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Trends over time

Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks

In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

11 topics shown · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

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Topic attention across published weeksEach colored line uses the same attention scale. Only topics with published measurements are shown; their shares do not necessarily total 100%. Breaks mean missing measurements, not zero. Dated dots open that topic and week below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%Jul 13Jul 20Jul 27Aug 3Aug 10Aug 17Aug 24Aug 31Sep 7Sep 14Sep 21Sep 28Adoption Use Cases: About the same in the latest reportAdoption Use Cases33.4%Research: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearch22.7%Agents: About the same in the latest reportAgents14.5%Safety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governance8.6%Hardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardware7.9%Regulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulation3.9%Open Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen Models3.1%Economics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomics2.5%Infrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructure1.2%Jobs: About the same in the latest reportJobs1.2%Other: Below threshold in the latest reportOtherNo measurement

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Adoption Use Cases · 32.4% · Aug 3–9, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Adoption Use Cases

Practical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.

Aug 3–9, 2026

32.4%About the sameUp 3.3 percentage points from last week

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Adoption Use Cases, week by weekDated controls show each week's attention share. Gaps mean no qualifying measurement, not zero. Select a week to read its discussion below.0%11.3%22.5%33.8%45%
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Adoption Use Cases · Aug 3–9, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 29.1% to 32.4%, with evidence across 13 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent” and “Seedance 2.5 & The New Age of AI Video (w/ Theoretically Media)”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 13 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

12 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

Thinking in Silico: Goodfire CTO Dan Balsam on Concept Manifolds & a $1000/Month ML Research Agent

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    “Obviously, one of the big kind of received wisdoms of AI product development over the last couple years has been try to build something that will really work for the— with the next generation of models, even if it doesn't quite work yet.”
    Open episode and seek to 1:14:14

    ConceptAdoption Use Cases

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  2. A
    “are we still in that regime? And if so, is there Are there things that you're like wanting Opus 5.1 to be able— I, I don't know if you're even able to use Fable, interestingly enough, but is there something where you're like, I want my Opus 5.1 wishlist, I, I really hope it cl...”
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AI For Humans

Seedance 2.5 & The New Age of AI Video (w/ Theoretically Media)

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  1. B
    “You do not look as good as that. Yeah. And then the other side of that, if there's any kind of like product branding in there, or if it's seeing it as, as a real person, or if any one of those supermodel dudes have any—”
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  2. B
    “At the top line, I don't. Um, I'm going to use the best product, um, that provides the best results. Like, there's no, uh, uh, as we, as we, as we said in the '90s, um, uh, information knows no, knows no borders. So, you know, um, no, I'm, you know, I'm gonna jack into the old...”
    Play from 27:55

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  3. A
    “Oh yeah, it's a good— it's not a terrible way to use AI video. I will say that. That's been my experience.”
    Play from 34:44

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The AI Daily Brief

Google’s AI Leadership Shakeup: Disaster or Exactly What It Needs?

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  1. A
    “unbelievably powerful self-evident use case that for a ton of small business entrepreneurs who now make their living from Shopify shows just how valuable this technology can be”
    Open episode and seek to 10:27

    ConceptAdoption Use Cases

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Eye on AI

Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix

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  1. A
    “you have people who are not programmers who are now using Claude Code and are great programmers, right?”
    Open episode and seek to 03:38

    ConceptAdoption Use Cases

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  2. B
    “Or using it in sessions to brainstorm strategy, business strategy, or to change business processes. Do you use anything like that when you're Looking at the market, looking at your organization, trying to decide, you know, should I buy a rack scale company?”
    Open episode and seek to 24:16

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  3. B
    “I've interviewed companies. There's one, Era Technologies, which builds essentially C-suite Copilot. And the idea is that a CEO will have this Copilot in his office and will be talking to it throughout the day.”
    Open episode and seek to 23:52

    ConceptAdoption Use Cases

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No Priors

Chasing Trillion-Dollar Companies, Founder Ambition, Token Budgets, and Regulatory Capture with Sarah & Elad

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    “we have companies in the portfolio that are going against like pretty central premises.”
    Play from 09:54

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Practical AI

Models, Harnesses, and Multi-Agent Systems

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  1. C
    “you can start thinking about situations that you might've been afraid to use systems in before”
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    ConceptAdoption Use Cases

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    “There's a lot of people out there on LinkedIn calling themselves AI strategists and such. And if you fancy yourself with that title, then you've got to figure out how to apply these different resources to the needs of the business, given this very complex ecosystem. And so I t...”
    Open episode and seek to 45:53

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