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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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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

Direction compares the latest report with recent weeks; small changes are “About the same,” and gaps mean no measurement.

Open Models · 1.7% · Aug 24–30, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Open Models

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

Aug 24–30, 2026

1.7%About the sameUp 0.9 percentage points from last week

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Open Models, 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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Open Models · Aug 24–30, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 0.8% to 1.7%, with evidence across 6 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “The Most Useful New AI Features and Tools to Try” and “Bill Gates Has Three Ideas To Fix AI”.
How to read it
2 cited episodes from 2 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 6 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

3 quoted moments · 2 episodes · 2 podcasts

AI Inside

Bill Gates Has Three Ideas To Fix AI

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    “Yes, I agree with all that. Um, but for the nerds, um, hi nerds, uh, if you watch what Chief Nerd Leo Laporte's been doing, he has his saddle and he's, he's trading in models underneath it because he wants to test them all. So he's going in and out and in and out, in and out. ...”
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    “open weights are already winning in total compute volume, which is pretty amazing”
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