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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

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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 CasesResearch: Gaining attention in the latest reportResearchAgents: About the same in the latest reportAgentsSafety & governance: Losing attention in the latest reportSafety & governanceHardware: Gaining attention in the latest reportHardwareRegulation: About the same in the latest reportRegulationOpen Models: About the same in the latest reportOpen ModelsEconomics: Losing attention in the latest reportEconomicsInfrastructure: About the same in the latest reportInfrastructureJobs: About the same in the latest reportJobsOther: Below threshold in the latest reportOther

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Regulation · 4.1% · Sep 21–27, 2026 · About the same in the latest report

Regulation

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

Sep 21–27, 2026

4.1%About the sameUp 0.2 percentage points from last week

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Regulation, 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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Regulation · Sep 21–27, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 3.9% to 4.1%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Opus 5.5 is our favorite AI model (so far).” and “#241: Pacing the Frontier Gets Political, Why AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models for Themselves & Introducing the AI Transformation Blueprint”.
How to read it
2 cited episodes from 2 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 7 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

4 quoted moments · 2 episodes · 2 podcasts

AI For Humans

Opus 5.5 is our favorite AI model (so far).

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    “Well, don't you think that like both of those companies, let's say Anthropic, and I know OpenAI has been working on a sound model for a long time, right? And maybe they're just behind the scenes working on it because of the legal issues. We know that Suno is still dealing with...”
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    ConceptRegulation

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    “I don't think that in general the government understands what they're talking about when this comes to anything.”
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    ConceptRegulation

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#241: Pacing the Frontier Gets Political, Why AI Labs Could Keep the Best Models for Themselves & Introducing the AI Transformation Blueprint

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  1. A
    “when you're talking about regulation of these models, you have to look out 12, 18, 24 months in the future and try and predict What are they going to be capable of? Because we can't control them now.”
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    ConceptRegulation

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    “No one exists like that to my knowledge that works in government.”
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    ConceptRegulation

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