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  • The Cognitive Revolution
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Trends over time

Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks

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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 CasesResearch: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearchAgents: About the same in the latest reportAgentsSafety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governanceHardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardwareRegulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulationOpen Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen ModelsEconomics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomicsInfrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructureJobs: About the same in the latest reportJobsOther: Below threshold in the latest reportOther

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Agents · 8.9% · Aug 17–23, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Agents

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

Aug 17–23, 2026

8.9%Losing attentionDown 6.5 percentage points from last week

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Agents, 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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Agents · Aug 17–23, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 15.4% to 8.9%, with evidence across 9 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “The Real Future of AI and Work” and “AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 9 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

11 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

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

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    “Tool calls per minute, I think, might be an interesting way to just try to make sure that these things are not overwhelming systems”
    Open episode and seek to 58:14

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Latent Space

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

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    “The beauty of this model and these agents is the fact that they are domain agnostic”
    Open episode and seek to 47:03

    ConceptAgents

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    “If you remember. So there is a close second that we were considering, which basically ended up becoming more of these automation tools, but especially the vision around really personalized agents. that would actually do things for you.”
    Open episode and seek to 05:44

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    “with the emergence of things like generative AI and in particular generative agents, we do have an opportunity to create these kind of agent-based models that are high fidelity, enough to help us make really complex decisions.”
    Open episode and seek to 44:49

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AI For Humans

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

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    “makes you realize, oh, you can do this stuff now with all of these agents and have them do things in the real world”
    Play from 23:59

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    “I did mute. I'm sorry, Gash. I muted you for a second while I was explaining to Gavin that I had to recreate you with ElevenLabs agents. And right now you are powered by Quinn and there's no more like copy and pasting. I can just talk to you and then you can respond. And maybe...”
    Play from 25:17

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The AI Daily Brief

9 AI Techniques You Probably Haven't Tried

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    “one of the things that I think is going to be a big trend moving forward is agentic tools and interaction patterns and platforms that focus on agents that live in the intersection where teams come together”
    Open episode and seek to 23:31

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    “I think that this pattern of use of agents that are shared across teams is going to be one of the biggest and most important trends for AI this fall.”
    Open episode and seek to 24:44

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    “People are responding very positively to the fact that it has its own virtual computer that it can use to solve certain types of access issues that plagued previous agents.”
    Open episode and seek to 25:50

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Machine Learning Street Talk

Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker

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    “I know. And ironically, people aren't really talking much about the hallucination now because they're agentic and they can fix their own stuff. You know, it's more like, you know, if you analogize it like a database query or a program interpreter, it's only as good as the prog...”
    Open episode and seek to 33:05

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