In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.
3 topics highlighted · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026
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Agents · 12.4% · Aug 24–30, 2026 · About the same in the latest report
Agents
AI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.
Aug 24–30, 2026
12.4%About the sameUp 3.5 percentage points from last week
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Agents · Aug 24–30, 2026
A closer read
What changed
Its share rose from 8.9% to 12.4%, with evidence across 9 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?” and “Building the Foundation for the Agentic AI Era”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 9 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
14 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts
The Cognitive Revolution
AI:AM Highlights: Recursive Self-Improvement, Rushed and Vibe-Coded?
“How good are the uh coding agents. And obviously everybody knows that the frontier companies are very focused on getting their models to be good at ML research.”
“I love that. So it sounds like you've actually correct me if I'm wrong been deploying agents to almost every phase of this cycle, you know from AEO to uh further demand qualification and to the actual strategy and TAM itself.”
“the flippening where all of a sudden agentic output tokens are representing 53%. And by June, when this dataset ends, we're down to 36% while agentic tokens were up to 64%.”
“I'm like, I feel like I have this incredible, I can just see it coming a mile away. How do agents deal with things like that, right? Where these are, you know, well-trafficked pages, they have seemingly good answers, but you just know they're not real.”
