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AI Podcasts

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 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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December 5, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 147 - @dippy_ai $TAO Subnet 11

Hash Rate Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Experiential AI is exploding. User-driven interactive experiences are the future of entertainment and will rival traditional media consumption.
  2. BitTensor is now a competitive platform. The integration of subnets like Targon for inference showcases real-world enterprise use cases and cost-effective solutions, providing a compelling alternative to centralized providers.
  3. Community-Driven AI: User-generated content and interactive AI companions are creating new forms of social connection and entertainment, particularly for younger demographics.
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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 4, 2025

Real On-Chain Agents? How Talus Solves What Crypto-AI Got Wrong

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. On-Chain Execution is Crucial: True crypto AI requires AI agents that operate entirely on-chain to maintain decentralization, verifiability, and auditability.
  2. Monetization is Key: For sustainable AI adoption, clear and viable business models are essential to drive value back to the creators and incentivize participation.
  3. Entertainment as a Catalyst: Leveraging entertainment through agent-versus-agent competitions can drive adoption and demonstrate the earning potential of AI agents, fostering a new AI entertainment economy.
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December 3, 2025

A Rosetta Stone for AI Benchmarks

Epoch AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Current AI benchmarks are limited due to rapid saturation. The presented statistical framework addresses this by stitching together multiple benchmarks to provide a more comprehensive evaluation.
  2. The framework enables the tracking of model capabilities over time, offering insights into algorithmic improvements and forecasting potential AI advancements.
  3. Software improvements are rapidly accelerating AI development, requiring significantly fewer computational resources each year to achieve the same level of capability.
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December 1, 2025

The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Measure Usage, Not Just Spend. The biggest failure in enterprise AI is tracking software purchases as a proxy for progress. The focus must shift to measuring actual tool usage correlated with output.
  2. Solve for Fear, Not Features. Employee adoption hinges on psychological safety. The most powerful tools will fail if users are afraid of looking incompetent or getting fired for making a mistake.
  3. Competition Drives Augmentation, Not Unemployment. The "AI will take our jobs" narrative is a red herring. Companies will reinvest AI-driven productivity gains to crush competitors, not just to cut headcount.
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November 28, 2025

How OpenAI Builds for 800 Million Weekly Users: Model Specialization and Fine-Tuning

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The "One Model" Thesis Is Dead.** The future belongs to a portfolio of specialized models. This creates distinct opportunities for both foundational labs and companies that can leverage proprietary data to build best-in-class models for niche applications.
  2. **Data Is the Ultimate Differentiator.** Reinforcement learning fine-tuning elevates proprietary data from a simple input for RAG systems to the core ingredient for building a defensible, state-of-the-art product.
  3. **Agents Will Specialize.** The agent ecosystem is bifurcating into two primary types: open-ended, creative agents for knowledge work and deterministic, procedural agents designed for enterprise automation where reliability and adherence to standard operating procedures are critical.
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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 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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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 13, 2025

Why This Token Launch Is Different

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Community First: Prioritizing the community through token allocation and buybacks fosters a stronger, more engaged user base from the outset.
  2. Utility Over Hype: Launching with immediate, tangible utility drives genuine adoption and long-term value creation.
  3. Ecosystem Growth: Continuously expanding the ecosystem with new features and integrations ensures sustained relevance and attracts a broader audience.
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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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December 11, 2025

Maciej Kula: Bittensor Halvings, Chain Buys, TaoFlow, Latent Holdings, LearnBittensor | Ep. 76

Ventura Labs

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Focus on understanding the fundamentals of incentive mechanisms, not just surface-level information, to adapt to Bittensor's frequent changes.
  2. Proxy wallets will enhance security by allowing users to isolate activities and protect their primary wallets.
  3. Monitor subnet inflows to understand the impact of TaoFlow and identify potential opportunities or risks.
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