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AI Podcasts

January 12, 2026

OpenAI + @Temporalio : Building Durable, Production Ready Agents - Cornelia Davis, Temporal

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from "Agent as a Script" to "Agent as a Durable Service" where state management is handled by the infrastructure.
  2. Wrap your existing API tools in the `activity_as_tool` function to gain automatic retries and execution history.
  3. Reliability is the only moat in the agentic economy. If your agent cannot survive a server restart during a three-day task, it is not ready for the enterprise.
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January 13, 2026

How Ladder Became #1 Strength Training App

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The move from fragmented content libraries to integrated health systems where AI synthesizes biomarkers and movement.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Construct internal LLM tools to categorize qualitative feedback. This turns thousands of raw reviews into a precise roadmap.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building a $100M ARR consumer app requires mastery of both growth loops and product retention. Solve for the daily habit to win the long game.
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January 13, 2026

Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose AI to specialized application layers. As foundation models commoditize, value migrates to the "fat tail" of human-centric complexity.
  2. Prioritize building or investing in "DNA of the future" companies that incumbents must eventually acquire to survive. Focus on winning the "point of attack" by staying deep in the technical details.
  3. We are in a unique market where demand growth justifies high valuations. Success over the next year depends on identifying founders who are the absolute best in the world at one specific thing.
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January 13, 2026

It's Time To Build

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Infrastructure Invisibility. As core technologies become background noise, value moves from the pipes to the unique experiences built on top of them.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Reject Mediocrity. Audit your product for average features and replace them with high-conviction improvements that competitors are too lazy to attempt.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building is the only way to ensure the future happens. If you do not create the next version of reality, you are stuck living in an outdated vision.
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January 13, 2026

Nothing’s Carl Pei on Building a $1B Smartphone Company and Why He Thinks About Death Every Week

The Generalist

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from hardware specs to emotional hardware where brand identity and OS-native AI become the primary moats.
  2. Prioritize arbitrage opportunities in marketing by finding underpriced attention on platforms like TikTok before they become crowded.
  3. Success in mature markets requires a Genghis Khan method: be a talent scout, stay open-minded to global supply chains, and use design to win the emotional battle for the consumer's pocket.
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January 12, 2026

Nvidia CES 2026

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from centralized cloud training to distributed local inference creates a massive demand for high-bandwidth storage and custom CPUs.
  2. Audit your technical roadmap to prioritize local agentic workflows that reduce latency and data privacy risks.
  3. The next 12 months will favor hardware that enables physical AI and local autonomy. Owning the compute stack is becoming a competitive necessity for builders who want to move faster than the cloud allows.
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January 9, 2026

Spec-Driven Development: Sharpening your AI toolbox - Al Harris, Amazon Kiro

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from "vibe coding" to "spec-driven" engineering.
  2. Implement EARS-formatted requirements in your AI prompts.
  3. Determinism is the ultimate feature for AI-assisted development.
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January 8, 2026

Post-training best-in-class models in 2025

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Intelligence is decoupling from scale. As reasoning becomes a commodity, the value moves from the size of the model to the proprietary nature of the training data.
  2. Use TRL or Unsloth for single-GPU fine-tuning. Prioritize cleaning your instruction sets over increasing your training iterations.
  3. The future belongs to those who own their data pipelines. If you can distill elite reasoning into a 350M parameter model, you win on latency, cost, and privacy.
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January 8, 2026

Intelligent Robots in 2026: Are We There Yet? [Nikita Rudin] - 760

The TWIML AI Podcast with Sam Charrington

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Moving from Blind Locomotion to Semantic Navigation defines the next frontier.
  2. Prioritize modular architectures that use off-the-shelf VLMs for task orchestration.
  3. Expect the first value-positive humanoid deployments in late 2026.
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Crypto Podcasts

August 29, 2025

ETH Hits New ATH! Powell Hints at Rate Cuts & BTC Whales Rotate to ETH

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Fed's dovish turn is the primary market catalyst.** Powell's signals of impending rate cuts have injected massive optimism, driving ETH to a new all-time high and confirming that macro now dictates crypto's direction.
  2. **Capital is aggressively rotating from Bitcoin to Ether.** This classic cycle rotation, amplified by whale activity and trader expectations, is a self-fulfilling prophecy, positioning ETH as the next dominant asset to watch.
  3. **The Solana treasury narrative is the next frontier.** With the window closing for new Bitcoin and ETH treasury vehicles, a fierce competition is underway to establish the dominant, "Saylor-like" figurehead for Solana, creating a new focal point for institutional capital.
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August 29, 2025

NFTs As Top Signals

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Track NFT Blue-Chips as a Signal.** The price action of collections like CryptoPunks acts as a potent gauge for the "wealth effect" and overall risk appetite within the crypto ecosystem. Their peaks often correlate with broader market tops.
  2. **Separate Collecting from Investing.** Frame high-end NFT acquisitions as an "expense" for art you genuinely love, not a financial investment. This strategy decouples your emotional well-being from market volatility.
  3. **Embrace Your Top-Signal Buys.** An expensive purchase at a market peak isn't just a loss; it's a powerful lesson in humility. Use it as a constant reminder that no one is immune to market psychology.
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August 27, 2025

How to Make it This Cycle w/ CryptoMessi

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ditch the Rotator Playbook. This isn't 2021. Stop chasing every pump. Success this cycle requires picking a few narratives, believing in them, and holding with conviction.
  2. Make On-Chain Money Real. Stablecoins encourage bad habits. Cash out profits to a real bank account to create a psychological barrier against recklessly aping your gains back into the market.
  3. Plan for Post-Win Depression. The dopamine crash after a massive score is inevitable. Resist the urge to chase that high; prioritize building sustainable, real-world income instead of buying status symbols.
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August 27, 2025

Trump’s Tariffs Could Stall Growth Before 2026 Surge | Alfonso Peccatiello

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. A Politicized Fed is the Baseline. Assume the Federal Reserve will be pressured to cut rates to neutral (~3%) by 2026, creating an unusually loose policy backdrop relative to strong nominal growth.
  2. Mind the Fiscal Cliff, Then the Rocket Ship. Brace for a temporary growth slowdown as tariffs bite over the next few months, but prepare for a sharp re-acceleration in 2026 if and when new stimulus kicks in.
  3. Ditch Old Hedges, Buy Protest Assets. Your portfolio's traditional diversifiers (long bonds, USD) are broken. Shift allocation toward assets that benefit from inflation risk and high nominal growth: commodities, crypto, and undervalued international equities.
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August 26, 2025

Ep 46 — How to Turn a Dying NFT Collection into a $50M Cultural Empire in Web3 ft. Luca Netz

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Valuation is Evolving.** The most durable crypto projects will be judged not on tokenomics alone, but on a triad of community strength (Ecosystem), marketing reach (Attention), and real-world cash flow (Revenue).
  2. **Centralization Wins the Consumer.** The next billion users will not navigate a dozen dApps. They will be onboarded through simplified, centralized super-apps that provide a seamless and curated on-chain experience.
  3. **Reward Loyalty, Not Speculation.** Sustainable value is built by aligning with true believers. Founders should design mechanisms that reward long-term holders and actively discourage "farm-and-dump" behavior.
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August 26, 2025

Why I Sold Some Crypto & Prediction Markets Alpha

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Re-evaluate Risk/Reward. With majors like Ethereum potentially offering symmetrical 50% upside vs. 50% downside, the rationale for holding heavy, levered positions weakens. It's time to take some chips off the table.
  2. Explore Prediction Markets. This sector offers a fresh frontier for alpha. Get active on Polymarket, farm the Limitless airdrop on Base (min. $200 bet), and join Outcome’s risk-free testnet competition to get exposure.
  3. Build a Defensive Core. Adopt assets like JLP on Solana as a portfolio cornerstone. It provides market exposure while protecting capital through its diversified pool and fees generated from retail traders, outperforming most crypto assets in a downturn.
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