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AI Podcasts

June 14, 2025

The Unwinding Of The Global U.S Dollar Trade | Weekly Roundup

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The U.S. Dollar's Dominance is Fraying: Decades of capital recycling into U.S. assets may reverse, boosting non-U.S. markets, gold, and Bitcoin while pressuring the dollar.
  2. AI is the New Geopolitical Battleground: The U.S.-China AI race will likely drive continued market support and investment into related infrastructure like nuclear and space tech.
  3. "Ponzanomics" Prevails: Expect continued fiscal expansion and market interventions (like Treasury buybacks) globally as governments prioritize economic stability and strategic goals over austerity.
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June 13, 2025

Gareth Howells: Bittensor Video Upscaling & Compression, VOD, AI, Crypto, Subnet 85 Vidaio | Ep. 48

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Compression is Cash: Vidaio’s bespoke AI compression offers enterprises 50%+ savings on video storage/bandwidth without sacrificing visual quality, targeting the 80% of internet traffic that is video.
  2. Bittensor’s Velocity: The decentralized Bittensor network acts as a powerful R&D engine, enabling Vidaio to out-innovate and outpace traditional development, turning concepts into market-ready solutions in months, not years.
  3. Token Tied to Utility: The success of Vidaio's alpha token hinges on securing enterprise clients and reinvesting revenues, making its value a direct reflection of its real-world utility and market penetration.
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June 13, 2025

Why the Robotics Revolution will be Powered by Decentralized AI, w/ the Founder of PrismaX

The People's AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hardware Isn't the Holdup: Robot bodies are capable; their brains (AI) need smarter, real-world training.
  2. Data is the New Differentiator: Access to diverse, large-scale, real-world interaction data will determine the winners in robotics AI.
  3. Decentralization Unlocks Scale: PrismaX bets that a community-driven approach to data collection and teleoperation can overcome the biases and bottlenecks of centralized efforts, fueling the next wave of robotic intelligence.
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June 13, 2025

What You Missed in AI This Week (Google, Apple, ChatGPT)

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI is rapidly democratizing sophisticated content creation and enabling entirely new business models. The speed of innovation is intense, making it both an exciting and "exhausting" time for creatives and builders.
  2. Video & Voice Converge: AI is now generating synchronized audio-visual content from simple text prompts, opening a Pandora's box for storytellers and "faceless" creators.
  3. Consumer AI Pays: Startups in consumer AI are scaling revenue at unprecedented rates, proving users will pay premium subscriptions for powerful, AI-native experiences.
  4. AI-Assisted Entrepreneurship: The barrier to launching a brand or product is crumbling, as AI tools empower anyone to design, market, and even conceptualize businesses with previously unimaginable speed and ease.
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June 12, 2025

How We Built A $300M+ Onchain Business in 2025 - Sky Founder, Rune Christensen

The Rollup

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Hyper-Rational Focus Wins: Targeting "mercenary capital" with the best risk-adjusted returns creates a superior product for all users.
  2. Decentralized Innovation Engine: The "Stars" ecosystem is Sky's scalable solution for dynamic yield generation and market penetration, adapting faster than centralized models.
  3. AI is the Arbiter: Future stablecoin dominance will be heavily influenced by AI, both in yield sourcing by protocols and in product selection by users seeking maximum efficiency.
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June 11, 2025

The Ultimate AI Video Stack: Up-to-Date Best Tools to Make Content With AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Assemble Your AI Arsenal: Master video creation by strategically combining specialized tools: V3 for text-to-video, Cling 2.1 for image animation, Hedra for lip-sync, Higsfield for VFX, and Krea for multi-model experimentation and enhancement.
  2. Master the Art of the Prompt: Precision in prompting is paramount. Sequential descriptions in V3 ensure narrative coherence, while ample text for audio prevents awkward AI-generated filler.
  3. Iterate, Enhance, Conquer: Beyond initial generation, platforms like Krea are crucial for refining AI video, offering upscaling, frame rate boosts, and cross-model comparisons to achieve professional-grade outputs.
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June 10, 2025

Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Predictable AI: Shift focus from chasing perfect AI accuracy to building systems where AI errors are predictable and manageable, enabling human oversight where it matters most.
  2. Agents as Co-Pilots: Leverage AI agents to accelerate development and design ("compile time"), but maintain human control and deterministic execution in production ("runtime").
  3. Reimagine Customer Experience: AI offers a profound opportunity to move beyond process optimization and create entirely new, more intuitive, and efficient ways for customers to interact with businesses.
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June 9, 2025

Shakeel Hussein: Ridges AI, Bittensor AI Agents, Decentralized Software Engineering | Ep. 47

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ridges AI is pioneering a decentralized, hyper-competitive model for AI-driven software development. Speed, open innovation, and smart incentives are their weapons of choice in the race to automate coding.
  2. Execute Relentlessly: In the fast-paced AI domain, Ridges AI prioritizes rapid iteration and learning over perfecting initial designs.
  3. Open Code, Fierce Competition: Making agent code public is designed to spark a continuous improvement cycle, as miners build upon each other's work.
  4. The End of Human Coding is the Goal: Shakeel's explicit aim is for Ridges AI agents to entirely replace the need for human software engineers.
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June 8, 2025

We have a problem with ChatBot Arena.

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Gaming is Rife: Major players admit to fine-tuning models specifically for Arena, meaning high scores don't always reflect real-world, generalizable capability.
  2. Data Access Skews Results: Preferential treatment in sample rates and access to Arena data for fine-tuning gives proprietary models a significant, often undisclosed, advantage.
  3. Transparency & Fair Play Needed: ChatBot Arena must implement stricter, transparent rules—like prohibiting score retractions, limiting private models, and ensuring fair sampling—to restore trust and utility.
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Crypto Podcasts

August 4, 2025

The Bull Case For GLXY

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. A Sum-of-the-Parts Discount: The market is failing to properly value Galaxy’s three distinct segments. The existing data center deal with CoreWeave alone is arguably worth more than the current stock price, meaning investors get the robust crypto business and a multi-billion dollar balance sheet for free.
  2. Unmatched Credibility in AI Pivot: Galaxy’s multi-billion dollar balance sheet is its trump card. It provides the financial muscle and credibility to secure financing and execute massive data center projects, a feat cash-burning Bitcoin miners can only talk about.
  3. An Execution-Driven Rocket Ship: The current valuation offers a significant margin of safety. If management successfully executes the full buildout of Helios and secures new tenants for its massive power pipeline, the upside is astronomical.
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August 1, 2025

Inside Crypto’s Credit Revival With Sid Powell | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways
  1. The US is Back in the Game: The regulatory climate has shifted from a headwind to a tailwind. The new clarity allows builders to focus on product, not legal acrobatics, and gives institutions the green light to engage.
  2. Leverage is Transparent, Not Gone: The system is deleveraged, but more importantly, its risk profile has improved dramatically. Leverage now lives in safer, productized, and on-chain formats built on verifiable custody rather than handshake deals.
  3. Bitcoin is Becoming Core Collateral: Look beyond Bitcoin as just "digital gold." Its true institutional power is emerging as a pristine collateral asset, set to anchor a multi-hundred-billion-dollar lending market packaged for TradFi consumption.
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August 1, 2025

SEC Announces "Project Crypto." This Changes Everything.

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The On-Chain Mandate is Here. The SEC is no longer an obstacle but a proponent of moving U.S. capital markets onto blockchains. This signals a green light for builders and investors focused on tokenization and on-chain financial infrastructure.
  2. The "Pretend" Game is Over. With the SEC lead declaring "most tokens are not securities," the industry can move past the convoluted narratives used to avoid regulatory scrutiny. Projects can now be more direct about value accrual and business models.
  3. The Roman Storm Verdict is Crypto's Next Big Catalyst. The outcome of this trial will have profound implications. An acquittal would be a massive win for open-source developers and privacy, while a conviction could set a chilling precedent for years to come.
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July 30, 2025

How The U.S. Controls The Global Economy

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Crypto Is America's Counter-Offensive. The U.S. is betting on privately-issued, regulated stablecoins—not a government-backed digital dollar—to maintain its edge in global payments. This strategy mirrors how it co-opted the offshore Eurodollar market in the 1970s to expand the dollar’s influence.
  2. The Rise of Parallel Systems. The weaponization of the dollar is forcing countries like China to build their own financial infrastructure (e.g., the M-Bridge platform). This guarantees a future where nations have multiple payment networks to choose from, eroding the U.S.’s unique leverage.
  3. Sanctions Are Not a Free Lunch. While a powerful alternative to military conflict, economic sanctions must be used judiciously. Overusing them risks dulling their impact and ultimately dismantling the very system that grants the U.S. its power.
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July 30, 2025

Can ETH Outperform SOL In 2025?

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH's Narrative Is Its Near-Term Weapon. ETH's strength lies in a story simple enough for a "dumb banker": massive market cap, 80%+ stablecoin dominance, and the perceived success of its L2s. This makes it an easier buy for TradFi, even if the value accrual thesis is murky.
  2. Solana Is Playing The Long Game. Solana is betting that superior tech will ultimately win. Its focus isn't on the current TradFi narrative but on building the infrastructure for future "internet capital markets," a strategy that requires patience.
  3. Stablecoin Liquidity Is a Vanity Metric. Billions in stablecoins on platforms like Aave don't automatically translate to productive economic activity. The primary use case remains on-chain speculation, challenging the idea that massive liquidity is an end in itself.
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July 29, 2025

ETH Makes a Comeback While Crypto’s Animal Spirits Revive - Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ditch the Beta, Pick Your Alts: The days of everything moving in unison are fading. Idiosyncratic returns are back, rewarding investors who can identify projects with strong, sustainable tokenomics.
  2. Beware the Treasury Treadmill: The crypto treasury model is not an "infinite money glitch." Expect premiums to compress and consolidation to begin as the market becomes saturated and the ability to raise capital at a premium wanes.
  3. Tokenization is the Next Frontier: The real institutional play is the rise of "internet capital markets." The tokenization of money market funds by giants like BNY and Goldman will create new, regulated avenues for investment and yield generation on-chain.
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