. The future of efficient computing lies in harnessing stochasticity. The "noise" we spend billions to suppress in classical chips is the very resource that can power probabilistic AI models with unparalleled efficiency.
  3. Prepare for an Algorithmic Renaissance. The dominance of Transformers is a temporary state dictated by current hardware. As thermodynamic computers become available, developers and researchers should dust off their probabilistic ML textbooks—the algorithms of tomorrow will look very different.
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July 21, 2025

José Macedo and Pondering Durian: The Birth of Delphi Intelligence

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Invest in AI's Tailwinds: The essential question for any AI investment is: "Does this business get better as foundation models improve?" Companies fighting against the current of AI's scaling laws are on the wrong side of a powerful trade.
  2. The "Mag 7" Will Expand, Not Just Turn Over: AI is not a zero-sum game for incumbents. The total addressable market is set to 10x as AI drives labor costs toward zero, creating room for a "Mag 25" and turning today's $500B companies into tomorrow's $5T behemoths.
  3. Private Market Alpha Exists, But Edge is Paramount: The private AI market cap is a mere ~$700B, signaling massive growth potential. However, like in crypto, investors must be paranoid about their "edge," as the best deals require deep ecosystem access to avoid negative selection.
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July 21, 2025

The Future of Software Development - Vibe Coding, Prompt Engineering & AI Assistants

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **AI Isn't a Feature; It's a New Infrastructure Primitive.** For the first time, developers are outsourcing logic, not just resources. This fundamentally changes how software is built, valued, and sold.
  2. **Abandon Zero-Sum Thinking.** The AI market is in a massive expansion phase, not a consolidation battle. Value is accruing at every layer of the stack simultaneously; assuming one layer's gain is another's loss is a flawed thesis.
  3. **The Future is More Developers, Not Fewer.** AI tools augment productivity and lower the barrier to entry. This elevates the developer's role to focus on product design and workflow definition—the *real* hard problem in software.
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July 20, 2025

Hash Rate - Brief #1 - Chutes

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **A Killer Value Prop:** Chutes makes deploying powerful AI models 85% cheaper and as easy as building a website on Squarespace.
  2. **The Investor's Dilemma:** While all revenue is used to buy back the Chutes alpha token, this currently covers only 10% of the daily token emissions. The token's price stability is heavily dependent on external market demand outstripping this inflation.
  3. **Watch for Catalysts:** Two key events could dramatically increase buy pressure: the imminent launch of BitTensor subnet tokens on Solana and an anticipated wave of institutional capital from newly formed crypto hedge funds.
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Crypto Podcasts

August 4, 2025

Lightspeed Cross-Post: The State Of Solana With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways
  1. The Narrative Gap: Solana is shipping game-changing tech like Jito’s BAM, but it’s losing market momentum to Ethereum’s simpler, more digestible "digital treasury" narrative. This highlights a critical disconnect between engineering reality and market perception.
  2. BAM is an Ecosystem Reset: Jito’s BAM isn’t a simple patch; it's a foundational redesign of Solana's value pipeline. By internalizing MEV and enabling custom sequencing, it directly challenges the business model of SVM appchains and unlocks a new design space for DeFi on the L1.
  3. Decentralization is a Means, Not an End: The push for higher block limits signals a pragmatic shift. The ecosystem is increasingly willing to trade some degree of validator decentralization for the massive performance gains needed to onboard real-world finance, prioritizing the network's ultimate utility over ideological purity.
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August 4, 2025

The Bull Case For GLXY

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. A Sum-of-the-Parts Discount: The market is failing to properly value Galaxy’s three distinct segments. The existing data center deal with CoreWeave alone is arguably worth more than the current stock price, meaning investors get the robust crypto business and a multi-billion dollar balance sheet for free.
  2. Unmatched Credibility in AI Pivot: Galaxy’s multi-billion dollar balance sheet is its trump card. It provides the financial muscle and credibility to secure financing and execute massive data center projects, a feat cash-burning Bitcoin miners can only talk about.
  3. An Execution-Driven Rocket Ship: The current valuation offers a significant margin of safety. If management successfully executes the full buildout of Helios and secures new tenants for its massive power pipeline, the upside is astronomical.
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August 1, 2025

Inside Crypto’s Credit Revival With Sid Powell | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways
  1. The US is Back in the Game: The regulatory climate has shifted from a headwind to a tailwind. The new clarity allows builders to focus on product, not legal acrobatics, and gives institutions the green light to engage.
  2. Leverage is Transparent, Not Gone: The system is deleveraged, but more importantly, its risk profile has improved dramatically. Leverage now lives in safer, productized, and on-chain formats built on verifiable custody rather than handshake deals.
  3. Bitcoin is Becoming Core Collateral: Look beyond Bitcoin as just "digital gold." Its true institutional power is emerging as a pristine collateral asset, set to anchor a multi-hundred-billion-dollar lending market packaged for TradFi consumption.
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August 1, 2025

SEC Announces "Project Crypto." This Changes Everything.

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The On-Chain Mandate is Here. The SEC is no longer an obstacle but a proponent of moving U.S. capital markets onto blockchains. This signals a green light for builders and investors focused on tokenization and on-chain financial infrastructure.
  2. The "Pretend" Game is Over. With the SEC lead declaring "most tokens are not securities," the industry can move past the convoluted narratives used to avoid regulatory scrutiny. Projects can now be more direct about value accrual and business models.
  3. The Roman Storm Verdict is Crypto's Next Big Catalyst. The outcome of this trial will have profound implications. An acquittal would be a massive win for open-source developers and privacy, while a conviction could set a chilling precedent for years to come.
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July 30, 2025

How The U.S. Controls The Global Economy

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Crypto Is America's Counter-Offensive. The U.S. is betting on privately-issued, regulated stablecoins—not a government-backed digital dollar—to maintain its edge in global payments. This strategy mirrors how it co-opted the offshore Eurodollar market in the 1970s to expand the dollar’s influence.
  2. The Rise of Parallel Systems. The weaponization of the dollar is forcing countries like China to build their own financial infrastructure (e.g., the M-Bridge platform). This guarantees a future where nations have multiple payment networks to choose from, eroding the U.S.’s unique leverage.
  3. Sanctions Are Not a Free Lunch. While a powerful alternative to military conflict, economic sanctions must be used judiciously. Overusing them risks dulling their impact and ultimately dismantling the very system that grants the U.S. its power.
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July 30, 2025

Can ETH Outperform SOL In 2025?

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH's Narrative Is Its Near-Term Weapon. ETH's strength lies in a story simple enough for a "dumb banker": massive market cap, 80%+ stablecoin dominance, and the perceived success of its L2s. This makes it an easier buy for TradFi, even if the value accrual thesis is murky.
  2. Solana Is Playing The Long Game. Solana is betting that superior tech will ultimately win. Its focus isn't on the current TradFi narrative but on building the infrastructure for future "internet capital markets," a strategy that requires patience.
  3. Stablecoin Liquidity Is a Vanity Metric. Billions in stablecoins on platforms like Aave don't automatically translate to productive economic activity. The primary use case remains on-chain speculation, challenging the idea that massive liquidity is an end in itself.
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