AI and crypto are colliding across infrastructure, compute, and trust and the capital is following fast. Investors are betting big on foundational layers that could define the future of finance, identity, and value transfer. Is this convergence hype or the next long cycle?

The AI industry is racing toward ever-more-powerful models, but for enterprises deploying agents in the real world, raw intelligence isn’t the bottleneck-reliability is. Vinod Khosla and Dan Klein explore why the next frontier isn’t smarter AI, it’s AI you can actually trust. From eliminating hallucinations to building verifiable systems, they discuss what it takes to move from impressive demos to production-grade agents in regulated industries.