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AI Podcasts

June 17, 2025

Harry Dewhirst: What If the Physical World Had an API? — 375ai, DePIN, and Real-Time Data for AI

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. 375AI’s targeted deployment in high-value zones yields monetizable data from the outset, sidestepping the "build it and they will come" pitfall common in DePIN.
  2. For real-world sensor networks, processing data locally on devices is paramount for user privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.
  3. AI models, especially LLMs, are hungry for real-time, high-fidelity data about the physical environment, creating a massive opportunity for networks like 375AI.
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June 16, 2025

AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Nuance: AI traffic isn't monolithic. Develop granular controls to allow beneficial AI while blocking malicious actors, understanding that AI can be a customer.
  2. Layer Your Defenses: Combine traditional methods with modern fingerprinting and identity verification, preparing for a future where AI analyzes traffic in real time.
  3. Context is King: Security decisions must be deeply integrated with application logic to avoid harming user experience or revenue.
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June 16, 2025

AI Model's Adaptability & Real World Potential

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Adaptability is King:** The model’s capacity to "course correct" and "power through" challenges is a pivotal advancement, promising more robust AI.
  2. **Real-World Agents Incoming:** This enhanced model is poised to accelerate the development of AI agents capable of practical, impactful tasks.
  3. **Hands-On for Breakthroughs:** The true potential will be realized as developers dive in, experiment, and translate these new capabilities into innovative applications.
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June 16, 2025

AI Will Bring Billions of Capital On-Chain — Here's How

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Web2 Leads the Charge: Anticipate major Web2 companies leveraging their user base and trust to be the primary drivers bringing AI-powered capital on-chain initially.
  2. Agents are the Future: AI agents will be the killer app for crypto, finally delivering applications with mainstream utility and revenue potential.
  3. Parallel Evolution: The growth of AI in crypto will see Web2 institutional adoption and native crypto AI agent development advance simultaneously, creating a compounding effect on innovation and capital inflow.
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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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Crypto Podcasts

April 30, 2025

Michael Saylor's Billion Dollar Bitcoin Trade

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Saylor's Playbook Goes Viral:** The MSTR strategy of leveraging stock premiums to acquire Bitcoin is being actively replicated, potentially fragmenting demand but also increasing overall leveraged exposure.
  2. **Leverage Risk Amplified:** New MSTR-like vehicles often lack an underlying business, making them pure, high-risk leveraged bets on Bitcoin funded by debt, vulnerable to sharp price declines.
  3. **GBTC Déjà Vu:** The rise of these debt-fueled Bitcoin acquisition vehicles strongly echoes the dynamics of the ultimately disastrous GBTC premium trade, signaling caution is warranted as this trend accelerates.
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April 29, 2025

What's Driving Bitcoin Higher?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **ETF Flows Are Legit:** The billions pouring into Bitcoin ETFs represent real, broad-based demand, not just arbitrage froth.
  2. **Beware the MSTR Clones:** The rise of leveraged Bitcoin-buying public companies is the biggest near-term systemic risk – watch those premiums.
  3. **RWAs Are Real AF:** Don't sleep on Real World Assets; platforms like Pendle and Maple show explosive growth and represent the next major crypto narrative.
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April 29, 2025

Should VCs Benchmark Against Bitcoin? | Jon Charbonneau

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Don't Benchmark VCs Against Bitcoin: It's comparing different asset classes with separate goals and risk profiles.
  2. Use Altcoin Baskets Instead: A weighted average of major altcoins (ETH, SOL, etc.) offers a more relevant performance yardstick for crypto VCs.
  3. Know Your Exposure: LPs seeking Bitcoin returns should buy Bitcoin directly; VC funds offer exposure to the venture-style growth potential of crypto beyond Bitcoin.
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April 29, 2025

Why BlackRock Is Bullish On Tokenization

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tokenization is Strategic: BlackRock sees tokenizing assets as fundamental to improving market access and efficiency, dedicating significant focus to this path.
  2. Bridging is Key: Practical solutions like ETPs and tokenized funds are crucial tools BlackRock is deploying to connect TradFi users and crypto-native institutions.
  3. Transition Takes Time: The shift to tokenized markets will be gradual, requiring careful management of legacy systems and ensuring interoperability is maintained.
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April 29, 2025

Would you take Bitcoin over 5 years or random altcoins?

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Altcoin Asymmetry: Lower-cap altcoins offer higher potential percentage gains (3-4x) with less required capital inflow compared to Bitcoin.
  2. Bitcoin's Gravity: Bitcoin's massive size makes large multiple gains (like 3x) significantly harder, requiring vast capital injections.
  3. Liquidity is King: Your bet hinges on future macro conditions; high liquidity environments tend to disproportionately benefit riskier, less liquid altcoins.
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April 29, 2025

Bits + Bips Live: Crypto, Macro, Tariffs, Stablecoins, and More

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Trump Put is Real:** Market reactions demonstrably curb aggressive tariff policies; expect continued volatility but likely avoidance of worst-case tariff scenarios as Trump needs stable markets.
  2. **Bitcoin Treasury Flywheel Spins Faster:** Expect more MicroStrategy clones globally, leveraging debt and equity markets to acquire Bitcoin. Monitor NAV premiums closely – their collapse is the model's Achilles' heel.
  3. **Bitcoin's Narrative Strengthens:** Bitcoin's recent decoupling and resilience amid macro turmoil bolsters its digital gold thesis, attracting attention even from skeptics, while altcoins struggle to keep pace this cycle.
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