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AI Podcasts

January 15, 2026

Ben & Marc: Why Everything Is About to Get 10x Bigger

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from software eating the world to AI reinventing the computer means every existing market cap is a floor.
  2. Prioritize the non-fungible creator by providing monetization tools that bypass legacy gatekeepers.
  3. We are entering a period of asymmetric payoffs where the art of picking original thinkers matters more than historical data.
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January 13, 2026

Paul Rosolie: Uncontacted Tribes in the Amazon Jungle | Lex Fridman Podcast #489

Lex Fridman

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: Biological Sovereignty. As global systems destabilize, the Amazon remains the most critical piece of biological infrastructure on the planet.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Support Jungle Keepers. Direct capital to organizations that convert loggers into rangers to secure land concessions.
  3. The Amazon is a finite asset under active siege. Protecting it requires a blend of primitive survival skills and high-tech surveillance over the next 18 months.
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January 12, 2026

Jensen Huang says robots will have human capabilities this year! The Robots at CES Had.. Other Plans

Turing Post

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: As generative AI masters simulation, the physical world becomes a high-fidelity playground for software.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Invest in the "brain" layer rather than the "limb" layer. Software that can generalize across different hardware forms will capture the most value.
  3. The next decade belongs to embodied AI that reasons in real time. If you are waiting for the hardware to look perfect before paying attention, you will miss the moment the software takes over the physical world.
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January 12, 2026

Your MCP Server is Bad (and you should feel bad) - Jeremiah Lowin, Prefect

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Pivot: Context as Product. We are moving from raw data transport to opinionated context delivery.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Prune your endpoints. Remove any tool that requires more than one step to achieve a business result.
  3. The Bottom Line: The winners of the agentic era will be those who build the best Agentic Interface Guidelines.
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January 12, 2026

OpenAI + @Temporalio : Building Durable, Production Ready Agents - Cornelia Davis, Temporal

AI Engineer

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The industry is moving from "Agent as a Script" to "Agent as a Durable Service" where state management is handled by the infrastructure.
  2. Wrap your existing API tools in the `activity_as_tool` function to gain automatic retries and execution history.
  3. Reliability is the only moat in the agentic economy. If your agent cannot survive a server restart during a three-day task, it is not ready for the enterprise.
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January 13, 2026

How Ladder Became #1 Strength Training App

Invest Like The Best

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Trend: The move from fragmented content libraries to integrated health systems where AI synthesizes biomarkers and movement.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Construct internal LLM tools to categorize qualitative feedback. This turns thousands of raw reviews into a precise roadmap.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building a $100M ARR consumer app requires mastery of both growth loops and product retention. Solve for the daily habit to win the long game.
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January 13, 2026

Ben Horowitz on Investing in AI: AI Bubbles, Economic Impact, and VC Acceleration

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from general-purpose AI to specialized application layers. As foundation models commoditize, value migrates to the "fat tail" of human-centric complexity.
  2. Prioritize building or investing in "DNA of the future" companies that incumbents must eventually acquire to survive. Focus on winning the "point of attack" by staying deep in the technical details.
  3. We are in a unique market where demand growth justifies high valuations. Success over the next year depends on identifying founders who are the absolute best in the world at one specific thing.
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January 13, 2026

It's Time To Build

a16z

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Shift: Infrastructure Invisibility. As core technologies become background noise, value moves from the pipes to the unique experiences built on top of them.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Reject Mediocrity. Audit your product for average features and replace them with high-conviction improvements that competitors are too lazy to attempt.
  3. The Bottom Line: Building is the only way to ensure the future happens. If you do not create the next version of reality, you are stuck living in an outdated vision.
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January 13, 2026

Nothing’s Carl Pei on Building a $1B Smartphone Company and Why He Thinks About Death Every Week

The Generalist

AI
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from hardware specs to emotional hardware where brand identity and OS-native AI become the primary moats.
  2. Prioritize arbitrage opportunities in marketing by finding underpriced attention on platforms like TikTok before they become crowded.
  3. Success in mature markets requires a Genghis Khan method: be a talent scout, stay open-minded to global supply chains, and use design to win the emotional battle for the consumer's pocket.
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Crypto Podcasts

January 28, 2026

LIVE: BITGO IPO, HIP-3, KNTQ | 0xResearch

0xResearch

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. Capital no longer distinguishes between AI stocks and rare metals. Investors treat these as a single risk-on bucket settled on-chain.
  2. Monitor Hyperliquid deployers. Identify protocols moving from passive yield to active market-making to capture the next commodity rotation.
  3. The next year will favor platforms providing access to diverse asset classes. Pure crypto protocols must adapt or lose mindshare to trade everything venues.
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January 26, 2026

Metals Alt Season, Catchup Trades, Bitcoin vs Gold, Crypto Is Dead

1000x Podcast

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The Macro Transition: Hard Asset Migration. As fiat currencies lose purchasing power, capital moves into finite assets, starting with Gold and Bitcoin before trickling down to Silver and Ethereum.
  2. The Tactical Edge: Buy the Laggard. Identify assets with strong fundamentals that have underperformed the market leader by more than 30%.
  3. The Bottom Line: The catchup trade is the most profitable strategy when the primary leaders are consolidating.
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January 24, 2026

Gold Sets the Bar, But Bitcoin Can Catch Up. Here’s How: Bits + Bips

Unchained

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The institutionalization of Bitcoin has temporarily sacrificed its digital gold status for liquidity, creating a massive opportunity for those who can stomach the volatility before the next decoupling.
  2. Monitor Japanese government bond yields as a leading indicator for global risk tolerance.
  3. Bitcoin is currently a liquidity sponge, not a bunker. Expect it to follow the Trump Put and tech earnings until its volatility profile mirrors a currency rather than a speculative stock.
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January 23, 2026

The Intersection of AI and Crypto: What Worked, What Didn’t, and What’s Next | Roundup

Bell Curve

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The market is moving from the "Compute Layer" to the "Agentic Layer." Owning the GPU is less valuable than owning the agent that controls the wallet.
  2. Build agent-first interfaces. Stop designing for human clicks and start structuring your data so an LLM can execute transactions on your behalf.
  3. The next 12 months belong to on-chain agents that handle treasury ops and commerce. The "decentralized GPU" narrative is dead. The "AI Agent with a bank account" narrative is just beginning.
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January 23, 2026

The “Quantum Threat” Behind Bitcoin’s Sudden Sell-Off

Bankless

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from global cooperation to regional protectionism is driving a capital outflow loop that favors hard assets over sovereign debt.
  2. Monitor the development of quantum-resistant signatures on alternative L1s to hedge against Bitcoin’s potential cryptographic obsolescence.
  3. The next year will be defined by the race to tokenize real-world assets and the struggle to maintain protocol relevance as TradFi giants enter the arena.
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January 22, 2026

DePIN’s Biggest New Deal: Valeo x NATIX | Alireza Ghods

Proof of Coverage Media

Crypto
Key Takeaways:
  1. The transition from digital-only AI to Physical AI requires a massive bridge of high-fidelity video data.
  2. Monitor DePIN projects that move from "map-to-earn" to "train-to-earn" for foundational models.
  3. NATIX is no longer just a mapping company; it is the data refinery for the next generation of autonomous machines.
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