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

The conversation, across weeks

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

TrackingJun 22–Jul 26, 2026Published history5 weekly reportsLatest weekly reportJul 20–26, 2026

Topics over time

This view always includes every published week. Darker squares mean a topic occupied more of the relevant podcast conversation—not that hosts agreed with it.

  1. Adoption Use Cases. Holding. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak latest week at 34% of the conversation. 6 podcasts and 140 relevant passages.
  2. Research. Rising. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak latest week at 24% of the conversation. 6 podcasts and 195 relevant passages.
  3. Agents. Cooling. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak 2 weeks earlier at 17% of the conversation. 5 podcasts and 39 relevant passages.
  4. Open Models. Rising. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak latest week at 9% of the conversation. 4 podcasts and 31 relevant passages.
  5. Economics. Rising. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak latest week at 9% of the conversation. 5 podcasts and 37 relevant passages.
  6. Regulation. Cooling. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak 1 week earlier at 7% of the conversation. 4 podcasts and 24 relevant passages.
  7. Hardware. Holding. Present in 5 of 5 weeks tracked. Peak 3 weeks earlier at 6% of the conversation. 3 podcasts and 14 relevant passages.

Open Models, week by week

AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.

Presence
5 of 5 published weeks
Highest share
Peak 9%
Latest movement
Rising

  1. Open Models began at 5% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    Machine Learning Street Talk, The AI Daily Brief, Last Week in AI, and Latent Space
    5%Starting point
    7 podcasts · 27 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  2. Open Models eased to 3% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, The Artificial Intelligence Show, and Practical AI
    3%Down 2.1 points
    7 podcasts · 23 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  3. Open Models eased to 2% of the conversation across 8 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, Practical AI, and Last Week in AI
    2%Down 1.1 points
    8 podcasts · 31 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  4. Open Models grew to 5% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, AI For Humans, Latent Space, and AI Inside
    5%Up 2.9 points
    7 podcasts · 51 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources
  5. Peak

    Open Models grew to 9% of the conversation across 4 podcasts.

    Practical AI, Latent Space, The AI Daily Brief, and Eye on AI
    9%Up 4.1 points
    4 podcasts · 31 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

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