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Agents · 12.4% · Sep 21–27, 2026 · About the same in the latest report
Agents
AI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.
Sep 21–27, 2026
12.4%Losing attentionDown 2.2 percentage points from last week
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Agents · Sep 21–27, 2026
A closer read
What changed
Its share fell from 14.6% to 12.4%, with evidence across 13 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%” and “When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 13 podcasts in the full analysis.
Podcast moments from the week
9 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts
The Cognitive Revolution
AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%
“Companies, right? Corporations, uh which are kind of like agentic in a sense, um often um collude through price mechanisms, not explicit communication, but by signaling price in the market, which is in its own way a form of communication. So how does one uh, um prevent that ki...”
“For example, in Aiden, where we send the agent to attend OpenAI's uh hiring challenge, We found that human is still much better at generating creative primitives.”
“The inner loop agent will only look at the public set, whereas uh the outer loop will look at uh the aggregated score from the private set. So those 2 agents are optimizing at kind of different level of objective.”
“Could you talk a little bit about what that looks like? Kind of paint a picture so that somebody can really get that in their head, uh me first of all, uh about what that multi-agent world looks like when you were doing all these right things that you need to do in the enterpr...”
“When you spin that agent up, does each instance of that, each session have a unique identity? What is the, what's unique about that session and the data that, that is generated by that session versus maybe the things that are always static? Like, I'm not sure if the agent's .m...”