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AI Podcasts

May 27, 2025

7 More Healthy Years: What We Can Learn from Super Agers

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace AI-Powered Prevention: AI's capacity to synthesize vast health data will redefine personalized risk assessment and early intervention, moving us beyond one-size-fits-all healthcare.
  2. Target the "Big Three" Early: Focus on preventing cancer, cardiovascular disease, and neurodegenerative conditions by leveraging their long incubation periods for proactive interventions.
  3. Leverage New Therapeutic Frontiers: Groundbreaking drug classes like GLP-1s and rapid advancements in immunotherapy offer unprecedented tools to combat and, crucially, prevent major diseases.
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May 27, 2025

TAOFU's Mikel & Mitch: Enabling Capital Formation for Subnets on Bittensors $10B+ Network

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Democratized Subnet Funding: TAOFU’s SNS model allows subnet creators to raise capital without diluting their core emission-earning potential, fostering more shots on goal for AI innovation on Bittensor.
  2. Investor Access & Liquidity: For investors, TAOFU provides a clear mechanism (SNS tokens and an integrated DEX) to invest in early-stage Bittensor subnets and gain liquidity, previously a closed-off and opaque process.
  3. Curated Quality: TAOFU’s permissioned approach and focus on sustainable value capture (with plans for a curator model) aim to filter for high-quality projects, protecting investors while nurturing promising AI ventures within Bittensor.
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May 26, 2025

Has AI Revived the DePIN Sector? | Dmitriy Berenzon

0xResearch

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI is DePIN's Demand Catalyst: The need for affordable AI compute is breathing new life and tangible demand into decentralized infrastructure.
  2. Value Accrual & Revenue are King: For DePIN tokens to thrive in liquid markets, clear mechanisms for value flow-through from opco revenue to the token are non-negotiable; "ARR is the new TVL."
  3. Distribution Trumps Decentralization (for now): Crypto-native solutions, especially in payments, must crack the distribution code or risk being outmaneuvered by Web2 incumbents leveraging their massive user bases.
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May 26, 2025

Chatbot platforms might replace social media

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI Companionship is Exploding: Millions are already deeply engaged with AI for emotional connection, and this is just the beginning as technology like GPT-4o normalizes it.
  2. Lean Engineering Can Win: Chai's success with a tiny, hyper-talented team and innovative techniques like model blending proves that massive VC-backed operations aren't the only path to scale in AI.
  3. The Next Social Platform Might Be AI: As AI offers more active, personalized, and consequence-free social interaction, it could very well become the dominant way people connect, potentially supplanting traditional social media.
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May 25, 2025

How Endless Debt Became America's Culture

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Debt is Destiny:** America's fiscal irresponsibility and cultural embrace of debt ensure ongoing money printing and inflation, making currency debasement a near certainty.
  2. **The One True Trade:** Forget complex analytics; the primary goal is preserving purchasing power. This means owning store-of-value assets like Bitcoin and gold, which are positioned to thrive.
  3. **AI Accelerates the Crisis:** Artificial intelligence will not only disrupt labor markets but also intensify the debt crisis by devaluing traditional education and fueling calls for more government relief.
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May 24, 2025

SN85 :: VIDAIO :: Decentralized AI Video Upscaling & Compression ++ Roadmap & Enterprise Utility

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Decentralized AI is Production-Ready: VIDAIO demonstrates that complex AI tasks like video processing can be effectively decentralized and optimized through BitTensor's subnet model, with miners already outperforming base models.
  2. Perceptual Quality Wins: Focusing on human-perceived video quality, rather than just raw specs, is key for AI video tools, leading to more efficient and visually appealing results.
  3. Subnets Must Aim for Self-Sufficiency: The long-term viability of BitTensor subnets hinges on generating real-world revenue and solving actual customer problems, moving beyond reliance on token emissions.
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May 24, 2025

Sovereign AI: Why Nations Are Building Their Own Models

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. National AI is Non-Negotiable: Countries are investing heavily in "AI factories" to control their digital destiny and cultural narratives.
  2. Models are Culture: AI outputs reflect embedded values, making local control over AI development and deployment a geopolitical imperative.
  3. Lead by Building Better: The US can maintain AI leadership by out-innovating competitors and enabling allies, pursuing "foundation model diplomacy" to ensure its technology underpins global progress.
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May 23, 2025

How Decentralized Data Marketplaces Could Reshape AI Forever

The People's AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Data is the New Asset Class: Vana is pioneering frameworks (like VRC20) to treat data as an ownable, tradable asset, potentially revolutionizing finance as much as property ownership once did.
  2. Market Makers Will Ignite Liquidity: The emergence of "data market makers" is projected to significantly enhance capital flow and price discovery in decentralized data marketplaces.
  3. From UBI to UDI: Instead of a Universal Basic Income, imagine a Universal Data Income where you’re paid for your unique data contributions that make AI more human and effective.
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May 23, 2025

Building AI Systems You Can Trust

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trust Trumps Tweaks: Stop chasing marginal performance gains if you haven't nailed reliability; the biggest barrier to AI value is a lack of confidence, not capability.
  2. Embrace Behavioral Intelligence: Shift from only evaluating final outputs to continuously testing the how and why of AI behavior across the entire system, especially for non-deterministic and non-stationary models.
  3. Platformize for Prudence: Enterprises must build or adopt centralized GenAI platforms with robust logging and testing to manage risk, ensure consistency, and provide developers with the tools to build trustworthy AI.
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Crypto Podcasts

May 19, 2025

Logan Allen: Nockchain's Global Competition for Useful ZK Proof of Work Miners Kicks Off

Delphi Digital

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ZKPoW is a Novel Force: Nockchain's ZK Proof of Work directly builds valuable ZK proving capacity, turning mining into a productive, network-enhancing activity.
  2. Hardware Revolution Looms: The mining competition will drive innovation in ZK-specific hardware (FPGAs, ASICs for polynomial math), creating a new hardware market distinct from Bitcoin's.
  3. Intent-Driven Future: Nockchain's architecture points towards a future of composable "micro-apps" and verifiable services, where on-chain logic focuses on proof verification, potentially enabling new decentralized AI/ML applications and "computational commodities."
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May 18, 2025

Weimar America: The Inflation Spiral Has Begun

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Fiscal Dominance is Here:** Government spending, not just Fed policy, is the primary driver of the current inflationary pressures and will likely lead to an 8% GDP deficit.
  2. **Prepare for Intervention:** Expect capital controls (like remittance taxes) and yield curve control as governments grapple with the consequences of their spending.
  3. **Store-of-Value is King:** In an environment where traditional savings (e.g., 4% on bonds) can't match 15% inflation in essential costs, assets like tech stocks and Bitcoin become non-negotiable for wealth preservation.
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May 17, 2025

The Fiscal Spiral Has No Off Switch | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Fiscal Doom Loop: The US is locked in a fiscal spiral of growing deficits and debt that it seems unwilling or unable to escape, making dollar debasement a significant long-term risk.
  2. Macro is King: Geopolitical trends, capital flows, and policy decisions (like buybacks and potential yield curve control) are now more critical drivers of asset prices than individual company fundamentals.
  3. Bitcoin's Ascent: In a world of "Ponzi schemes," Bitcoin stands out as a rational hedge and potentially the "generational trade" against failing monetary and fiscal policies.
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May 16, 2025

The Next Phase of the Bull Market | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Memecoin Rebound Signals Risk-On:** The sharp recovery in memecoins highlights the market's speculative appetite; treat them as high-octane, ecosystem-specific bets.
  2. **Strategic M&A is Reshaping Access:** Companies are buying their way into regulated markets and building out institutional-grade services, with "Crypto as a Service" set to grow.
  3. **Institutional Rails Getting Stronger:** Coinbase’s S&P 500 debut and EToro’s IPO are landmark events, cementing crypto's place in mainstream finance and improving market transparency.
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May 16, 2025

Markets Are EXPLODING - Here’s Why! ETH Surge, U.S. China Deal & What’s Next

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH is Back (For Now): ETH's dramatic surge signals renewed conviction, but its long-term trajectory against Bitcoin remains a key market question.
  2. Macro Drives All: The U.S.-China tariff pause and potential capital control strategies will significantly impact risk assets; Bitcoin and gold are positioned as key beneficiaries of dollar devaluation.
  3. Regulation is Turning Pro-Crypto: The SEC's pivot towards clear frameworks could finally unlock institutional adoption and the tokenization of real-world assets.
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May 15, 2025

Hivemind: ETH Pump, Solana’s Edge & the New Meme Meta

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH Rally = Fragile Foundation: ETH's recent pump is more a short-squeeze than broad institutional buy-in; treat with skepticism.
  2. Solana's Strategic Advantages: Solana benefits from innovation, discounted token acquisitions by strategic entities, and key infrastructure developments like asset-level KYC.
  3. Meme Meta Redux: The "Internet Capital Markets" on Solana offer high-risk, high-reward plays mirroring past speculative cycles; speed and early positioning are crucial.
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