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AI Podcasts

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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June 11, 2025

The Ultimate AI Video Stack: Up-to-Date Best Tools to Make Content With AI

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Assemble Your AI Arsenal: Master video creation by strategically combining specialized tools: V3 for text-to-video, Cling 2.1 for image animation, Hedra for lip-sync, Higsfield for VFX, and Krea for multi-model experimentation and enhancement.
  2. Master the Art of the Prompt: Precision in prompting is paramount. Sequential descriptions in V3 ensure narrative coherence, while ample text for audio prevents awkward AI-generated filler.
  3. Iterate, Enhance, Conquer: Beyond initial generation, platforms like Krea are crucial for refining AI video, offering upscaling, frame rate boosts, and cross-model comparisons to achieve professional-grade outputs.
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June 10, 2025

Giving New Life to Unstructured Data with LLMs and Agents

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Predictable AI: Shift focus from chasing perfect AI accuracy to building systems where AI errors are predictable and manageable, enabling human oversight where it matters most.
  2. Agents as Co-Pilots: Leverage AI agents to accelerate development and design ("compile time"), but maintain human control and deterministic execution in production ("runtime").
  3. Reimagine Customer Experience: AI offers a profound opportunity to move beyond process optimization and create entirely new, more intuitive, and efficient ways for customers to interact with businesses.
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June 9, 2025

Shakeel Hussein: Ridges AI, Bittensor AI Agents, Decentralized Software Engineering | Ep. 47

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Ridges AI is pioneering a decentralized, hyper-competitive model for AI-driven software development. Speed, open innovation, and smart incentives are their weapons of choice in the race to automate coding.
  2. Execute Relentlessly: In the fast-paced AI domain, Ridges AI prioritizes rapid iteration and learning over perfecting initial designs.
  3. Open Code, Fierce Competition: Making agent code public is designed to spark a continuous improvement cycle, as miners build upon each other's work.
  4. The End of Human Coding is the Goal: Shakeel's explicit aim is for Ridges AI agents to entirely replace the need for human software engineers.
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June 8, 2025

We have a problem with ChatBot Arena.

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Gaming is Rife: Major players admit to fine-tuning models specifically for Arena, meaning high scores don't always reflect real-world, generalizable capability.
  2. Data Access Skews Results: Preferential treatment in sample rates and access to Arena data for fine-tuning gives proprietary models a significant, often undisclosed, advantage.
  3. Transparency & Fair Play Needed: ChatBot Arena must implement stricter, transparent rules—like prohibiting score retractions, limiting private models, and ensuring fair sampling—to restore trust and utility.
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Crypto Podcasts

April 8, 2025

The State Of Solana With Carlos Gonzalez Campo

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Apps Outearn the Chain: Solana apps are generating nearly twice the revenue ($1.84) per dollar compared to the network itself, proving strong economic viability on the platform.
  2. Fundamentals Over Price: Despite SOL's price drop, core network health indicators like stablecoin supply and DEX activity remain robust, suggesting the sell-off may be detached from on-chain reality.
  3. L1 Scaling is Priority: Solana is doubling down on enhancing the L1 directly via upgrades (like TPU feedback) and app-level innovation (off-chain elements), rejecting Ethereum's L2 path to keep liquidity unified.
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April 8, 2025

Grifters, Meme Coins & the Solana Comeback

The Rollup

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Grifters Follow the Heat: Speculative actors migrate to blockchains with the highest activity and potential returns, currently favouring Solana's meme coin ecosystem.
  2. Meme Coins Drive Cycles: Love them or hate them, meme coins are a powerful catalyst for user activity, price appreciation, and ecosystem attention, replicating patterns seen in Ethereum's growth.
  3. Underdog Narratives Fuel Growth: Facing adversity can forge strong, defiant communities (like Solana post-FTX) that focus inward and drive significant comebacks, echoing Ethereum's own path to dominance.
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April 7, 2025

How to Raise Crypto VC, Investing in DePIN, Network States, and the Electro Dollar with Anirudh Pai

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Real Demand Trumps Hype: Prove long-term user need and cultivate raving fans; that’s the best pitch.
  2. DePIN Needs Web2 Polish: Solve user friction, especially payments, before reinventing complex crypto-native wheels.
  3. Bet on Abundance & Serendipity: The future hinges on cheap energy and compute ("Electro Dollar"), found through irrational exploration, not just rigid pattern-matching.
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April 7, 2025

Trump vs Markets: Who Blinks First? | Avi Felman & Jonah Van Bourg

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Buy the Fear (Strategically): Extreme volatility, record volume, and forced selling signal potential bottoms; scaling into weakness is preferred over trying to perfectly time the low.
  2. Crypto Gains Relative Strength: Bitcoin benefits from deglobalization trends and anticipated global stimulus (ex-US), potentially outperforming traditional assets in this environment.
  3. Inflation Fears Overblown, Fed Pivot Likely: The market crash itself is deflationary; expect the Fed to tolerate the pain to kill inflation, then pivot towards easing (likely starting May), further supporting risk assets eventually.
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April 7, 2025

Why Is Trump Nuking Markets? | Felix Jauvin

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trump's Gambit: The tariff chaos might be a high-stakes strategy to isolate China, forcing allies to choose sides and share the burden of the US security umbrella.
  2. Buy the Blood (Carefully): With equities down ~20% and VIX elevated, it's time to cautiously scale into risk assets, accepting potential short-term pain to catch an eventual rebound.
  3. Bitcoin's Edge: De-globalization and reactive global stimulus position Bitcoin favorably, potentially decoupling (or at least outperforming) traditional assets in the near term.
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April 7, 2025

Hating on Crypto (With Love) | Felix Jauvin & James Christoph

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Stablecoin Issuers are Cash Cows:** Companies like Circle (IPO soon) benefit massively from yield capture on reserves; regulation might even lock this in.
  2. **DeFi Degens vs. TradFi Suits:** Expect ongoing clashes as institutional capital demands simpler structures, challenging crypto's complex governance/token models.
  3. **Meme Coins Aren't Dying:** Despite drawdowns, platforms like Pump.fun show meme creation/trading has strong, persistent demand and revenue generation.
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