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

VAIBE tracks conversations across AI-focused podcasts to show what people are talking about now, and tracks how those conversations change week by week.

Watch the AI conversation evolve, week over week.

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

TrackingJun 22–Sep 13, 2026Published history12 weekly reportsLatest weekly reportSep 7–13, 2026

What’s changing

Ranked by the latest report. Each line shows only the weeks VAIBE has actually published.

  1. Adoption Use Cases. Losing attention. 29% in the latest report. Highest 2 weeks ago. 13 podcasts and 349 relevant passages.
  2. Agents. Gaining attention. 20% in the latest report. Highest in 12 weeks. 12 podcasts and 217 relevant passages.
  3. Research. Losing attention. 17% in the latest report. Highest 3 weeks ago. 12 podcasts and 275 relevant passages.
  4. Safety & governance. About the same. 14% in the latest report. Highest 11 weeks ago. 12 podcasts and 223 relevant passages.
  5. Economics. Gaining attention. 7% in the latest report. Highest 5 weeks ago. 13 podcasts and 88 relevant passages.
  6. Regulation. Gaining attention. 6% in the latest report. Highest 8 weeks ago. 7 podcasts and 112 relevant passages.
  7. Open Models. About the same. 3% in the latest report. Highest 7 weeks ago. 6 podcasts and 23 relevant passages.

Agents, week by week

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

Presence
12 of 12 published weeks
Highest point
20% of conversation
Latest movement
Gaining attention

  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. 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 13% of the conversation across 9 podcasts.

    The AI Native Dev, No Priors, Practical AI, and Latent Space
    13%Down 2.5 points
    9 podcasts · 182 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  6. Agents grew to 15% of the conversation across 12 podcasts.

    No Priors, The AI Daily Brief, Practical AI, and Latent Space
    15%Up 1.8 points
    12 podcasts · 185 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  7. Agents eased to 9% of the conversation across 9 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, Eye on AI, Practical AI, and The Artificial Intelligence Show
    9%Down 6.5 points
    9 podcasts · 86 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  8. Agents grew to 15% of the conversation across 12 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, AI Inside, and AI For Humans
    15%Up 6.7 points
    12 podcasts · 188 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  9. Agents eased to 9% of the conversation across 9 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, Latent Space, and AI For Humans
    9%Down 6.5 points
    9 podcasts · 102 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  10. Agents grew to 12% of the conversation across 9 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, Practical AI, The Artificial Intelligence Show, and The AI Daily Brief
    12%Up 3.5 points
    9 podcasts · 131 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  11. Agents grew to 13% of the conversation across 11 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, The Artificial Intelligence Show, and AI Inside
    13%Up 0.6 points
    11 podcasts · 175 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources
  12. Highest point

    Agents grew to 20% of the conversation across 12 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, Machine Learning Street Talk, Eye on AI, and No Priors
    20%Up 6.7 points
    12 podcasts · 217 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

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