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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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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 · 3.8% · Sep 21–27, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Economics

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

Sep 21–27, 2026

3.8%About the sameDown 0.6 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 · Sep 21–27, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 4.4% to 3.8%, with evidence across 9 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 “OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 9 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

8 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 4 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM: What If It Works Too Well? Colluding Agents, $200M Safety Orgs, Virtual Cells Saturate at 2%

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  1. H
    “In some commodity markets, um there's this idea of baseload where you have a large amount of baseload and then you have this idea of um load that gets spun up on demand. But um how do you differentiate the pricing between the kind of baseload versus the swing capacity? Because...”
    Open episode and seek to 55:09

    ConceptEconomics

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Latent Space

OpenRouter: from Seed to Stripe — with OpenRouter’s Alex Atallah & AMP’s Anjney Midha

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  1. B
    “the economics of creating good competitors are much more decentralizable”
    Open episode and seek to 15:05

    ConceptEconomics

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  2. B
    “We cleaned it up. Um It allowed, providers to compete on price so we could give users the best price in one spot. And so it was, I think, the first clear example of a provider marketplace working in a way that adds value to developers.”
    Open episode and seek to 44:50

    ConceptEconomics

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    “I think people will pay, um I think, The Datadog pricing page is a good look at the future to come. It's like companies, infrastructure companies will charge for different types of events that they're providing, and there'll be lots of continuous pricing models that look like ...”
    Open episode and seek to 1:11:48

    ConceptEconomics

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No Priors

Re-Founding Incumbents for the AI Era with Sequence Holdings Co-Founder and CEO Michael Lee

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  1. A
    “in light of what is going to be the biggest technological shift of our lifetime, I felt very strongly that if you could acquire the right incumbent, inherit the advantages of being that incumbent, could forge the market leader.”
    Play from 03:19

    ConceptEconomics

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The AI Daily Brief

The State of the AI Debate

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  1. A
    “Industry critics were perhaps unsurprisingly extremely negative on this framing, suggesting that stripping away major costs to get to profitability on paper is not a great indication of financial health.”
    Open episode and seek to 01:29

    ConceptEconomics

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