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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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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 · 29.6% · Aug 17–23, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Adoption Use Cases

Practical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.

Aug 17–23, 2026

29.6%About the sameDown 0.1 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 · Aug 17–23, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 29.7% to 29.6%, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)” and “Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI”.
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

13 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)

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    “reading a few, I think, is a very good use of people's time, and it will definitely inform how you think about the systems”
    Open episode and seek to 53:01

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    “What are you seeing in terms of adoption? And like, what are maybe some of your favorite app layer creative use cases, new possibilities that are opening up as a result of of the foundational technology that you're providing?”
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    “I'm going to be honest, that is not really our problem these days. I think that the— I think in the past that was a important question, right? Like, um, we can, and we can discuss that, you know, back in 2023, maybe even early '24. But nowadays, if you are not convinced that a...”
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Latent Space

Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI

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    “by making this better decision using simulation, you have saved yourself or major sell hundreds of millions or even billions of dollars”
    Open episode and seek to 50:33

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AI For Humans

AI Got Weird. So We're Changing The Show.

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    “It's super fun, super silly. And when I tell you how I made it, it is like 3 paragraphs, which blows my mind still. And along those lines, if you're not using the new GPT voice mode, Gavin, it is so good to have natural language conversations with an AI that is capable of spin...”
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    “what would normally be, you know, multiple hours process was so much faster to just use natural language”
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AI Inside

OpenAI Pumps the Brakes After Its AI Escaped

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  1. A
    “I use it all the time and I'm always like, always so happy with what I get out of it.”
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    ConceptAdoption Use Cases

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    “this is probably a really great data set for a company that wants to know, wants to improve their products”
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  3. A
    “I know, I, I do wonder about that. I think that, you know, is the— are the days numbered for something like that? Uh, basically he says all he did is he put in the screenplay, uh, the page of the screenplay, just a page, hit direct, hit go, and it returned basically the entire...”
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Eye on AI

From Zero to 150 Robots in Just 20 Months | Mike LeBlanc, Foundation Future Industries

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    “We're also trying to get the robots out. That's why I say onto, onto the battlefield in Ukraine, uh, to really hope to, to actually start putting them out there and seeing how do, how do the soldiers want to use them? How do they actually work in a fight? How do they, how do t...”
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  2. A
    “being able to take over 24-hour shifts, it teaches, teaches your robot a lot and it teaches your team a lot”
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    “Let's talk about the Georgia deployment. Uh, what exactly are the robots doing?”
    Open episode and seek to 39:08

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