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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 12, 2025

Why ETH Might Be the Most Mispriced Asset in the World

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH's Narrative is Shifting: From "tech stock" to "digital oil" and "store of value," clarifying its multifaceted value.
  2. Supply Squeeze Imminent: Capped issuance plus rising demand driven by network activity and institutional adoption points to a strong supply-demand imbalance.
  3. Massive Re-rating Potential: If ETH achieves a similar status to other global reserve assets, its price could see exponential growth from current levels.
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June 11, 2025

How RLUSD Will Join USDT & USDC

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **RLUSD Rising:** Ripple's ambition is clear: make RLUSD a top 3-4 stablecoin by leveraging strategic acquisitions for mass distribution, potentially issuing billions through platforms like Hidden Road.
  2. **Acquisition = Distribution:** Ripple is effectively purchasing its market share by acquiring businesses like Hidden Road and Metaco, creating an embedded network to push RLUSD adoption.
  3. **Stablecoin Selects:** The future stablecoin landscape will likely feature 5-7 major players, not just two, and Ripple is aggressively positioning RLUSD to be one of them.
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June 11, 2025

Crypto's Next Era: TradFi IPOs or Hyperliquid, PumpFun & Solana?

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. TradFi Wants In: The success of Circle's IPO demonstrates a massive, untapped demand from traditional markets for regulated crypto exposure, potentially paving the way for a wave of crypto IPOs.
  2. ETH's Dilemma: While Ethereum is the undisputed settlement layer for stablecoins and RWAs, the direct translation of this utility to ETH asset appreciation remains a critical question, hinging on increased on-chain economic velocity.
  3. Apps are Eating: Solana's ecosystem, with stars like Hyperliquid and Pump.fun, shows that "fat applications" can generate enormous revenue and user engagement, potentially capturing more value than the underlying L1s.
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June 11, 2025

What Is Flipcash? | Ted Livingston

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Digital Cash, Real Utility: Flipcash aims to make digital money feel like physical cash—instant, easy, and universally acceptable, starting with a seamless USDC experience.
  2. Solana Speed is Key: The app's core "wow" factor of instant transactions relies heavily on Solana's performance, underscoring the blockchain's capability for consumer-facing applications.
  3. Onboarding Solved?: Requiring a small purchase for an account, immediately offset by a USDC bonus, tackles the "empty wallet" problem, driving immediate engagement and demonstrating value.
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June 11, 2025

Former Fed Official & Stablecoin Expert On The Future Of Money | Robert Bench

Forward Guidance

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Card Networks Disrupted**: Stablecoins are poised to dismantle the high-fee "tax" imposed by traditional card payment systems, with innovators like Stripe leading the charge.
  2. **Internet Re-Incentivized**: Ultra-efficient stablecoin networks (like Radius's vision) could replace the ad-driven "attention economy" with a new model of direct value exchange for digital services, driven by AI agents.
  3. **Currency Cold War Heats Up**: The race for digital currency dominance is on, with USD stablecoins, China's e-CNY, and potentially Bitcoin vying to be the backbone of the next-gen global economy, likely leading to fewer, more standardized global currencies.
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June 10, 2025

Wall Street Loves Circle, Crypto's Next Bullish Catalyst?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Appetite is Insatiable: Investor demand for any crypto-related exposure is immense, capable of pumping stocks like Circle's despite questionable financials.
  2. Fundamentals Still (Should) Matter: Circle's low margins, high costs, and interest rate sensitivity paint a precarious picture, a "terrible company" according to one host, even if its stock moons.
  3. Hype Cycle Peaks & Troughs: The current frenzy across crypto-linked stocks (Circle, potential Ripple IPO, Coinbase, MSTR) signals significant hype, which historically precedes market corrections.
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