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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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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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Economics · 2.5% · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Economics

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

Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

2.5%Losing attentionDown 1.3 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 28–Oct 4, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 3.8% to 2.5%, with evidence across 8 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “What the Best Business AI Users Are Doing Different” and “AI put Minecraft in Skyrim (and OpenAI had a Dev Day)”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 8 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

7 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

AI For Humans

AI put Minecraft in Skyrim (and OpenAI had a Dev Day)

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  1. A
    “That would have been the cost of Crafty for one shoot day, though.”
    Play from 39:07

    ConceptEconomics

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  2. B
    “Well, that's right. So that makes it— that's a joke she makes in the— which I didn't write. That's a joke that the character makes in my documentary, is that it costs as much as a day of um catering. Right. Which is true. Right.”
    Play from 39:11

    ConceptEconomics

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Latent Space

Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT

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  1. B
    “Well, there's a lot in there. I do want to say uh the amount that OpenAI has spent is semi-public. It's uh 10,000 agents in 88 hours. 130 uh billion output tokens, which is estimated to be about $40 million in public pricing.”
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    ConceptEconomics

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The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM: Was Trump-Xi Anything? What Counts as Utopia? + AWS GPUs Cost 3X & AI Diagnoses Rare Diseases

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  1. H
    “Even dramatically so. And the retail posted API price hasn't changed, right? Except when they kind of introduce new models. So what are you measuring on a day-by-day basis that allows you to say, Yeah.”
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    ConceptEconomics

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AI Inside

The Proactive AI Agent Race is On

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  1. B
    “the section I really want to read is on open weight and Chinese models. Mm-hmm. M And I'm sure they're going to position China as, uh, you know, a big strategic risk, hm but open weight is a risk to them, to their business, to their core business, for sure. And I think they've got to feel that. Um, they, uh, revenue reached $4.59 billion in 2025, which is pretty damned impressive. A quarter of that came from 2 customers.”
    Play from 54:15

    ConceptEconomics

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#243: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Opus 5.5, the New Microsoft Copilot, Jensen Huang vs. AI Doomers & Introducing AI Score

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  1. B
    “the rate at which the capabilities are growing and the costs are dropping is something you should not ignore”
    Play from 21:32

    ConceptEconomics

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