The AI conversation, week by week
18 AI-focused podcasts currently tracked18 AI podcasts

Currently tracking18 AI-focused podcasts

  • AI For Humans
  • AI Inside
  • AI Today Podcast
  • Eye on AI
  • Gradient Dissent
  • Interconnects
  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
  • Machine Learning Street Talk
  • Me, Myself, and AI
  • No Priors
  • Practical AI
  • The AI Daily Brief
  • The AI Native Dev
  • The Artificial Intelligence Show
  • The Cognitive Revolution
  • The TWIML AI Podcast
  • Training Data

The conversation, across weeks

Follow the topics that persist, gather attention, or fade as each weekly report joins the history.

TrackingJun 22–Jul 26, 2026Published history5 weekly reportsLatest weekly reportJul 20–26, 2026

Topics over time

This view always includes every published week. Darker squares mean a topic occupied more of the relevant podcast conversation—not that hosts agreed with it.

  1. Adoption Use Cases. Holding. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak latest week at 34% of the conversation. 6 podcasts and 140 relevant passages.
  2. Research. Rising. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak latest week at 24% of the conversation. 6 podcasts and 195 relevant passages.
  3. Agents. Cooling. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak 2 weeks earlier at 17% of the conversation. 5 podcasts and 39 relevant passages.
  4. Open Models. Rising. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak latest week at 9% of the conversation. 4 podcasts and 31 relevant passages.
  5. Economics. Rising. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak latest week at 9% of the conversation. 5 podcasts and 37 relevant passages.
  6. Regulation. Cooling. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak 1 week earlier at 7% of the conversation. 4 podcasts and 24 relevant passages.
  7. Hardware. Holding. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak 3 weeks earlier at 6% of the conversation. 3 podcasts and 14 relevant passages.

Agents, week by week

AI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.

Presence
5 of 5 published weeks
Highest share
Peak 17%
Latest movement
Cooling

  1. Agents began at 8% of the conversation across 12 podcasts.

    Machine Learning Street Talk, The AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, and AI Inside
    8%Starting point
    12 podcasts · 152 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  2. Agents grew to 13% of the conversation across 9 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, Eye on AI, and The Artificial Intelligence Show
    13%Up 5.4 points
    9 podcasts · 151 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources
  3. Peak

    Agents grew to 17% of the conversation across 10 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, Eye on AI, and AI For Humans
    17%Up 4.1 points
    10 podcasts · 197 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  4. Agents eased to 16% of the conversation across 10 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, AI For Humans, Practical AI, and Latent Space
    16%Down 1.5 points
    10 podcasts · 136 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  5. Agents eased to 10% of the conversation across 5 podcasts.

    No Priors, Practical AI, Latent Space, and AI For Humans
    10%Down 5.5 points
    5 podcasts · 39 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

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