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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

February 2, 2026

Gavin Zaentz & Pranav Ramesh: Leadpoet, Lead Generation, Intent-Driven Sales Automation | Ep. 79

Ventura Labs

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The shift from centralized, static data aggregation to decentralized, real-time, incentivized intelligence networks is fundamentally changing how data-intensive industries operate.
  2. Investigate subnet opportunities where incumbent data quality is low and validation is a core challenge.
  3. The future of sales is not just about more leads, but smarter, fresher, and more relevant ones.
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February 3, 2026

Gold Crashes, Bitcoin Slides, and the Fed Shock Markets

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: As trust erodes in traditional financial systems and geopolitical risks rise, capital is flowing towards more efficient, permissionless DeFi markets. This is forcing traditional finance to adapt or lose market share.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Evaluate DATs trading below NAV for potential M&A or activist plays, as these discounts often reflect management misalignment rather than fundamental asset weakness.
  3. The Bottom Line: The current market volatility, Fed policy shifts, and the rise of DeFi are not just noise; they are reshaping capital allocation. Investors and builders must understand these structural changes to position for the next cycle of institutional adoption.
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February 2, 2026

Metals Crash & Bitcoin Breaks $80k

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Global economic uncertainty and tariff threats are triggering a broad risk-off sentiment, creating dislocations where fundamentally strong assets are sold indiscriminately.
  2. Reallocate capital from speculative metals positions into Bitcoin at current levels and high-conviction, revenue-producing crypto platforms like Hyperliquid.
  3. The current market turbulence is separating the signal from the noise. Focus on assets with strong fundamentals and organic usage, as they are poised for significant gains once the broader market stabilizes.
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February 3, 2026

Is BTC A Buy, Metals Crash, Hyperliquid RWAs, New Fed Chair

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Global market indigestion is creating a flight to quality and a re-evaluation of speculative assets. This environment favors fundamentally strong assets and platforms with clear utility over pure FOMO plays.
  2. Consider tax-loss harvesting Bitcoin positions that are out of the money and reallocate to high-conviction, revenue-producing crypto assets like Hyperliquid.
  3. The "crypto portfolio" concept is evolving; focus on individual assets with strong organic usage and mega-trend tailwinds. This strategic shift will differentiate winners from losers in the coming market cycles.
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February 2, 2026

Why BitGo Went Public | Mike Belshe

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Regulatory clarity and institutional demand are converging, driving a fundamental re-architecture of financial market infrastructure. This shift will see traditional finance increasingly rely on regulated crypto-native service providers.
  2. Builders and investors should prioritize infrastructure providers that offer robust regulatory compliance and fiduciary protection, as these are the non-negotiable requirements for the next wave of institutional capital.
  3. The digital asset industry is poised for massive growth, driven by Wall Street's entry. Companies like BitGo, by building transparent, regulated infrastructure, are not just participating in this growth; they are actively shaping the future of finance, making now the time to understand these foundational shifts.
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February 2, 2026

Curated Credit: How Maple and Morpho Approach DeFi Lending | Sid Powell & Merlin Egalite

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Institutional capital is eyeing DeFi, pushing for tokenized real-world assets like private credit and bonds to diversify yield sources beyond crypto-backed loans. This requires robust risk isolation at the smart contract level and a new generation of independent risk assessors to bridge TradFi and DeFi.
  2. Prioritize protocols that offer explicit risk profiles and transparent fee structures, especially those building towards intent-based lending. For builders, focus on creating infrastructure that supports isolated risk and attracts independent rating agencies.
  3. The future of DeFi lending hinges on transparency and sophisticated risk management. As institutions enter, the demand for clear, independently verified risk assessments will intensify, making protocols that embrace these principles the winners in the next market cycle.
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