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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

2 topics highlighted · 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 · 34.3% · Jul 20–26, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Adoption Use Cases

Practical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.

Jul 20–26, 2026

34.3%Gaining attentionUp 5.1 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 · Jul 20–26, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 29.2% to 34.3%, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “How to Get the Most from AI This Summer” and “Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 12 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

15 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

No Priors

Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang

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  1. B
    “you get access to all the AI tools and products that we want to ship”
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  2. B
    “Like, how do you even find the pin, the location of a customer's home? Uh, which again sounds kind of silly, but when you punch in someone's address on Google Maps, like the GPS pin, it's like, especially if you're going to apartment complex, it's never kind of, I mean, I mean...”
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  3. C
    “it's going to unlock some interesting use cases that I think would not really be as feasible or possible like in today's world”
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Latent Space

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

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    “Which I'll say, you know, you can see somewhat works looking at Anthropic. OpenAI has a lot of vision, multimodality. Anthropic kind of just did it, right? Fable's a big step up in image processing, but like, they're not known as the multimodal company, right? They're the lang...”
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AI Inside

GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face

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    “Like, she's legally blind, so, you know, and he uses the verb to see. So, so she was like, you know, when it was making the wrong sight, she was able to, to see and judge it to the extent.”
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  2. B
    “that makes sense to me that AI, using AI for these things is probably you know, less expensive”
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    “Right? It was a joke on LLM and all that. No. So yeah, however, Gemini Notebook still sounds a little generic. And if Google ever starts a notebook product like Keep That can be confusing.”
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Interconnects

Open models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next

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    “A simple question. Do you like, can you use this for most of the core work you do in terms of like the expect you have a distribution of stuff you tend to do? Most of them are with Codex. I think you're a Codex person rather than a Claude person. what percentage do you think t...”
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  2. B
    “The wall clock time is significantly, significantly higher than GPT. But I would say like, if I was to push it and use it in my daily workflow, I would be slower, but I wouldn't be slowed down by so much that I would say, all right, that's unusable.”
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    “if you can do a lot of tasks at a good enough level, like really fast, you just use that model”
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AI For Humans

Is Google Gemini In Trouble?

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  1. A
    “With, exactly. And I, and I have been, asked to watch so many short films and everything else from friends and acting reels. There are performances, and I'm using air quotes, there are performances in this piece that blow away some acting. And there's some bits that are better...”
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  2. A
    “Well, are we going to get better computer use with ChatGPT?”
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    “That is the plan. That is the plan. Although I will say this, Kevin, one of the things that I found really interesting, and I just wanted to kind of tag this onto this section, because I have been using computer use in Codex and ChatGPT work. And I have to tell you, If you hav...”
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