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AI Podcasts

December 15, 2025

Building in the Gemini Era – Kat Kampf & Ammaar Reshi, Google DeepMind

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The value in software development shifts from manual coding to high-level architectural design and prompt engineering.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Experiment with AI Studio's agentic and design capabilities. Focus on describing desired functionality rather than low-level code.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will see a surge in AI-powered, full-stack applications built by a broader range of creators, disrupting traditional development paradigms.
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December 16, 2025

What We Learned Deploying AI within Bloomberg’s Engineering Organization – Lei Zhang, Bloomberg

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: AI's impact extends beyond simple productivity. The real opportunity lies in fundamentally changing the cost function of engineering, making previously expensive or undesirable tasks cheap and feasible.
  2. Platform Imperative: For large organizations, a "golden path" platform is not optional. It's how you manage complexity, ensure quality, and scale AI adoption safely and efficiently.
  3. Human-Centric Adaptation: Technology is only half the battle. Investing in cultural adaptation, community building, and leadership training is crucial for realizing AI's full potential.
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December 16, 2025

Your Support Team Should Ship Code – Lisa Orr, Zapier

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: Companies integrating AI-driven code generation into non-engineering roles will see significant efficiency gains and improved product reliability.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on building AI tools that deeply embed into existing workflows. Orchestration of multiple AI tools into an agent-like system is key for adoption and value.
  3. The "So What?": The next 6-12 months will see a redefinition of "support" from reactive reporting to proactive, code-shipping problem-solving, unlocking new talent pools and accelerating development cycles.
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December 16, 2025

Finding The 1% of Stocks That Matter | Henry Ellenbogen Interview

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The AI era will disproportionately reward existing businesses that deeply integrate AI to create unassailable cost structures, not just new AI-native ventures.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Seek out resilient "Act II" leaders who embrace the "and" business—growth, innovation, and profitability—and are willing to navigate public market scrutiny for long-term alignment.
  3. The "So What?": Over the next 6-12 months, expect market volatility to create opportunities to invest in disciplined companies leveraging AI for fundamental operational shifts, rather than just hype.
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December 15, 2025

The Renaissance of the American Factory | a16z 2026 Big Ideas

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The next wave of industrial growth will come from applying manufacturing principles to large-scale infrastructure, not just consumer goods.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Focus on companies that are standardizing designs and processes for physical assets, particularly those leveraging AI to navigate regulatory complexity and accelerate deployment.
  3. The "So What?": The rapid build-out of data centers is a live experiment for a broader industrial renaissance, providing a blueprint for how America can rebuild its capacity to build at scale over the next 6-12 months.
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December 16, 2025

⚡️Jailbreaking AGI: Pliny the Liberator & John V on Red Teaming, BT6, and the Future of AI Security

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The "AI safety" narrative is shifting from content moderation to systemic security. Focus on hardening the entire AI ecosystem, not just restricting model outputs.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Be wary of "AI security" products that claim to "secure the model" through guardrails. These are likely security theater. Invest in full-stack AI security solutions, red teaming services, and platforms that facilitate open-source adversarial research.
  3. The "So What?": The future of AI security is not about building higher walls around models, but about understanding and hardening the entire ecosystem in which they operate. Open collaboration and adversarial testing are the fastest paths to robust AI.
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December 15, 2025

Evolving Large Language Model Evaluation: Practices and Insights from the Swallow Project

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The quality and sophistication of LLM evaluation frameworks are now as critical as the models themselves. This is a foundational layer for AI progress.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Builders must adopt adaptive evaluation. Investors should scrutinize how LLM performance is measured, not just the headline numbers.
  3. The "So What?": As LLMs gain complex reasoning and instruction-following abilities, evaluation frameworks that can accurately measure these capabilities will be essential for identifying true innovation and avoiding misallocated resources in the next 6-12 months.
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December 15, 2025

LLM Research and Development Initiatives at the National Institute of Informatics

Weights & Biases

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Sovereign AI is Real: Nations are investing in domestic AI capabilities to counter linguistic bias and ensure data control. This creates opportunities for specialized models and infrastructure.
  2. Builder's Edge: Meticulous parameter tuning, high-quality data curation, and innovative architectures like MoE are crucial for achieving top-tier LLM performance.
  3. The Agentic Future: AI agents are rapidly becoming indispensable tools in research and education, demanding robust, reliable, and culturally relevant LLM backbones.
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December 15, 2025

Coding Evals: From Code Snippets to Codebases – Naman Jain, Cursor

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The future of AI code generation hinges on dynamic, robust evaluation systems that adapt to evolving model capabilities and detect sophisticated exploitation.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Invest in or build evaluation infrastructure that incorporates dynamic problem sets, LLM-driven hack detection, and granular, human-centric metrics.
  3. The "So What?": Relying on static benchmarks is a losing game. The next 6-12 months will see a push towards more sophisticated, real-world-aligned evaluation methods, separating genuinely capable models from those that merely game the system.
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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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