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AI Podcasts

March 20, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 101 - Bittensor Fund I: Investing in Subnets

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. The Bittensor subnet ecosystem offers potentially asymmetric investment opportunities, similar to early Ethereum or DeFi Summer.
  • 2. Simplified user interfaces and cross-chain bridges are crucial for attracting mainstream capital.
  • 3. The convergence of new capital, increasing subnet adoption, and the rise of decentralized AI position Bittensor for potentially explosive growth.
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March 19, 2025

Illia Polosukhin on The Upcoming Explosion of User-Owned AI

The Rollup

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. User-owned AI offers a powerful alternative to centralized models, prioritizing user control, data privacy, and personalized experiences.
  • 2. Near Protocol is building the necessary infrastructure and protocols to support the development, deployment, and monetization of user-owned AI agents.
  • 3. The future of AI and crypto will see the rise of useful agents that can perform real-world tasks, creating new opportunities for developers and users alike.
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March 19, 2025

npm install Agents — with Sunil Pai and Rita Kozlov (VP AI) of Cloudflare

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Cloudflare is leveraging its existing Durable Objects technology to create a compelling platform for developing and deploying AI agents.
  • 2. The future of AI agents hinges on solving challenges related to trust, practical applications, and accessibility for non-technical users.
  • 3. Cloudflare Agents is poised to address these challenges by offering a robust, scalable platform with features like human-in-the-loop, scheduling, and future support for multi-agent communication and enhanced workflows.
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March 18, 2025

The Gap Between Humans and Machines Is ___

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Robustness, not just accuracy, is crucial for LLMs to gain trust and widespread adoption.
  • 2. Human feedback should be used strategically and granularly to mitigate biases and optimize model behavior effectively.
  • 3. Dynamic, evolving benchmarks tailored to specific tasks are necessary to truly evaluate the evolving capabilities of increasingly sophisticated AI systems.
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March 15, 2025

Building the Next Generation of Conversational AI

a16z

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. AI development requires balancing technical rigor with qualitative user feedback to create truly engaging experiences.
  • 2. The future of conversational AI lies in eliminating transcription, allowing direct audio processing for faster, more natural interactions.
  • 3. AI companions are poised to become a new computing interface, emphasizing natural, human-like interactions over traditional utility.
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March 14, 2025

Snipd: The AI Podcast App for Learning — with CEO Kevin Ben-Smith

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Snipd is transforming podcast consumption by focusing on knowledge retention and learning through AI-enhanced features.
  • 2. The app's evolution reflects a shift from social sharing to a more personalized, learning-centric experience.
  • 3. Future developments include voice interfaces and AI-driven discovery, promising a more interactive and tailored user experience.
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March 13, 2025

[Lightning Pod] Evals: How to Improve AI Consistently — with Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar

Latent Space

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Evals are essential for moving AI applications from demo to production, requiring systematic measurement and data literacy.
  • 2. Teaching evals involves hands-on, practical approaches to ensure understanding and application of stable, evergreen techniques.
  • 3. Custom data annotation tools and careful validation of LLMs as judges are crucial for effective evals.
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March 13, 2025

Vibecoding is Here - How AI is Changing How We Build Online

a16z

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Vibecoding democratizes software development, enabling a broader range of users to create applications without traditional coding skills.
  • 2. The rapid growth of AI-powered tools highlights a significant demand for accessible software development solutions.
  • 3. Despite challenges, the potential for Vibecoding to transform how we build software is immense, with ongoing improvements expected to address current limitations.
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March 12, 2025

Maya Kannan: Geoeconomics, Economic Systems, AI Blockchain Governance, Innovation, Politics | Ep. 31

Ventura Labs

AI

Key Takeaways:

  • 1. Geoeconomics is reshaping global politics, requiring nations to align industries with strategic priorities.
  • 2. AI systems should be designed to learn from diverse environments, avoiding ideological biases.
  • 3. Consortium blockchains offer a path to decentralized governance, balancing private and public interests.
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Crypto Podcasts

May 31, 2025

LIVE Hivemind: Crypto Treasury Companies, Sui Hack & Solana’s New Consensus

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Treasury Tactics: The "treasury company" model is the new "low float, high FDV" game, but relies on continued premium valuations and favorable debt markets; watch out for stress when debt matures.
  2. Sui's Pragmatism: Sui’s handling of the Cetus hack signals that newer chains may prioritize decisive action and recovery over decentralization purity in crises, a trend likely to continue.
  3. Solana's Evolution: Solana’s major consensus upgrade, developed by former critics, showcases a pragmatic, engineering-first approach focused on performance and validator accessibility, potentially strengthening its L1 position.
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May 31, 2025

Where Crypto Meets AI with Chris Dixon & David George

a16z

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Crypto Delivers Utility: Stablecoins move trillions monthly, proving crypto's real-world value beyond speculation for fast, cheap global payments.
  2. AI Rewrites Web Economics: AI's direct-answer capability breaks the old ad-traffic model. Crypto offers tools to build the new economic "covenant" required.
  3. Bet on Category Kings: Tech markets are "winner-take-all." Focus on the dominant player in any credible category, especially those led by founders with unique, "earned secrets."
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May 30, 2025

The Solana Incubator: Finding Crypto's Next Breakthrough App | Emon Motamedi

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Build Real, Not Just Rallies: Prioritize long-term, sustainable businesses with tangible revenue models over chasing fleeting crypto trends.
  2. Utility Tokens Trump Speculation: Design tokens to solve core project problems or incentivize user behavior, not merely for market hype.
  3. Solana's Next Wave: Infrastructure for Reality: Leverage crypto as a backend for innovative solutions to real-world problems, targeting broader, non-crypto native audiences.
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May 28, 2025

Building a Trust Layer for Crypto AI Investing | Autonomous Investors Explained

The DCo Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Trust is Quantifiable: AI investors can build dynamic trust scores by systematically paper-trading community signals, effectively rewarding proven alpha generators.
  2. Beyond Wallet Snooping: "Social copy wallet" systems can unearth expert insights without needing direct access to individual wallet addresses, thus broadening the discoverable talent pool.
  3. Community as a Vetted Oracle: The collective intelligence of crypto communities, when filtered through a performance-based trust layer, can power sophisticated AI investment decisions.
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May 28, 2025

Has Ethereum Bottomed?

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. ETH: Trade the Chart, Doubt the Core. Ethereum’s technicals may offer a trading setup, but deep-seated skepticism about its fundamental delivery persists.
  2. Worldcoin Warning: The massive FDV and emission schedule for Worldcoin scream "sell pressure," making it a risky long-term hold despite any hype.
  3. Invest with Edge: Focus on revenue-generating altcoins and areas you understand; it's okay to miss out on trades where you lack a clear advantage.
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May 27, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 113 - TAOFu Subnet Seeds

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Fund Smarter, Not Harder: Tau's SNS tokens let Bittensor subnets raise capital by tokenizing a slice of future emissions, not their core alpha tokens, sidestepping immediate sell pressure.
  2. DTA Means Business: The Dynamic TAO model is a crucible, compelling Bittensor subnets to graduate from emission-chasers to product-driven, revenue-focused ventures.
  3. Unlocking Subnet Investing: SNS tokens, via LayerZero, promise to simplify access to subnet investments, potentially onboarding a wave of new capital and users to the Bittensor ecosystem from other chains.
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