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AI Podcasts

August 4, 2025

Micaela Bazo & Pedro Penna: AI, Drug Discovery, Decentralized Science, Behavioral Medicine | Ep 55

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Decentralize R&D for Efficiency. Using token-incentivized networks like Bittensor radically cuts costs and accelerates the initial drug discovery phase by tapping a competitive, global talent pool.
  2. Go Upstream for Bigger Wins. Targeting root "behavioral" causes of disease instead of just symptoms creates drugs with multi-condition applications, unlocking massive, previously unseen market potential.
  3. Innovate on Existing Rails. The fastest path to impact is by building on proven systems. Focusing on small molecules and using industry-standard validation partners creates a practical bridge between the worlds of crypto and traditional pharma.
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August 1, 2025

Will Market Euphoria Cool Off In August? | Weekly Round-Up

Forward Guidance

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Stagflation is Here: The Fed is poised to cut rates into rising inflation, an unorthodox move that signals how boxed-in monetary policy has become.
  2. The Two-Tiered Economy is Real: Capital is flowing to the "productive frontiers" of AI and tech, while legacy industries and the un-invested class get crushed. Policy is exacerbating this divide.
  3. Be Tactical, but Bet on the Ponzi: Expect a choppy August as euphoria cools. The long-term game, however, remains the same: bet on the assets that benefit from a global flight out of failing fiat and into productive, scarce technologies.
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August 1, 2025

MCP vs Browser Agents and Moving Beyond Crypto in the AI Space

Trillion Agents

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Crypto Is a Niche, Not a Foundation. AI builders are actively scrubbing crypto references from their branding to close enterprise deals. The market has decided: for now, crypto’s role is a payment rail, not the core agent stack.
  2. Bet on Native Protocols, Not Browsers. Browser-based agents are a dead end. The future belongs to agent-native protocols like MCP that enable efficient, bidirectional communication, mirroring the shift from mobile web to native apps.
  3. The AI Race Is a Power Race. The real bottleneck for AGI isn't just chips; it's energy. China's massive infrastructure build-out poses a strategic challenge to the West, which is betting on innovation in nuclear to keep pace. The future of AI may be decided by who can build power plants the fastest.
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July 31, 2025

How Distributed Compute Could Solve AI's Energy Crisis, w/ the CEO of Akash

The People's AI

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Energy is the New Scarcity. The race for AI supremacy is a race for power. Platforms like Akash that efficiently harness distributed, underutilized energy offer the only scalable alternative to the centralized model's impending energy crisis.
  2. The Tech is Maturing Rapidly. Asynchronous training and ZK-proofs (championed by projects like Jensen) are making permissionless global compute networks a reality. The performance gap with centralized systems is closing fast.
  3. The Mainstream is Buying In. A confluence of academic acceptance (at conferences like ICML) and favorable government policy (the White House's pro-open-source stance) is creating powerful tailwinds. The narrative has shifted from if decentralized AI is possible to how it will be implemented.
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July 31, 2025

The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. RLVR is the New SOTA for Solvable Problems: For tasks with clear right answers (code, math), RLVR is the state-of-the-art training method. The community is focused on scaling it, while RLHF remains the domain of fuzzy, human-preference problems.
  2. The Future is Search-Driven: GPT-4o’s heavy reliance on search is not a bug; it’s a feature. The hardest problem is no longer giving models tools, but training them to learn when to use them.
  3. Agents Need More Than Skills: The next leap in AI requires training for strategy, abstraction, and calibration. The goal is an AI that doesn’t just answer questions but efficiently plans its own work without wasting compute.
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July 31, 2025

China Open-Source, Compute Arms Race, Reordering Global Trade | BG2 w/ Bill Gurley and Brad Gerstner

Bg2 Pod

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. China's Open-Source Models are Winning on Price & Performance. Chinese models offer ~90% of the intelligence of top US proprietary models for a fraction of the cost, driving massive global adoption and threatening to commoditize the model layer. An American open-source champion is desperately needed to compete.
  2. The "Cost is No Object" Compute Buildout is Reshaping the Market. A handful of private companies are spending at a loss to capture market share, fueled by VC. This creates a "sport of kings" dynamic that public companies can't match and makes pick-and-shovel players like Nvidia the biggest winners.
  3. The US Tariff Strategy is Working. Contrary to consensus, the administration's tariff gambit has secured favorable trade deals with the EU and Japan, generating hundreds of billions in revenue without causing significant consumer inflation, and setting the stage for a major renegotiation with China.
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July 31, 2025

Health Tech Founders: The Future of Care Is Personalized, Proactive—and AI-Powered

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Biology is the ultimate API for AI. The most impactful AI will be fed not just digital data but real-world biological signals. Companies are building the infrastructure to bring a user's biology online, turning abstract health data into a constant, actionable feed.
  2. Engagement metrics are being rewritten. Forget Daily Active Users. The new model is "intense, intentional engagement" during periods of need. Growth is a function of trust and real-world impact, where the best champions are users who have been genuinely helped.
  3. AI's role is augmentation, not automation. The goal isn't to replace doctors or therapists but to empower them. By translating noise into signal, AI lets human experts skip the data-sifting and focus on what they do best: solving problems.
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July 30, 2025

AI Content and the War for Your Attention

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI is an attention-polluting machine. The primary challenge for social platforms will soon be managing the tidal wave of AI-generated "slop" designed to hijack algorithms, which risks alienating users entirely.
  2. The future of social is private. The psychological burden of being a micro-celebrity in a digital panopticon is pushing users away from public feeds and into smaller, trusted, and often monetized group chats.
  3. Attention mining’s endgame is total immersion. With phones saturated, the commercial logic of adtech demands new frontiers. VR is the path to monetizing waking hours, and Neuralink is the one to monetize dreams.
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July 30, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 124 - Backprop / Tensorplex / Dojo (sn52) $TAO

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trading is Training. Every dTAO trade is a direct vote on the value of an AI service, making traders active participants in steering the Bittensor network's intelligence and resource allocation.
  2. Human Feedback is the Moat. To advance, frontier AI needs subjective human preference data. Decentralized systems like Dojo (SN52) can provide this at scale, creating a crucial data pipeline that can’t be easily replicated.
  3. Predictability Breeds Value. The most successful decentralized networks (like Bitcoin) thrive on trust and predictability. Subnets that arbitrarily change rules risk alienating their miners and undermining the long-term health of the entire ecosystem.
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Crypto Podcasts

March 24, 2025

Live From DAS: JitoSOL, Staked ETFs, and the Future of Solana Governance | Lucas Bruder

0xResearch

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Regulatory clarity is improving, with a potential shift towards more constructive dialogue between regulators and the crypto industry.
  2. Staked ETFs are on the horizon, offering investors a superior product compared to existing non-staking ETFs.
  3. Solana's governance is evolving but requires further development to ensure adequate staker representation and participation.
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March 24, 2025

What It Takes To Build In Crypto | Stani Kulechov & Jack O'Holleran

Empire

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Building in crypto presents unique challenges related to novel tech, tokenomics, and community dynamics.
  2. Successful founders must balance long-term vision with the fast-paced, narrative-driven nature of the market.
  3. Capital efficiency is becoming increasingly important, with community fundraising offering a powerful alternative to traditional VC rounds.
  4. Crypto founders face a triple threat: building the product, managing tokenomics, and running a community like a rock band. Buckle up.
  5. Tokens can be a blessing and a curse.  Nail the community aspect and you’ve got a rocket. Mess it up and it’s a dumpster fire.
  6. Raise smart, not big. Find investors who get it, not just those who write checks.  Community rounds might be your secret weapon.
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March 24, 2025

Why Privacy Matters For Solana | Yannik Schrade

Lightspeed

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  1. Archium represents a shift from basic transactional privacy to a more robust and versatile approach leveraging encrypted shared state, paving the way for complex applications on Solana.
  2. Archium’s stateless design and integration with Solana through CPI calls provide a seamless development experience and ensure efficiency.
  3. The Archium token incentivizes network participation and enables a dynamic supply and demand mechanism for computing power, while computations are paid for in SOL.
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March 21, 2025

Crypto Is At An Inflection Point | Ryan Connor

Lightspeed

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. The crypto market is at a pivotal moment, poised for a significant influx of institutional capital pending regulatory clarity.
  • 2. Incumbent players, particularly in Layer 1 blockchains and certain DeFi applications, are well-positioned to benefit from this growth.
  • 3. Stablecoins represent a profitable but competitive landscape, with opportunities for disruption as net interest margins get compressed.
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March 20, 2025

Data Deep Dive: Are Memecoins Dead? | Analyst Round Table

0xResearch

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1.  Memecoins, despite a decline in activity, are far from dead and continue to drive substantial revenue on several blockchains.
  • 2.  Solana faces challenges related to brand perception and governance mechanisms, highlighting the need for careful balancing of stakeholder interests.
  • 3.  The lines between DeFi and TradFi are blurring, with both sides vying for market share and experimenting with different partnership and competitive models.
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March 19, 2025

How Long Will This Bear Market Last? | EP 72

Good Game Podcast

Crypto

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Despite short-term market volatility influenced by factors like tariff discussions, the underlying economy appears healthy, presenting a potentially bullish outlook for Bitcoin.
  • 2. RWA and Trafi represent significant growth areas in crypto, but the rationale behind permissioned blockchains needs further examination.
  • 3. AI continues to rapidly evolve, with vibe coding and localized LLMs poised to democratize app development and enhance user experiences.
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