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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

June 17, 2025

Solana ETFs Are Coming With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Solana ETFs are knocking on the door**, potentially armed with staking yield and a clearer TradFi narrative than their Ethereum counterparts.
  2. **The DEX arena is a battlefield**: CLOBs on specialized infrastructure are rising, challenging AMMs and reshaping liquidity for everything from blue-chips to memecoins.
  3. **Stablecoins are crypto's killer app going mainstream**, with Circle's IPO firing the starting gun for broader investor participation and a new wave of competition.
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June 17, 2025

How to Actually Grow on Crypto Twitter in 2025

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Authenticity Over Algorithms: Ditch the generic social media playbook; your genuine interest in a specific crypto niche is your most potent growth tool.
  2. Niche Down to Blow Up: Become the go-to source for your specific passion (e.g., memecoins, DeFi protocols) by sharing your unique process and insights.
  3. The Audience Knows: Users can "sniff out" disingenuous content. Real interest and transparent sharing build trust and attract a loyal following.
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June 16, 2025

The State Of Crypto Derivatives

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Risk Re-Priced**: Post-2022, understanding and mitigating counterparty and correlated risk is paramount; high returns often masked these dangers.
  2. **TradFi Rails Accelerate Crypto**: Publicly traded vehicles and ETFs are becoming key on-ramps, channeling traditional capital into crypto and reshaping market dynamics, notably compressing volatility.
  3. **Fundamental & On-Chain Focus**: Durable value (on-chain credit, strong L1s like Solana, revenue-generating protocols) and innovative on-chain derivatives platforms (like Hyperliquid) are prime areas of growth and investor interest.
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June 16, 2025

How to Value L1s?

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. App Revenue as a Current Yardstick: For now, L1 "GDP" (market cap / app revenue) offers a more stable cross-chain valuation tool than direct fees, providing an "apples-to-apples" comparison.
  2. The Inevitable Value Shift: Expect a future where applications, not L1s, capture the lion's share of value, as app take rates and business models mature. L1 valuations may compress as app valuations expand.
  3. L1s Must Innovate to Retain Value: Blockchains like Solana are actively strategizing (e.g., application-specific sequencing) to keep successful apps within their ecosystems, highlighting the growing pressure on L1s to prove their enduring value proposition beyond basic infrastructure.
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June 15, 2025

VCs Weigh In On Crypto Treasury Companies

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Treasury Strategies: High-Risk, Short-Term Plays: These vehicles are built for quick flips, not lasting value, with a high chance of premiums vanishing and values dropping below NAV.
  2. Beware the "Mania": The proliferation of treasury vehicles with increasingly lax terms signals a speculative fever; MicroStrategy is an outlier, not the rule.
  3. VCs Bet on Endurance: True crypto investing, from a venture perspective, demands patience and a focus on fundamental, long-term growth, distinct from chasing fleeting treasury premiums.
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June 14, 2025

The Next Crypto Companies To IPO

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Scale is King:** Sub-$3 billion valuation companies will struggle for analyst attention and institutional investment post-IPO.
  2. **SaaS Sells:** Crypto firms with predictable, recurring revenue (like Fireblocks, Chainalysis) have a stronger IPO narrative than those riding crypto price waves.
  3. **Trust is Currency:** For select businesses like Anchorage, an IPO isn't just about capital; it’s a strategic move to bolster their fundamental value proposition—trust.
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