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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

Trends over time

Jul 13–Oct 4, 2026 · 12 published weeks

In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

2 topics highlighted · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

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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 Cases33.4%Research: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearch22.7%Agents: About the same in the latest reportAgents14.5%Safety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governance8.6%Hardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardware7.9%Regulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulation3.9%Open Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen Models3.1%Economics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomics2.5%Infrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructure1.2%Jobs: About the same in the latest reportJobs1.2%Other: Below threshold in the latest reportOtherNo measurement

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Agents · 14.6% · Sep 14–20, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Agents

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

Sep 14–20, 2026

14.6%About the sameDown 5.1 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 · Sep 14–20, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 19.7% to 14.6%, with evidence across 15 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “7 Ways How We Use AI Is Changing” and “Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 15 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

12 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The AI Daily Brief

7 Ways How We Use AI Is Changing

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  1. A
    “What makes Claude projects so interesting is that it handles teams of agents really well.”
    Open episode and seek to 10:22

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  2. A
    “The agent will be the default interface to your personal and professional life.”
    Open episode and seek to 11:27

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  3. A
    “2026 will be looked back at as the year that agents became real after years and years of excitement”
    Open episode and seek to 20:27

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AI For Humans

Instinct & Meta Muse Are AI Agents That Can Run Your Life. We Let One Try.

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  1. A
    “despite all of that messaging, I didn't even bother investigating their agent”
    Play from 17:57

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  2. A
    “The era of powerful personal AI agents that can actually do stuff for you that is useful. It's here, friends”
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  3. A
    “That was the precursor to this. The idea was, oh, uh give an agent um very, very loose guardrails and set it free for you. Let it read your emails. Let it uh go crawl the web for you. Let it send uh emails on your behalf. Let it make phone calls. Let it do all of these things ...”
    Play from 02:28

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The Cognitive Revolution

No Code Is Code: Zapier CEO Wade Foster on Headless Tools, Zapier MCP & Automation Bench

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  1. C
    “you start to see the agent almost take over the human role of building and maintaining it”
    Open episode and seek to 19:04

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    “Our AI agents were just so much more effective when they were able to see the context inside of Slack.”
    Open episode and seek to 50:04

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    “underestimate the power of what happens when both humans and agents have access to the full context.”
    Open episode and seek to 51:15

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