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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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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 · 36.4% · Sep 14–20, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Adoption Use Cases

Practical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.

Sep 14–20, 2026

36.4%About the sameUp 7.9 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 · Sep 14–20, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 28.5% to 36.4%, with evidence across 15 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon” and “Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 15 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

12 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

No Priors

Why Diffusion Will Win AI Inference with Inception Co-Founder and CEO Stefano Ermon

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    “It was better, in fact, than the models they were using before. And so they're still able to provide the level of service to their customers by using Mercury.”
    Play from 25:12

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    “Well, very simple if the interfaces are the same and you could just use your same stack.”
    Play from 25:57

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AI For Humans

Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.

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  1. A
    “No, I'm just saying I, I need to know a little bit more before I get into bed with Instinct. And so I do use it. I have some anecdotal wins with it. Did I talk about the, the, the shade Street View thing last week?”
    Play from 07:01

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The Cognitive Revolution

No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench

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  1. C
    “using your own sort of company data to build an edge is a pretty spot-on technique these days”
    Open episode and seek to 27:45

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    “one downside of going that route with your customers is they'll have to attach all these different platforms”
    Open episode and seek to 41:01

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    “We are good at APIs and we're good at that stuff. And so that was like just an easy, natural, just was an emergent experience, experiment, an emergent property. I think for this experience to be great, you should use all the tools that you have available to you.”
    Open episode and seek to 41:50

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AI Inside

It's All About That Pace

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  1. E
    “you don't know what you're gonna get if you use one LLM versus another underneath, but it's still presented as Siri”
    Play from 42:09

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  2. B
    “Mhm And if we start to believe this, this is an analog to what Reid Hoffman was talking about. If every resident of the United States had 3 free agents to use, uh, for law and health and tutoring, um, what if we as a society also said, oh my God, we have a bounty of new knowle...”
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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#240: How David’s Bridal Is Rebuilding a 76-Year-Old Business Around AI

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  1. B
    “this is like a complete reinvention reinvention of an existing, very important, very painful process from almost the ground up using AI.”
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    “That's awesome. Um, you know, I'm curious, with all this AI work you're doing to reinvent essentially the wedding industry, how can you maybe give some examples of how internally at David's Bridal are different teams using AI, whether it's on products, marketing, sales, whatev...”
    Play from 27:32

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    “if we taught everyone how to use AI and just took a step back, no one would really use it”
    Play from 27:54

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