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  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
  • Machine Learning Street Talk
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  • No Priors
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  • The Artificial Intelligence Show
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  • 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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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 CasesResearch: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearchAgents: About the same in the latest reportAgentsSafety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governanceHardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardwareRegulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulationOpen Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen ModelsEconomics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomicsInfrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructureJobs: About the same in the latest reportJobsOther: Below threshold in the latest reportOther

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Economics · 4.9% · Aug 24–30, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Economics

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

Aug 24–30, 2026

4.9%About the sameUp 1.8 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 24–30, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 3.1% to 4.9%, with evidence across 9 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents” and “#233: OpenAI Pauses Some AI Training, Anthropic Controversy, New State Opposition to Data Centers & AI Job Loss Among Young Workers”.
How to read it
4 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 9 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

5 quoted moments · 4 episodes · 4 podcasts

Training Data

Parallel’s Parag Agrawal: Building a New Web for AI Agents

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    “Favorite thing. So the challenge with Shapley values is computing Shapley values in our context is way more expensive than the amount of dollars we spend on the agent. Forget the amount of dollars we want to pay a publisher, right? So to compute a content owner, to compute tha...”
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    ConceptEconomics

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    “Efficient differential pricing. Paying for differentially a lot for extraordinarily high-value content. Paying a lot for high-value work accessing the same content. So it's differential on both dimensions, quality and value of work being done with it, and a way of doing this s...”
    Play from 39:26

    ConceptEconomics

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#233: OpenAI Pauses Some AI Training, Anthropic Controversy, New State Opposition to Data Centers & AI Job Loss Among Young Workers

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    “First, on the revenue and the valuation, you know, the potential market cap at $2 trillion, it's just hard to comprehend. I don't know that most people have the ability to really think about these numbers and how significant they really are. And then just going back to a point...”
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    ConceptEconomics

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Eye on AI

95% of AI Agent Projects Fail to Reach Production. Here's Why | Manoj Saxena, TrustWise

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    “You gave an example of an agent that gets stuck in a loop and is burning tokens. Which of course is money. And there's been a lot of talk in the last couple of months as these systems move out of pilot mode into production that people are discovering that this can quickly get ...”
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    ConceptEconomics

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