The AI conversation, week by week
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

VAIBE tracks conversations across AI-focused podcasts to show what people are talking about now, and tracks how those conversations change week by week.

Watch the AI conversation evolve, week over week.

Follow the topics that persist, gather attention, or fade as each weekly report joins the history.

TrackingJun 22–Sep 13, 2026Published history12 weekly reportsLatest weekly reportSep 7–13, 2026

What’s changing

Ranked by the latest report. Each line shows only the weeks VAIBE has actually published.

  1. Adoption Use Cases. Losing attention. 29% in the latest report. Highest 2 weeks ago. 13 podcasts and 349 relevant passages.
  2. Agents. Gaining attention. 20% in the latest report. Highest in 12 weeks. 12 podcasts and 217 relevant passages.
  3. Research. Losing attention. 17% in the latest report. Highest 3 weeks ago. 12 podcasts and 275 relevant passages.
  4. Safety & governance. About the same. 14% in the latest report. Highest 11 weeks ago. 12 podcasts and 223 relevant passages.
  5. Economics. Gaining attention. 7% in the latest report. Highest 5 weeks ago. 13 podcasts and 88 relevant passages.
  6. Regulation. Gaining attention. 6% in the latest report. Highest 8 weeks ago. 7 podcasts and 112 relevant passages.
  7. Open Models. About the same. 3% in the latest report. Highest 7 weeks ago. 6 podcasts and 23 relevant passages.

Hardware, week by week

The chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.

Presence
11 of 12 published weeks
Highest point
6% of conversation
Latest movement
Losing attention

  1. Hardware began at 2% of the conversation across 8 podcasts.

    Machine Learning Street Talk, The Cognitive Revolution, AI For Humans, and The AI Daily Brief
    2%Starting point
    8 podcasts · 44 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources
  2. Highest point

    Hardware grew to 6% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, Practical AI, and Latent Space
    6%Up 3.8 points
    7 podcasts · 82 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  3. Hardware eased to 4% of the conversation across 8 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, AI For Humans, The Cognitive Revolution, and Last Week in AI
    4%Down 2.2 points
    8 podcasts · 69 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  4. Hardware eased to 3% of the conversation across 4 podcasts.

    AI For Humans, The AI Daily Brief, AI Inside, and The Artificial Intelligence Show
    3%Down 0.8 points
    4 podcasts · 33 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  5. Hardware eased to 2% of the conversation across 5 podcasts.

    Latent Space and AI For Humans
    2%Down 1.6 points
    5 podcasts · 17 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  6. Hardware did not appear across enough podcasts to count this week.

    No qualifying sources this week
    Below thresholdToo few podcasts to count
    0 podcasts · 0 relevant passages

  7. Hardware began at 4% of the conversation across 5 podcasts.

    Eye on AI
    4%Starting point
    5 podcasts · 40 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  8. Hardware eased to 2% of the conversation across 5 podcasts.

    AI Inside
    2%Down 1.7 points
    5 podcasts · 33 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  9. Hardware grew to 6% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution and Eye on AI
    6%Up 4 points
    7 podcasts · 86 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  10. Hardware eased to 3% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, AI Inside, and Latent Space
    3%Down 3.2 points
    7 podcasts · 54 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  11. Hardware grew to 5% of the conversation across 8 podcasts.

    Eye on AI, No Priors, AI For Humans, and The Artificial Intelligence Show
    5%Up 2.6 points
    8 podcasts · 58 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  12. Hardware eased to 1% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution
    1%Down 4.4 points
    7 podcasts · 17 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

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