Scaling AI: Energy, Privacy, Equity
The July 23, 2025 episode of This Past Weekend features Sam Altman outlining how frontier AI could surpass human cognition while straining energy grids and reshaping wealth distribution.
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AI Agents, Energy Bottlenecks, and Bitcoin Rails
In a July 10, 2025 Real Vision episode, macro investor Jordi Visser and host Raoul Pal argue that rapidly proliferating AI agents - hungry for chips and electricity - will displace mid-tier white-collar jobs and redirect trillions toward data-center infrastructure.
Decentralizing AI Commerce with Lightning
The April 28, 2025 episode of TFTC features Jim Carucci arguing that Bitcoin-denominated micro-payments can power autonomous AI agents.
Tariffs, AI, and Bitcoin in a De-Globalizing World
The April 28, 2025 episode of What Bitcoin Did features Mark Moss arguing that de-globalization and tariff-driven reshoring shift power toward decentralized money.
Fiat Strain and the Digital Reserve Transition
The April 27, 2025 episode of the Jordi Visser Podcast has Visser arguing that the post-1971 fiat regime is losing global trust. He explains how stablecoins, Bitcoin, and tokenized assets are merging with legacy finance to build a new monetary stack while AI transforms real-economy dynamics.
Bitcoin’s Role in an Accelerating AI Race
The April 22, 2025 episode of Bitcoin Magazine’s Bitcoin Policy Hour features Matthew Pines, Zach Shapiro, and Zach Cohen examining how near-term artificial-intelligence breakthroughs collide with geopolitics and monetary policy.
Autonomous AI Labs Upend the Pace of Discovery
The April 17, 2025 episode of FYI — For Your Innovation features Geoffrey von Maltzahn detailing how Lila couples AI, proprietary data, and fully automated laboratories to build “scientific super‑intelligence.”