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AI Podcasts

December 13, 2025

Proactive Agents – Kath Korevec, Google Labs

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The market is moving beyond basic "copilot" functionality. The next frontier is proactive, context-aware AI that reduces cognitive load and integrates seamlessly into existing workflows.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on building or investing in multi-agent architectures that converge context across the entire product lifecycle (code, design, data) and prioritize human-in-the-loop alignment over pure autonomy.
  3. The "So What?": The fundamental patterns of software development (Git, IDEs, even code itself) are ripe for disruption. Don't be afraid to question old ways; the future of how software is built is being invented right now.
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December 13, 2025

Minimax M2 – Olive Song, MiniMax

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The "Small is Mighty" Paradigm:** Don't underestimate smaller, specialized models. M2 proves that smart engineering, real-world feedback, and iterative reasoning can outperform larger models in specific, high-value domains.
  2. **Builders, Embrace Iteration:** Design your agents with "interleaved thinking." The ability to self-correct and adapt to noisy environments is critical for real-world utility.
  3. **The "So What?":** The next wave of AI agents will be defined by their robustness, cost-effectiveness, and ability to generalize across dynamic environments. M2 is a blueprint for building practical, scalable AI that developers will actually integrate into their daily workflows.
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December 11, 2025

No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski

No Priors: AI, Machine Learning, Tech, & Startups

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: The future of human-computer interaction is voice-first, moving from static content to dynamic, personalized, and agentic experiences.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Defensibility in AI is increasingly found in deep product layers, specialized architectural breakthroughs (especially in audio), and robust ecosystems, not just raw model scale.
  3. The "So What?": Over the next 6-12 months, expect to see significant advancements in proactive AI agents, immersive media, and personalized education, with voice as the core interface.
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December 10, 2025

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI-Delegation Revolution is Here: Start experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT for delegation now. The future involves proactive machine assistants deeply integrated into your workflow.
  2. Builders & Investors: Focus on "How to Delegate": The biggest constraint isn't finding assistants, but teaching clients how to delegate effectively. Tools and services that educate delegators will win.
  3. Reclaim Your Ambition: By offloading the mundane, you free up mental bandwidth to think bigger, pursue more ambitious goals, and ultimately, control your most valuable asset: time.
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December 12, 2025

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The AI bubble is inevitable. Focus on defensible positions: deep product integration, proprietary data, and distribution, rather than just raw model performance.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: The opportunity lies in productizing AI for specific "jobs to be done" within niche industries, creating intuitive UIs, and building in validation, not just building another foundational model.
  3. The "So What?": We're about to figure out the true "job to be done" for many industries. AI will unbundle existing businesses by exposing their hidden inefficiencies or non-obvious defensibilities.
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December 13, 2025

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Parsimony and Self-Consistency: Adopt these principles as guiding forces in AI design. Build models that not only compress data efficiently but also maintain a high degree of self-consistency to ensure accurate and reliable world models.
  2. Focus on Abstraction, Not Just Memorization: Prioritize developing systems that can abstract knowledge beyond mere memorization. Move beyond surface-level compression and aim for models that can discover and reason about the underlying principles of the world.
  3. Understand and Reproduce the Brain’s Mechanisms: Focus on understanding and reproducing the mechanisms in the human brain that enable deductive reasoning, logical thinking, and the creation of new scientific theories to truly push AI to the next level.
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December 10, 2025

Nav Kumar: Trishool, AI Alignment, Subnet 23, Mechanistic Interpretability, Rogue LLMs | Ep. 75

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Prioritize AI Safety Research:** Invest aggressively in understanding and mitigating AI risks to safeguard humanity against potential rogue LLMs.
  2. **Support Decentralized AI Alignment:** Champion decentralized platforms like Bit Tensor and initiatives like Trishool that promote open and transparent AI alignment research.
  3. **Embrace Mechanistic Interpretability:** Drive the development of tools that enable us to understand and control the internal workings of AI models, ensuring alignment with human values.
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December 10, 2025

Everyone Needs an Assistant. Here’s Why.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Delegation as a Foundational Skill: Whether you leverage AI or human support, mastering delegation is paramount for unlocking personal and professional potential.
  2. Prioritize Time Ownership: Recognize time as your most valuable asset and design your life and calendar around your highest goals.
  3. Start Small, Scale Intentionally: Begin with affordable AI tools and gradually incorporate human assistance as your budget and needs evolve, building trust and compounding leverage over time.
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December 8, 2025

Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Analog:** Explore and invest in analog computing solutions to overcome the energy limitations of current digital AI systems.
  2. **Prioritize Causality:** Shift focus towards AI models that incorporate time and causality, potentially unlocking more advanced and human-like intelligence.
  3. **Support Hardware Innovation:** Invest in and foster startups like Unconventional AI that are tackling fundamental challenges in AI hardware.
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Crypto Podcasts

April 23, 2025

Are there too many tokens?

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Token quantity isn't the crisis: The market has always had more tokens than it can handle; this hasn't fundamentally changed.
  2. Macro calls the shots: Current market weakness and flight-to-quality (Bitcoin > Alts) are overwhelmingly driven by global economic downturn fears.
  3. Don't misinterpret signals: Resist attributing broad market moves solely to internal crypto factors like token supply when obvious external pressures exist.
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April 23, 2025

Why a Trump vs. Fed Showdown Would Crush the U.S. Dollar - Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Dollar Under Fire:** Expect continued US Dollar weakness (DXY potentially heading to 70) as policy uncertainty pushes investors towards alternatives.
  2. **Rotate, Rotate, Rotate:** US large-cap equities face headwinds; scarce assets like Gold, Copper, and notably Bitcoin are the favoured plays in this stagflationary environment.
  3. **Bitcoin: Digital Gold Rising:** Bitcoin's narrative as a non-sovereign store of value and hedge against institutional instability is gaining significant traction, potentially attracting sovereign buyers soon.
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April 22, 2025

How Does Circle Compete Against Other Stablecoins?

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Margin Compression is Real: High distribution payouts ($900M to Coinbase) severely impact profitability.
  2. Banks Are Coming: Impending regulation could unleash bank competition, challenging Circle's market share.
  3. Pivot or Perish: Circle must transition from interest-rate reliance towards transaction fees or B2B partnerships to survive and justify its valuation.
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April 22, 2025

A New Era For Crypto In 2025 | Miller Whitehouse-Levine

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Legislation is Coming: Expect significant movement on stablecoin and market structure bills; their final form will shape the US crypto landscape for years.
  2. Advocacy Pays (and Diversifies): The era of a single unified crypto lobby is evolving; expect more ecosystem-specific efforts alongside broader industry initiatives. Solana is planting its flag.
  3. Watch the DOJ: Beyond the SEC/CFTC, the DOJ's stance on money transmission laws (18 USC 1960) presents a serious, potentially criminal, risk that needs urgent legislative clarification.
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April 22, 2025

Market and Tariff Predictions

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Expect Intervention: Bond volatility at critical levels (Move Index 135) signals central banks are likely nearing intervention, potentially through rate cuts or liquidity injections.
  2. Tariffs as Catalyst: View recent tariffs as an accelerant, forcing the inevitable recourse to money printing to address systemic issues sooner.
  3. Money Printer Goes Brrr: The core conviction remains: authorities will choose monetary stimulus over austerity, ultimately boosting inflation hedges like crypto.
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April 21, 2025

Are Fundamentals Finally Bullish?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bitcoin's Hedging Potential is Real: Its decoupling from equities isn't just noise; it could signal a structural shift attracting significant institutional flows seeking portfolio protection.
  2. Altcoins Aren't Dead, Just Different: Forget meme coins; focus shifts to projects with tangible revenue and strong tokenomics (think exchanges like Hyperliquid with fee buybacks). Deep research is non-negotiable.
  3. Consider BTC Upside Exposure: Given the potential for a rapid, institution-led rally and relatively low implied volatility, Bitcoin call options or proxies like IBIT calls offer asymmetric upside.
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