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AI Podcasts

June 19, 2025

Inside a Billion Dollar Company Using AI to Supercharge Marketing & Sales

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Data is Your Edge: Proprietary data and sophisticated enrichment are becoming the most valuable assets, enabling superior AI-driven personalization and competitive advantage.
  2. Brand is Bedrock: In an increasingly automated world, a strong, trustworthy brand that delivers a human-centric experience will be the ultimate differentiator and source of customer loyalty.
  3. Orchestrate, Don't Just Operate: Marketing leaders must become master orchestrators of diverse AI tools and data systems, fostering deep collaboration between sales, marketing, and product to deliver seamless customer journeys.
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June 18, 2025

Hash Rate - Ep 118 - Siam Kidd of DSV $TAO Hedge Fund

Hash Rate pod - Bitcoin, AI, DePIN, DeFi

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. TAO's Asymmetric Upside: Bitensor is presented as a once-in-a-generation investment, with institutional demand poised to significantly reprice TAO.
  2. Subnets are AI Startups: View subnets as individual AI startups; their success will drive TAO's value, but their tokenomics mean TAO itself is the primary value accrual mechanism for large price moves.
  3. Liquidity is King (for Subnets): The growth of subnet valuations and broader participation hinges on solving liquidity depth issues within subnet pools.
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June 19, 2025

SN9 IOTA :: Bittensor :: competinng with ... Bittensor @ Louvre

Opentensor Foundation

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace the Chaos: Bittensor's "test-in-production" philosophy, fueled by adversarial miner behavior, is its superpower, driving rapid iteration and robust protocol development.
  2. Decentralized AI at Scale is Here: IOTA's distributed training approach for trillion-parameter models, coupled with innovative ownership models (like the "alpha token"), signals a shift towards democratized AI.
  3. The Network is the Product: Inter-subnet collaboration (e.g., Data Universe feeding IOTA) is creating a powerful, self-sustaining AI development ecosystem within Bittensor.
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June 18, 2025

subnet tokens on bittenor are the next ethereum ico boom

Ventura Labs

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Asymmetric Opportunity: BitTensor subnets provide exposure to AI innovation comparable to billion-dollar startups but at a fraction of their market caps.
  2. Volatility is a Feature, Not a Bug: Expect significant price swings, reminiscent of early crypto. The long-term potential can dwarf initial entry points.
  3. The Access Arbitrage: The current complexity of the BitTensor ecosystem creates an "early bird" advantage for those who can navigate it, potentially leading to outsized returns.
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June 17, 2025

Oxford Professor: "AIs are strange new minds"

Machine Learning Street Talk

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. AI's Reality Hack: Supervised learning allows AIs to understand the world via language alone, a game-changer forcing us to rethink intelligence beyond sensory input.
  2. The Autonomy Trap: The rise of agentic, personalized AIs that act for us threatens unforeseen systemic chaos and could amplify individuals' most dangerous beliefs.
  3. Our Faustian Pact with AI: We're trading authenticity and control for AI-driven convenience, risking a "gradual disempowerment" where human agency is systematically diminished.
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June 17, 2025

Harry Dewhirst: What If the Physical World Had an API? — 375ai, DePIN, and Real-Time Data for AI

Delphi Digital

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. 375AI’s targeted deployment in high-value zones yields monetizable data from the outset, sidestepping the "build it and they will come" pitfall common in DePIN.
  2. For real-world sensor networks, processing data locally on devices is paramount for user privacy, regulatory compliance, and operational efficiency.
  3. AI models, especially LLMs, are hungry for real-time, high-fidelity data about the physical environment, creating a massive opportunity for networks like 375AI.
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June 16, 2025

AI is Revolutionizing Web Security - Bots, Agents, & Real-Time Defense

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Embrace Nuance: AI traffic isn't monolithic. Develop granular controls to allow beneficial AI while blocking malicious actors, understanding that AI can be a customer.
  2. Layer Your Defenses: Combine traditional methods with modern fingerprinting and identity verification, preparing for a future where AI analyzes traffic in real time.
  3. Context is King: Security decisions must be deeply integrated with application logic to avoid harming user experience or revenue.
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June 16, 2025

AI Model's Adaptability & Real World Potential

Latent Space

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. **Adaptability is King:** The model’s capacity to "course correct" and "power through" challenges is a pivotal advancement, promising more robust AI.
  2. **Real-World Agents Incoming:** This enhanced model is poised to accelerate the development of AI agents capable of practical, impactful tasks.
  3. **Hands-On for Breakthroughs:** The true potential will be realized as developers dive in, experiment, and translate these new capabilities into innovative applications.
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June 16, 2025

AI Will Bring Billions of Capital On-Chain — Here's How

The DCo Podcast

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. Web2 Leads the Charge: Anticipate major Web2 companies leveraging their user base and trust to be the primary drivers bringing AI-powered capital on-chain initially.
  2. Agents are the Future: AI agents will be the killer app for crypto, finally delivering applications with mainstream utility and revenue potential.
  3. Parallel Evolution: The growth of AI in crypto will see Web2 institutional adoption and native crypto AI agent development advance simultaneously, creating a compounding effect on innovation and capital inflow.
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Crypto Podcasts

April 29, 2025

Would you take Bitcoin over 5 years or random altcoins?

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Altcoin Asymmetry: Lower-cap altcoins offer higher potential percentage gains (3-4x) with less required capital inflow compared to Bitcoin.
  2. Bitcoin's Gravity: Bitcoin's massive size makes large multiple gains (like 3x) significantly harder, requiring vast capital injections.
  3. Liquidity is King: Your bet hinges on future macro conditions; high liquidity environments tend to disproportionately benefit riskier, less liquid altcoins.
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April 29, 2025

Bits + Bips Live: Crypto, Macro, Tariffs, Stablecoins, and More

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. **The Trump Put is Real:** Market reactions demonstrably curb aggressive tariff policies; expect continued volatility but likely avoidance of worst-case tariff scenarios as Trump needs stable markets.
  2. **Bitcoin Treasury Flywheel Spins Faster:** Expect more MicroStrategy clones globally, leveraging debt and equity markets to acquire Bitcoin. Monitor NAV premiums closely – their collapse is the model's Achilles' heel.
  3. **Bitcoin's Narrative Strengthens:** Bitcoin's recent decoupling and resilience amid macro turmoil bolsters its digital gold thesis, attracting attention even from skeptics, while altcoins struggle to keep pace this cycle.
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April 28, 2025

Bitcoin’s Macro Status, Ethereum’s Cultural Reset, and Solana’s Growth Risk | Jon Charbonneau

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Bitcoin Stands Alone: Recognized globally, Bitcoin operates in its own macro league, detached from altcoin tech narratives.
  2. Ethereum's Redemption Arc?: A pivot to user needs and L1 scaling is underway, but Ethereum must deliver concrete performance upgrades to compete effectively.
  3. Execution is King: Solana leads the speed race but faces valuation/fee risks. The future favors chains offering the best, most sovereign execution environment, with modular plays like Celestia betting on a hyper-scaled world.
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April 28, 2025

BlackRock's Crypto Strategy In 2025 With Samara Cohen

Empire

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. IBIT's Success Validates the Bridge: The Bitcoin ETP proved massive latent demand exists for accessing crypto via familiar, regulated wrappers, bringing many new investors into the fold.
  2. Tokenization Targets Infrastructure First: Forget tokenizing illiquid JPEGs (for now); the real institutional action is using blockchains to fix inefficient TradFi plumbing, starting with cash and collateral.
  3. Data & Standards are The Next Hurdle: Broader institutional adoption beyond Bitcoin requires solving the crypto data, standards, and valuation puzzle to enable reliable analysis and indexing.
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April 28, 2025

Crypto's Fastest Growing App: Is Pumpfun's Revenue Sustainable?

Lightspeed

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Revenue Reality Check: Pumpfun's impressive revenue warrants investigation; sustainability is questionable if heavily reliant on bot activity or if it operates like a high-loss "casino" for users.
  2. Platform Duality: Pumpfun serves as both a backend launchpad discovered via external platforms and a direct trading venue, with ~70% of pre-launch volume happening on-site.
  3. High-Risk Environment: The platform operates like a "less fair casino," meaning users should anticipate significant risk and potential for loss.
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April 28, 2025

Do VC tokens actually have value, or are they leaching off retail investors?

The Gwart Show

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Potential has Price: Markets value the option for a token to capture future cash flows, not just current ones. Dismissing tokens without active fees is shortsighted.
  2. Fee Activation Isn't Genesis: Turning on token fees typically causes a moderate price bump (15-20%), proving the market already factored in this possibility.
  3. Governance is Power: The right to govern, including the right to implement future economics, constitutes a tangible source of value recognized by the market.
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