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.

Regulation, week by week

Laws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.

Presence
11 of 12 published weeks
Highest point
7% of conversation
Latest movement
Gaining attention

  1. Regulation began at 6% of the conversation across 8 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, AI For Humans, and Last Week in AI
    6%Starting point
    8 podcasts · 95 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  2. Regulation held near 6% of the conversation across 4 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, The Artificial Intelligence Show, AI For Humans, and AI Inside
    6%No meaningful change
    4 podcasts · 84 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  3. Regulation eased to 5% of the conversation across 6 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, Last Week in AI, AI Inside, and The AI Daily Brief
    5%Down 1.3 points
    6 podcasts · 90 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources
  4. Highest point

    Regulation grew to 7% of the conversation across 5 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, AI For Humans, AI Inside, and Last Week in AI
    7%Up 2.1 points
    5 podcasts · 71 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  5. Regulation eased to 3% of the conversation across 6 podcasts.

    Latent Space and AI For Humans
    3%Down 4.2 points
    6 podcasts · 42 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  6. Regulation grew to 3% of the conversation across 5 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and The Artificial Intelligence Show
    3%Up 0.5 points
    5 podcasts · 74 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  7. Regulation grew to 5% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    The Artificial Intelligence Show, The AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, and AI Inside
    5%Up 1.7 points
    7 podcasts · 90 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  8. Regulation eased to 3% of the conversation across 6 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, Last Week in AI, and The Artificial Intelligence Show
    3%Down 1.9 points
    6 podcasts · 57 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  9. Regulation eased to 3% of the conversation across 5 podcasts.

    Machine Learning Street Talk and The Artificial Intelligence Show
    3%Down 0.5 points
    5 podcasts · 42 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  10. Regulation 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

  11. Regulation began at 3% of the conversation across 8 podcasts.

    The AI Daily Brief, AI Inside, and The Artificial Intelligence Show
    3%Starting point
    8 podcasts · 47 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

  12. Regulation grew to 6% of the conversation across 7 podcasts.

    The Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and Last Week in AI
    6%Up 3.1 points
    7 podcasts · 112 relevant passagesOpen this week's sources

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