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Agents · 15.9% · Jul 13–19, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Agents

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

Jul 13–19, 2026

15.9%Gaining attentionNo comparable prior week

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Agents · Jul 13–19, 2026

A closer read

What changed
This was its first published appearance at 15.9% of the conversation, with evidence across 10 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “The Self-Driving Company” and “Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 10 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

18 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The AI Daily Brief

The Self-Driving Company

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    “But it's not just totally new efforts that are seeing the impact of new agentic ways of working. In fact, as cool as some of these brand new startup style experiments are, ultimately their examples can be a little bit hard to see how they apply to today's existing companies, w...”
    Open episode and seek to 01:19

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    “It feels like a single master intelligence threaded through every employee, even though it is not. It is an expanding system of agents operating across the company. Taking goals from people, gathering context, performing work, checking the results, and escalating when human ju...”
    Open episode and seek to 02:33

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    “They feel like they've been promoted. This is the story of how AI has completely changed the way that we work at Replit. Engineering saw the impact first. In late January, we turned up infrastructure to experiment with internal agent use cases quickly. We leveraged our agent h...”
    Open episode and seek to 03:50

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AI For Humans

Kimi K3 Is Here. China Just Hit the AI Frontier.

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  1. A
    “Their company's gonna start making long horizon agents for things like a mortgage or things like, hey, apply to your healthcare company. And so you don't have to do those crazy long steps.”
    Play from 14:33

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  2. A
    “I mean, I use Claude throughout this process and it's been very helpful, but like, I would love to just give it to you. Go do it.”
    Play from 15:05

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    “Yes, you have access to all my stuff. You go sort it out.”
    Play from 15:11

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Practical AI

The Future of AI Infrastructure with CoreWeave

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  1. C
    “and then using AI itself to do that, I think, is sort of a clever approach.”
    Open episode and seek to 18:14

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  2. C
    “I think the experience is going to be an interaction with an agent”
    Open episode and seek to 19:44

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  3. C
    “But based on this data, perhaps it actually would be helpful to go and iterate and iterate and iterate and loop and loop and loop. And so this sort of approach to AI loop, I think, will be that type of development experience. It will still be the brains of the researcher. It w...”
    Open episode and seek to 20:56

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Latent Space

🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences

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  1. D
    “So the, the system designs the experiments, it gives instructions. There's like, oh, people need to actually do this thing. So you get— you recruit some of the staff to go and do that thing.”
    Open episode and seek to 12:40

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  2. B
    “Everything's an API call. And so sometimes when you call an API, there's a robot arm. Sometimes there's a, there's a human arm that does it.”
    Open episode and seek to 12:51

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  3. B
    “Yeah, well, phrasing. I think that, again, we want to spend resources where it makes sense to spend resources and make rational decisions. And sometimes it just doesn't make sense to try and automate a step when a person can do it in a 10th of a second. But what matters is tha...”
    Open episode and seek to 13:01

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AI Inside

Apple Says OpenAI Stole Its Secrets

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    “Like, they released GPT-5.6 with 3— on a more broadly released sense anyways. This is, you know, the 3 flavors that we've talked about: Sol, which is most powerful; Luna, which is faster, it's for speed; Terra, which is like the middle ground or a balance point. And SOL, they ...”
    Play from 16:02

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    “But that can kind of open Claude's way through all of these different things for you, right? Into your file structure, into all of your important places online as data sources, and become the place that you do all your business. Like I talked last week, that's largely what I u...”
    Play from 17:40

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    “good testing ground for what an app like that would need to do to have effective agents working in the browser so that it works in like a super app”
    Play from 21:27

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The AI Daily Brief

5 AI Engineering Trends for Non-Engineers

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    “Importantly, and this was not consensus at the time, Swyx wrote, I think it is a full-time job. I think software engineering will spawn a new subdiscipline specializing in applications of AI and wielding the emerging stack effectively, just as site reliability engineer, DevOps...”
    Open episode and seek to 14:16

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    “It's about the harness and broader system that the agent operates in. That includes, yes, access to context and data, but also access to skills, ability to interact with tools, and increasingly, ability to route between different models based on the task at hand. Now, Richard ...”
    Open episode and seek to 15:22

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    “Richard writes that at the event this year, agents were largely positioned as augmenting the AI engineer rather than replacing them. This was a big part of the substance of the day 2 keynote with OpenAI's Romain Hewitt, who said software ate the world and then AI ate software....”
    Open episode and seek to 16:40

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