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MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 75: This time, we talk with Howard Wu, the creator of the first legally compliant privacy stablecoin, who joins Adario Strange to reveal why private crypto transactions can now legally exist inside U.S. regulation. They also delve into how privacy coins actually work, why pairing privacy with regulated stablecoins like Circle's USDC (via USDCx) matters, and how this approach differs from earlier projects like Meta’s Libra.

The conversation also spans Big Tech and finance, including Howard's time at Google and Meta, why many crypto startups build in San Francisco instead of New York next to Wall Street, the role of investors like Coinbase, a16z, and Sequoia, and where crypto, AI, and regulation are heading next, from prediction markets to quantum computing, and Howard delivers a major Bitcoin prediction.

Guest websites: Aleo.org | Provable.com 

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MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 74: This time Adario Strange spoke to Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft’s venture capital arm, for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we’ve had on the channel. They dive into everything from the rise of AI and the push toward AGI, to the future of quantum computing, and new technologies are reshaping energy use, education, and even space itself.

Along the way, Michael shared insights on how Microsoft thinks about investing, and his candid take on the risks and opportunities ahead. From modular data centers to the global AI race in Asia and Europe, this interview is a deep dive into where the next wave of innovation might take us.

Guest website: M12.vc 

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This time Adario Strange spoke to Michael Stewart, Managing Partner at M12, Microsoft's venture capital arm, for one of the most wide-ranging conversations we've had on the channel. They dive into everything from the rise of AI and the push toward AGI, to the future of quantum computing, and new technologies are reshaping energy use, education, and even space itself.

Along the way, Michael shared insights on how Microsoft thinks about investing, and his candid take on the risks and opportunities ahead. From modular data centers to the global AI race in Asia and Europe, this interview is a deep dive into where the next wave of innovation might take us.

Guest website: M12.vc

MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 73: In this episode, Adario Strange speaks with Sean Neville, the co-founder of Circle.com (the company behind the USDC stablecoin) and founder of Catena Labs, a bold new startup helping AI agents use crypto to work for humans.

Neville takes us from his early tech days at Macromedia to the birth of Circle, sharing how USDC went from an experiment to a cornerstone of the global crypto economy. We dig into the big questions: What is a stablecoin, really? How will “AI money” change the way machines and people interact? And should governments even try to compete in the stablecoin space? This is a front-row look at the collision of finance, technology, and intelligence.

Guest website: CatenaLabs.com

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In this episode, Adario Strange speaks with Sean Neville, the co-founder of Circle.com (the company behind the USDC stablecoin) and founder of Catena Labs, a bold new startup helping AI agents use crypto to work for humans.

Neville takes us from his early tech days at Macromedia to the birth of Circle, sharing how USDC went from an experiment to a cornerstone of the global crypto economy. We dig into the big questions: What is a stablecoin, really? How will "AI money" change the way machines and people interact? And should governments even try to compete in the stablecoin space? This is a front-row look at the collision of finance, technology, and intelligence.

Guest website: CatenaLabs.com

MARS Magazine Podcast Ep. 72: Google and Yandex veteran Anna Veronika Dorogush joins Adario Strange to explain why her growing London-based startup, Recraft AI, is able to compete with tech giants like Adobe, how experienced designers can painlessly integrate AI into their workflow, and where AI design tools are most likely to dominate soon.

Then the two explore the world of European tech startups, a rapidly unfolding landscape of newcomers securing tens of millions of dollars in funding and even a few billion-dollar valuations, even while their U.S. counterparts get all the headlines. Finally, Anna and Adario discuss the outlook for human jobs, now that AI and robotics are becoming a reality that no corporate workplace can ignore.

Guest website: Recraft.ai

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Google and Yandex veteran Anna Veronika Dorogush joins Adario Strange to explain why her growing London-based startup, Recraft AI, is able to compete with tech giants like Adobe, how experienced designers can painlessly integrate AI into their workflow, and where AI design tools are most likely to dominate soon.

Then the two explore the world of European tech startups, a rapidly unfolding landscape of newcomers securing tens of millions of dollars in funding and even a few billion-dollar valuations, even while their U.S. counterparts get all the headlines. Finally, Anna and Adario discuss the outlook for human jobs, now that AI and robotics are becoming a reality that no corporate workplace can ignore.

Guest website: Recraft.ai

AI security expert Christopher "Tito" Sestito, the CEO and co-founder of Austin-based Hidden Layer, joins Adario Strange to uncover what's really happening in the world of AI when is comes to fighting hackers, malicious code, and threats from other AI systems.

Sestito has been working within the realm of cybersecurity for many years, but AI security presents new challenges, and we get into them, as well as discuss the threat of AI being harnessed via deepfakes, generative AI audio, and even social media to scam unsuspecting victims.

Guest website: HiddenLayer.com

When Google unveiled Veo 3 a few weeks ago, even AI insiders were shocked at just how realistic the AI-generated videos were. Additionally, some from the Hollywood elite were taken off guard by the tool's ability to generate convincing audio dialogue for its human characters. All the previous AI video tools were just the warm-up, this is the beginning of the real race to transform the movie business. 

In this episode, we've revisited seven of the elite AI video filmmakers and pioneers who have been helping us educate our audience and explain exactly how and why AI video will revolutionize the traditional film and video business. In this episode, we welcome back Dave Clark (co-founder of Promise Studios), Blaine Brown, Nem Perez (founder of Storyblocker), Ben Nash, Caleb Ward (co-founder of Curious Refuge), Michael Mitchell, and Andrew Gibbs.

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While OpenAI, Meta, Google, and others dominate the AI news, there's a rapidly growing wild west of open source AI software and developers also pushing the technology boundaries forward, sometimes in unexpected ways.

Manos Koukoumidis, the founder of Oumi.AI and a veteran of Microsoft, Meta, and Google, joins Adario Strange to explain how he's working to organize the open source AI community to help create a safer AI future, whether it's guarding against malicious code or addressing fears about potential future rogue AI systems. Guest website: Oumi.ai