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AI Podcasts

February 13, 2026

Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI industry is transitioning from a model-centric competition to an infrastructure and agent-centric one, where raw compute and persistent user experience dictate long-term value.
  2. Prioritize investments in AI infrastructure providers and platforms that enable model agnosticism and agent memory.
  3. Expect continued massive capital expenditure in AI infrastructure, a focus on enterprise solutions, and the rise of "sticky" AI agents that abstract away underlying model changes, shifting the competitive battleground.
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February 13, 2026

Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI industry is moving from a software-like model, where products have long lifespans, to one where models are rapidly depreciating assets requiring continuous, heavy R&D investment.
  2. Prioritize investments in AI infrastructure and agent orchestration layers that abstract away underlying models.
  3. The market is underestimating the demand growth for increasingly capable AI models.
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February 13, 2026

Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: AI models are rapidly depreciating software assets, making the underlying compute and energy infrastructure the enduring value proposition.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize building model-agnostic agentic workflows that retain memory and context, allowing for flexible model swapping and cost optimization.
  3. The Bottom Line: The AI race is a capital-intensive marathon where infrastructure ownership and a long-term vision for capability expansion, not immediate model profitability, will determine market leadership over the next 6-12 months.
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February 13, 2026

Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Invest in companies building core AI infrastructure (GPUs, energy, data centers) or those developing enterprise-grade AI agents that deliver measurable, long-duration value, rather than consumer-focused models with short lifespans.
  2. The AI industry is moving from a software-like gross margin business to an infrastructure-heavy, capital-intensive play where sustained R&D investment is a prerequisite for market relevance, not just growth.
  3. The market's recent jitters about AI capex miss the point: demand for increasingly capable AI is outstripping supply.
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February 13, 2026

Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Prioritize investments in AI infrastructure plays (GPUs, energy, data centers) and companies building model-agnostic agent layers.
  2. The market is underestimating the insatiable demand for increasingly capable AI, which will drive massive compute spend and make infrastructure the true bottleneck and value driver over the next 6-12 months.
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February 13, 2026

Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Insatiable demand for ever-improving AI capabilities is driving unprecedented compute spend, but the true long-term value shifts from rapidly depreciating models to the underlying, enduring infrastructure and the persistent "memory" of AI agents.
  2. Invest in or build solutions that abstract away the underlying model, focusing on agentic memory and robust infrastructure. This future-proofs against model obsolescence and capitalizes on the growing demand for persistent AI workers.
  3. The market's recent "whiplash" on AI valuations misses the core truth: demand for advanced AI is outstripping supply. Companies that can build or secure infrastructure and develop sticky, agent-based experiences will capture significant value over the next 6-12 months, despite current profitability questions.
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February 13, 2026

Inside the economics of OpenAI (exclusive research)

Azeem Azhar

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI industry is reorienting from a model-centric race to an infrastructure and agent-centric value proposition, where delivering persistent, high-value AI workers will outweigh the transient superiority of any single model.
  2. Invest in or build solutions that abstract away the underlying LLM, focusing on agentic memory, workflow integration, and robust infrastructure.
  3. The next 6-12 months will see a continued re-evaluation of AI valuations, favoring companies that demonstrate a clear path to monetizing agentic capabilities and owning critical compute infrastructure, rather than just shipping the "next best model."
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February 13, 2026

Memory Mayhem & AI Capex Madness

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The memory aspect of semiconductors today has gotten so extreme. Stuff is so expensive that people are simply not able to make lower-end equipment or like devices anymore. And this is like killing everything, right?
  2. AI chips deliver 65% operating margins, exceeding gaming GPUs' 40%. This incentivizes NVIDIA to prioritize AI data center chips.
  3. Meta's AI investments directly improve its core advertising business, generating substantial revenue from 3.5 billion users. This makes AI capex a straightforward investment.
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February 13, 2026

Memory Mayhem & AI Capex Madness

Semi Doped

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's insatiable memory appetite is fundamentally re-architecting the semiconductor supply chain.
  2. Invest in companies providing core AI infrastructure components that directly benefit from hyperscaler capex.
  3. The AI infrastructure buildout is accelerating, not slowing.
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Crypto Podcasts

February 12, 2026

Novelty Search feb 12, 2026

taostats

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The push for radical decentralization, as seen with Dynamic TAO's token transformation, inherently introduces market inefficiencies and bad actors, compelling communities to develop emergent, permissionless self-regulation mechanisms to achieve economic viability.
  2. Design for resilience, not prevention; assume bad actors will exist in any truly permissionless system and build in mechanisms for community-led critique and adaptation.
  3. The next 6-12 months will reward projects that embrace the full spectrum of permissionless market dynamics, understanding that robust, self-correcting communities are more valuable than perfectly sanitized, centrally controlled ones.
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February 12, 2026

What’s the Story? AI Stocks, Crypto Downturn, Metals Selloff, SaaSpocalypse | Jim Bianco

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's cost-compression power is fundamentally altering software economics, shifting value from infrastructure providers to application builders and traditional businesses, while exposing the inherent instability of leveraged "synthetic" markets in crypto.
  2. Re-evaluate portfolio allocations, considering a rotation towards traditional companies benefiting from AI's cost efficiencies and a long-term view on crypto projects focused on building replacement financial systems.
  3. The current market volatility is a re-pricing of assets in an AI-first world. Understanding where value truly accrues and crypto's need for a new, disruptive narrative will be critical for navigating the next 6-12 months.
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February 12, 2026

Building the Next-Gen Perps Engine on Solana | Tristan Frizza

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. FTX's collapse highlighted the need for transparent, self-custodial exchanges. Bullet's design ensures all operations are auditable on-chain, giving users full control of their funds.
  2. Market makers on Solana L1 faced adverse selection, where bots with faster connections could front-run their price updates. This led to consistent losses for liquidity providers.
  3. Increased market maker confidence leads to deeper order books and tighter spreads. This directly benefits all traders with better pricing and less slippage.
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February 12, 2026

BlackRock Buys UNI, Tokenized iShares, Robinhood L2 Testnet Live, & Santiago Santos & RJ

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: TradFi's embrace of crypto rails, stablecoins, and tokenized assets is undeniable, driving a new era of "Neo Finance" where efficiency gains are captured by businesses, not always the underlying protocols' tokens.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prioritize projects with clear revenue models and token designs that actively reinvest or distribute value to holders, mimicking equity-like compounding. Look for teams with agile decision-making.
  3. The Bottom Line: The next 6-12 months will see a continued repricing of crypto assets. Focus on applications and "crypto-enabled equity" that demonstrate real cash flow and a path to compounding value, rather than speculative infrastructure plays.
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February 11, 2026

Gordon Frayne: Tao Ecosystem Insights, Bittensor Subnets vs ERC20 Tokens DeFi Liquidity | Ep. 81

Ventura Labs

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Decentralized AI evolves beyond simple compute, with Bittensor establishing a "proof of useful work" model. This incentivizes specialized intelligence and democratizes early-stage AI investment.
  2. Research and allocate capital to Bittensor subnets with strong fundamentals and high staking yields (30-150% APY), outperforming TAO.
  3. Bittensor's unique tokenomics and incentive layer position it as critical infrastructure for decentralized AI. This offers investors and builders a compelling opportunity to accrue value in a high-growth ecosystem.
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February 11, 2026

Would BlackRock Try to Save Bitcoin From the Quantum Threat? - Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Institutional capital is forcing a re-evaluation of crypto's core tenets, pushing for greater accountability and risk mitigation, particularly in Bitcoin's governance.
  2. Prioritize investments in crypto projects demonstrating clear cash flows, real-world utility, and robust, responsive governance, rather than speculative tokens.
  3. Bitcoin's future hinges on its ability to adapt to external pressures, especially the quantum threat. Investors should monitor how institutions influence this change, as the "boring", cash-generating parts of crypto and AI infrastructure are poised for growth.
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