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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

6 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 · 32.7% · Sep 21–27, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Adoption Use Cases

Practical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.

Sep 21–27, 2026

32.7%About the sameDown 3.7 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 21–27, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 36.4% to 32.7%, with evidence across 13 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%” and “OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 13 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

11 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 4 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%

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    “a few thousand samples is enough to be able to take the general model and then adapt it very quickly to that customer's use case”
    Open episode and seek to 1:19:15

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Latent Space

OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha

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  1. B
    “We are like a neutral layer looking at this market like it's a big dark room with all the corners completely obscure to users, and users are walking into the room, and like feeling around and trying to figure out what objects to grab off the tables and like build into uh their...”
    Open episode and seek to 21:58

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    “It was an interesting use case um that they— so they did give us a moderation endpoint. However, as you guys know, every Discord server is like a mini deployment of itself. And so the use case was instead of having human moderators that have to interpret the norms of the commu...”
    Open episode and seek to 12:16

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    “OpenAI's evals, we were also primitive in our thinking about how to deploy these LLMs that often they um the post-training prompts were super heavy-handed”
    Open episode and seek to 12:43

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The AI Daily Brief

How People Are Actually Using Jev

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    “it's hard not to think that marketing will shift to using this as a key part of its process to pressure test ad or landing page angles before paying for real tests.”
    Open episode and seek to 07:59

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    “In the first 10 days since Jev was released, we've gone from buzzy, exciting concept to actually valuable production use cases extremely quickly.”
    Open episode and seek to 24:36

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AI Inside

Qualcomm Wants Its AI Chips On Every Device

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    “I mean, you know, technically, I think, um, you know, anything, anything is possible there. I think what we look at is, um, use cases, right? And one of the things, you'll see this tomorrow, I believe that, uh, PJ is going to demonstrate this tomorrow, but one of the key uses ...”
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Latent Space

Runway’s WorldPrompt and the Engineering of Real-Time Worlds

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    “There is um a wide, very active enterprise adoption happening around video models at the moment, and uh we're really trying to uh respond to all the demand.”
    Open episode and seek to 1:18:22

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    “Amazing. We're going to end with the Runway AI Summit. The last sort of societal issue, I guess, I don't know if this is a uh thing, is the— uh you are at the tension between sort of artists, uh creatives, and AI. A lot of people in that community hate AI. Obviously, the peopl...”
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  3. C
    “Interesting. I think uh a lot of people have been saying a lot of video gen model companies have all pivoted to world models these days, but 2023, you're posting it.”
    Open episode and seek to 25:08

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