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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

3 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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Economics · 3.1% · Aug 17–23, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Economics

The cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.

Aug 17–23, 2026

3.1%Losing attentionDown 0.5 percentage points from last week

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Economics, 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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Economics · Aug 17–23, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 3.6% to 3.1%, with evidence across 8 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)” and “Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 8 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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    “All transition— have you managed to transition someone from like an Opus 4 to a QN32? Like, what have been the transitions that you've seen from a large from a larger, more expensive model to a cheaper model? And how significant has been the cost decrease?”
    Open episode and seek to 1:06:29

    ConceptEconomics

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    “you're going to be able to service those same customers for significantly less investment”
    Open episode and seek to 1:08:00

    ConceptEconomics

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    “Their margins seem to be improving from the reporting that seems most credible to me. It seems like their finances are looking great.”
    Open episode and seek to 1:38:11

    ConceptEconomics

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The AI Daily Brief

The AI Backlash Is Getting Stupider. But Also Smarter.

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    “They take the past 4 weeks of API revenue and extrapolate that out to a full year. And whether you agree or not that that leads to an inflated figure, at the very least it's not recurring revenue”
    Open episode and seek to 04:46

    ConceptEconomics

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    “OpenRouter isn't necessarily a great place to look for evidence that a price war is actually breaking out.”
    Open episode and seek to 07:07

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Eye on AI

From Zero to 150 Robots in Just 20 Months | Mike LeBlanc, Foundation Future Industries

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    “there's always lots more funding when you can, when you're saving customers money, you have very, a lot of power to go scale.”
    Open episode and seek to 53:20

    ConceptEconomics

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Eye on AI

Why People Are Paying 10x More for AI - and What That Means for the Chip Market | Sid Sheth, d-Matrix

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    “We of course pay attention to all the work that's happening there and, you know, um, but yeah, I just wonder, are they moving in the same direction on, on, uh, you know, this premium token market and all of that?”
    Open episode and seek to 38:00

    ConceptEconomics

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