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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 22, 2025

Making $5M in Unconventional Trades w/ 0xLaw

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stop Gambling, Start Engineering.** The biggest edge isn’t in predicting price but in finding and exploiting structural market inefficiencies. Focus on trades where you can control or heavily influence the outcome, like RFV plays or creating self-fulfilling prophecies in prediction markets.
  2. **Become the Casino.** The crypto market is filled with speculation. By providing liquidity, farming yields, and taking the other side of gamblers (e.g., selling Pendle PTs), you can generate consistent, lower-risk returns. Farmers, on average, outperform directional traders over the long term.
  3. **Alpha Lives in the Weeds.** The most significant opportunities aren’t on the front page of Twitter. They’re buried in obscure Discord servers, complex protocol mechanics (like Aerodrome’s bribes), and emerging platforms with low capital efficiency like Polymarket.
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August 22, 2025

Robinhood’s Vlad Tenev Claps Back: From Memecoins to Real Assets – The Chopping Block

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Private Markets Are the New Public: The real unlock for tokenization isn't just 24/7 stock trading—it's bringing high-growth private companies to retail investors, with or without the company's blessing.
  2. The Great Convergence Is Here: The line between a crypto exchange and a stock brokerage is disappearing. Robinhood and its competitors are converging on a single "financial super app" model where all assets live in one place.
  3. Regulation Has Created a Paradox: The current system allows unlimited speculation on assets with zero fundamental value (memecoins) but blocks access to premier private equity. Robinhood is betting this logic won't hold.
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August 22, 2025

Bittensor Brief #5: $TAO = The Early Internet?

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace the Friction: The current difficulty of investing in Bittensor subnets is a feature, not a bug. It’s the moat that has suppressed valuations, creating an opportunity akin to buying Bitcoin on Mt. Gox before Coinbase existed.
  2. A 3-6 Month Catalyst Window: The development of bridges and institutional infrastructure is the primary catalyst. This window represents the final moments to gain exposure before capital can flow in easily, likely re-rating the entire ecosystem.
  3. Think Startups, Not Just Tokens: Evaluate subnets like early-stage companies. Use resources like the *Revenue Search* podcast to analyze financials and projects like Shush (AI inference), Score (AI vision), and Quantum (public quantum computing) as real, venture-style bets.
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August 21, 2025

Bear or Bull Market? Institutions Are Buying The Dip! Crypto Markets Explained

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Don't Panic Sell.** The current market dip is a sign of a healthy "wall of worry," not a cycle top. Historical on-chain indicators show there is significant room to run.
  2. **Follow the Smart Money.** Institutions are aggressively buying this dip. The real capital from pensions and sovereign wealth funds is still on the sidelines, waiting to enter.
  3. **The Fed is Turning Bullish.** A key Federal Reserve official is now openly advocating for crypto adoption within the regulatory apparatus, signaling a major long-term shift in the US.
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August 20, 2025

The Fed Isn’t in Charge of the Dollar. The Eurodollar System Is.

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Dollar Isn't Being Debased; It's Deflationary.** The market is not pricing in inflation or debasement. Instead, key indicators like the interest rate swap market are emphatically signaling a future of much lower interest rates for much longer, which is characteristic of deflationary pressure and a strong dollar.
  2. **Asset Booms Are a Symptom, Not a Solution.** Rising stock and crypto prices are not evidence of a healthy economy or money printing. They reflect a K-shaped recovery where capital flees into financial assets as a hedge against systemic fragility, while the real economy for labor remains stagnant.
  3. **The Contrarian Play Is Long Bonds.** If the global system is starved for safe, liquid collateral and headed toward a deflationary recession, the best-performing assets will be long-duration U.S. Treasuries. Snyder’s advice is the polar opposite of the typical crypto portfolio: be long bonds.
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August 20, 2025

Crypto Credit Markets Will Rewrite Risk Management | David Grider

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Alpha Is Now Risk Management:** In a maturing crypto market, outperformance comes from actively managing gross exposure and utilizing a diverse strategy mix (equities, credit, derivatives), not just holding beta.
  2. **Crypto Credit Offers Unprecedented Asymmetry:** Instruments like convertible bonds on DATs provide credit-like downside protection while retaining crypto-like upside, creating a compelling opportunity for risk-adjusted returns that is often cheaper than replicating with native options.
  3. **The DAT Playbook Is Evolving:** The next cycle’s drama won't just be about token prices. Watch for DATs using leverage, building out their own "yield curves," and the eventual distressed cycle where activists and acquirers step in to capture NAV discounts.
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