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AI Podcasts

December 11, 2025

No Priors Ep. 143 | With ElevenLabs Co-Founder Mati Staniszewski

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

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Shift: The future of human-computer interaction is voice-first, moving from static content to dynamic, personalized, and agentic experiences.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: Defensibility in AI is increasingly found in deep product layers, specialized architectural breakthroughs (especially in audio), and robust ecosystems, not just raw model scale.
  3. The "So What?": Over the next 6-12 months, expect to see significant advancements in proactive AI agents, immersive media, and personalized education, with voice as the core interface.
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December 10, 2025

The Unicorn Founder Who Delegated Everything.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The AI-Delegation Revolution is Here: Start experimenting with AI tools like ChatGPT for delegation now. The future involves proactive machine assistants deeply integrated into your workflow.
  2. Builders & Investors: Focus on "How to Delegate": The biggest constraint isn't finding assistants, but teaching clients how to delegate effectively. Tools and services that educate delegators will win.
  3. Reclaim Your Ambition: By offloading the mundane, you free up mental bandwidth to think bigger, pursue more ambitious goals, and ultimately, control your most valuable asset: time.
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December 12, 2025

AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Strategic Implication: The AI bubble is inevitable. Focus on defensible positions: deep product integration, proprietary data, and distribution, rather than just raw model performance.
  2. Builder/Investor Note: The opportunity lies in productizing AI for specific "jobs to be done" within niche industries, creating intuitive UIs, and building in validation, not just building another foundational model.
  3. The "So What?": We're about to figure out the true "job to be done" for many industries. AI will unbundle existing businesses by exposing their hidden inefficiencies or non-obvious defensibilities.
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December 13, 2025

The Mathematical Foundations of Intelligence [Professor Yi Ma]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Parsimony and Self-Consistency: Adopt these principles as guiding forces in AI design. Build models that not only compress data efficiently but also maintain a high degree of self-consistency to ensure accurate and reliable world models.
  2. Focus on Abstraction, Not Just Memorization: Prioritize developing systems that can abstract knowledge beyond mere memorization. Move beyond surface-level compression and aim for models that can discover and reason about the underlying principles of the world.
  3. Understand and Reproduce the Brain’s Mechanisms: Focus on understanding and reproducing the mechanisms in the human brain that enable deductive reasoning, logical thinking, and the creation of new scientific theories to truly push AI to the next level.
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December 10, 2025

Nav Kumar: Trishool, AI Alignment, Subnet 23, Mechanistic Interpretability, Rogue LLMs | Ep. 75

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Prioritize AI Safety Research:** Invest aggressively in understanding and mitigating AI risks to safeguard humanity against potential rogue LLMs.
  2. **Support Decentralized AI Alignment:** Champion decentralized platforms like Bit Tensor and initiatives like Trishool that promote open and transparent AI alignment research.
  3. **Embrace Mechanistic Interpretability:** Drive the development of tools that enable us to understand and control the internal workings of AI models, ensuring alignment with human values.
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December 10, 2025

Everyone Needs an Assistant. Here’s Why.

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Delegation as a Foundational Skill: Whether you leverage AI or human support, mastering delegation is paramount for unlocking personal and professional potential.
  2. Prioritize Time Ownership: Recognize time as your most valuable asset and design your life and calendar around your highest goals.
  3. Start Small, Scale Intentionally: Begin with affordable AI tools and gradually incorporate human assistance as your budget and needs evolve, building trust and compounding leverage over time.
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December 8, 2025

Building The Chip That Could Unlock AGI | Naveen Rao

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Embrace Analog:** Explore and invest in analog computing solutions to overcome the energy limitations of current digital AI systems.
  2. **Prioritize Causality:** Shift focus towards AI models that incorporate time and causality, potentially unlocking more advanced and human-like intelligence.
  3. **Support Hardware Innovation:** Invest in and foster startups like Unconventional AI that are tackling fundamental challenges in AI hardware.
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December 8, 2025

Why AI Will Have To Run On Blockchains

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Blockchain is essential for AI to ensure censorship resistance and uninterrupted accessibility.
  2. Trustworthy AI agents require on-chain governance to manage assets securely and transparently.
  3. AI agents can drastically accelerate blockchain adoption and optimize corporate processes.
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December 7, 2025

Tensor Logic "Unifies" AI Paradigms [Pedro Domingos]

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Tensor Logic provides a unified framework for AI, bridging the gap between symbolic AI and deep learning, offering improved reasoning, transparency, and efficiency.
  2. The language addresses the limitations of current AI systems, enabling reliable deduction and facilitating structure learning through gradient descent, paving the way for more interpretable and controllable AI.
  3. Tensor Logic has the potential to advance AI education by providing a single language for teaching the entire gamut of AI. Its gradual adoption path allows developers to integrate it into existing workflows.
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Crypto Podcasts

June 13, 2025

Takeaways from the SEC Roundtable and Privy Acquisition | Weekly Roundup

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Regulatory Thaw: The SEC’s new leadership signals a more accommodating stance on crypto, potentially unlocking significant growth for DeFi in the US.
  2. Market Structure Evolution: Tokenization is increasingly viewed as the key to modernizing capital markets, with on-chain IPOs and improved secondary market liquidity on the horizon.
  3. Infrastructure is King: Acquisitions like Privy by Stripe highlight the race to build and control the foundational layers of the crypto economy, especially around wallets and stablecoins.
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June 13, 2025

Institutions Pour Billions into Crypto! Stripe’s Bold Move & Genius Act Explained

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Institutional FOMO is Real: Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs are magnets for capital, and Circle's IPO success signals massive pent-up demand.
  2. Regulation is Maturing: The Genius Act is poised to legitimize stablecoins, while the Clarity Act could reshape token classifications.
  3. Adoption Accelerates: Stripe's crypto acquisitions and Poly Market's X integration show crypto moving beyond niche use cases.
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June 13, 2025

Standard Chartered: The Bull Case For Solana | Geoff Kendrick

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Solana's Next Act is Crucial: Current memecoin activity, while impressive, is viewed by institutions like Standard Chartered as less sustainable than diversified utility; a pivot to tokenized equities or social is key for long-term valuation.
  2. Perception Battles Performance: Ethereum's established "trustworthiness" gives it an institutional edge, even if Solana offers superior tech for certain applications. Solana must overcome its "memecoin" image to attract serious TradFi.
  3. Near-Term Headwinds for Solana Relative to Ethereum: Kendrick suggests Ethereum might outperform Solana in the near term (though both underperform Bitcoin) as Solana navigates its transition phase, while Ethereum benefits from incumbency in stablecoins and tokenized RWAs.
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June 12, 2025

The Digital Payment Race That Will Reshape the World

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Currency Cold War:** A "currency conflict" is unfolding, with the winner set to define the financial backbone of the next-gen internet and global commerce.
  2. **Stablecoins vs. The State:** USD stablecoins are pitched as the West's best bet for the internet's future currency, directly competing with state-backed digital currencies like China's e-CNY.
  3. **Agent-Powered Internet:** The dream is an internet where AI agents, fueled by ultra-low-cost stablecoin transactions, manage our digital lives, moving incentives away from human attention.
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June 12, 2025

The Last Mile Problem For Stablecoins | Analyst Round Table

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Solve Real Friction:** The "last-mile" challenge—seamlessly converting stablecoins to local cash in emerging markets—remains the critical bottleneck and prime opportunity for stablecoin protocols.
  2. **Moats are Real:** Overcoming established players like Tron requires more than just better tech or lower fees; it demands superior distribution and user migration strategies.
  3. **Align Incentives:** Morpho's structural changes offer a compelling model for aligning team, investor, and token holder interests, potentially setting a new standard for Web3 projects.
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June 12, 2025

Hivemind: Circle Valuation, Pump.Fun Token & What We’re Bullish

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Deficit Tailwinds: Persistent global fiscal deficits are expected to continue fueling appreciation in risk assets, including cryptocurrencies.
  2. Stablecoin Tsunami: Stablecoins are not just a crypto niche but a fundamental disruptor to the traditional banking system, with significant investment flowing into leaders like Circle, despite valuation concerns.
  3. App-Layer Alpha: Value is increasingly found in specific applications (like Pump.Fun) and companies leveraging crypto (like Galaxy Digital's AI/crypto blend), sometimes even diverting attention from base-layer L1 tokens.
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