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AI Podcasts

January 18, 2026

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Strategic Pivot: The transition from "Understanding-First" science to "Prediction-First" engineering. We are building artifacts that work perfectly but remain theoretically opaque.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Audit your AI stack for "Leaky Abstractions." Don't assume a model's reasoning capabilities in one domain will hold when the underlying causal structure changes.
  3. AGI isn't just an engineering milestone; it's a philosophical wager. If the brain isn't a computer, we are building a very powerful helicopter, not a synthetic human.
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January 18, 2026

Why Every Brain Metaphor in History Has Been Wrong [SPECIAL EDITION]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The pivot from "Understanding-First" science to "Prediction-First" engineering creates massive technical liability in our models.
  2. Audit your AI implementations for "Leaky Abstractions" where the model fails to account for physical edge cases.
  3. High-performance automation is not the same as sentient reasoning. Builders who recognize this distinction will avoid the cultural illusion of inevitable AGI.
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January 17, 2026

Brex’s AI Hail Mary — With CTO James Reggio

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from deterministic software to agentic networks. Companies are moving from rigid workflows to fluid systems that plan and execute autonomously.
  2. Build an internal LLM gateway early. Centralizing model routing and cost monitoring allows you to swap providers as the model horse race changes without refactoring your product.
  3. AI is not just a feature but a fundamental restructuring of the corporate cost center. Efficiency gains allow a static headcount of 300 engineers to support a business growing 5x.
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January 14, 2026

Identity for AI Agents - Patrick Riley & Carlos Galan, Auth0

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from interactive chat to autonomous "task runners" requires a shift from session-based identity to delegated, long-term authorization.
  2. Implement the Token Vault pattern to decouple your agent logic from the mess of OAuth token refreshing.
  3. In the next year, the "Agentic Web" will live or die by trust. If you cannot prove an agent is authorized to act, it is just a fancy toy.
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January 15, 2026

AI and the Future of Warfare with US Under Secretary of War Emil Michael

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

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: The Great Re-Shoring. National security now depends on domestic production of critical minerals and semiconductors.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Build for Scale. Prioritize manufacturing competence over pure software features to win government contracts.
  3. The Bottom Line: The defense industrial base is being rebuilt from the ground up. The next decade belongs to the builders who can merge Silicon Valley speed with the Pentagon's scale.
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January 15, 2026

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from software eating the world to AI reinventing the computer means every existing market cap is a floor.
  2. Prioritize the non-fungible creator by providing monetization tools that bypass legacy gatekeepers.
  3. We are entering a period of asymmetric payoffs where the art of picking original thinkers matters more than historical data.
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January 13, 2026

Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle | Lex Fridman Podcast #489

Lex Fridman

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: Biological Sovereignty. As global systems destabilize, the Amazon remains the most critical piece of biological infrastructure on the planet.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Support Jungle Keepers. Direct capital to organizations that convert loggers into rangers to secure land concessions.
  3. The Amazon is a finite asset under active siege. Protecting it requires a blend of primitive survival skills and high-tech surveillance over the next 18 months.
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January 12, 2026

Jensen Huang says robots will have human capabilities this year! The Robots at CES Had.. Other Plans

Turing Post

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: As generative AI masters simulation, the physical world becomes a high-fidelity playground for software.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Invest in the "brain" layer rather than the "limb" layer. Software that can generalize across different hardware forms will capture the most value.
  3. The next decade belongs to embodied AI that reasons in real time. If you are waiting for the hardware to look perfect before paying attention, you will miss the moment the software takes over the physical world.
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January 12, 2026

Your MCP Server is Bad (and you should feel bad) - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: Context as Product. We are moving from raw data transport to opinionated context delivery.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prune your endpoints. Remove any tool that requires more than one step to achieve a business result.
  3. The Bottom Line: The winners of the agentic era will be those who build the best Agentic Interface Guidelines.
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Crypto Podcasts

February 2, 2026

The Last Companies That Will Ever Exist

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The global economy is transitioning from a "bits" era of digital innovation to an "atoms" era, driven by AI and robotics, where control over physical resources and their efficient deployment becomes the ultimate competitive advantage.
  2. Prioritize investments in companies demonstrating vertical integration across intelligence, energy, and labor, especially those building physical infrastructure and manufacturing capabilities at scale.
  3. The race to acquire the "Infinity Gauntlet" of capitalism is on. Companies that achieve self-sufficiency in intelligence, energy, and labor will redefine economic power, making traditional capital almost irrelevant and creating a new class of unassailable monopolies.
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February 2, 2026

Logan Jastremski: Solana vs Hyperliquid - Who Wins The Global Exchange Race?

Delphi Digital

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The global financial system demands 24/7, credibly neutral price discovery. This pushes blockchain architecture beyond raw throughput to geographically optimized, low-latency transaction inclusion, creating a truly global market.
  2. Invest in infrastructure and applications on chains pursuing multi-leader consensus and proprietary AMMs. These designs offer superior price discovery and execution for the next generation of global trading.
  3. The global exchange race is an engineering marathon, not a sprint. While Hyperliquid excels regionally, Solana's architectural bet on physics-defying global fairness aims to become the world's true price oracle, unlocking trillions in new trading volume.
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February 2, 2026

How to Fix Tokenized Securities with Olivia Olivia Vande Woude from Ava Labs

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trust is moving from opaque balance sheets to verifiable, cryptographically enforced infrastructure. This means financial protocols, not just institutions, will increasingly dictate settlement, custody, and compliance.
  2. Prioritize tokenized assets and investment vehicles that offer direct legal claims and verifiable on-chain mechanics. For builders, focus on creating infrastructure that eliminates intermediaries and provides transparent, programmable utility, like vaults.
  3. The future of finance is about verifiable infrastructure and programmable ownership. Understanding the nuances of tokenized security structures and the rise of on-chain vaults will be critical for investors and builders navigating the convergence of traditional finance and DeFi over the next 6-12 months.
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February 2, 2026

The 1010 Exploit and other broken market structures

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The market is demanding verifiable, transparent, and capital-efficient trading venues that eliminate the hidden risks of centralized intermediaries. This pushes innovation towards fully onchain, unified risk engines.
  2. Explore platforms that integrate multiple DeFi primitives (spot, perp, lending) under a single, onchain risk engine. These venues offer superior capital efficiency and potentially higher risk-adjusted returns for sophisticated strategies like basis trades.
  3. The next wave of DeFi success will come from platforms that solve for capital productivity and verifiable safety, attracting institutional and sophisticated retail capital by offering returns previously unattainable in fragmented or opaque markets.
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February 1, 2026

Crypto is so Cooked.

Taiki Maeda

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Institutional capital flow dictates market cycles; the current downturn purges weak projects, paving the way for a value-driven recovery.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Identify projects with genuine value accrual, strong fundamentals, and potential for buybacks, preparing to dollar-cost average into these "Carvana" plays.
  3. The Bottom Line: The current "gross" feeling is a signal to strategically deploy capital into long-term, high-conviction assets, rather than short-term trading.
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February 1, 2026

Looking for Gains Right Now? Crypto Isn’t the Trade — This Is: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capital is migrating from speculative, long-tail crypto assets to tokenized real-world assets and sophisticated derivatives. This reflects a broader market demand for yield, hedging, and perceived stability.
  2. Explore tokenized commodities (gold, silver) and equity perpetuals for new leverage and yield opportunities. Exercise extreme caution with prediction markets and weekend tokenized equity trading due to information asymmetry and manipulation risks.
  3. The crypto market is maturing beyond pure digital assets, integrating with traditional finance through tokenization and derivatives. Position your portfolio to capture value from this convergence, prioritizing robust liquidity and verifiable information over pure speculation.
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