In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.
11 topics shown · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026
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Economics · 5% · Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report
Economics
The cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.
Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026
5%About the sameUp 0.1 percentage points from last week
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Economics · Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026
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What changed
Its share rose from 4.9% to 5%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “How AI Changed This Summer” and “#236: AI Answers - No Time for AI, AI Budgets, Vendor Terms & Data Risk, AI Disclosure & Vanishing Entry Level Roles”.
How to read it
3 cited episodes from 3 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 7 podcasts in the full analysis.
“the market started to understand that the total addressable market was not, in fact, number of knowledge workers times $20 per seat per month, but could be hundreds or even thousands of dollars for those same knowledge workers each month.”
“I can imagine that's going to be difficult. Um, it says vendors like Salesforce now tie their prices directly to the revenue gains or cost cuts customers see. So it's got to be about value, not just about buy more tokens, token max, and so on.”
“At the higher level, you understand that deeper work, let's say, costs more money, but how that translates into tokens and token usage when you hear that term flown around— but um there's no easy way to monitor that, or at least if it exists, most people don't know that it exi...”