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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.

3 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

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Safety & governance · 8.6% · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

Ways to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.

Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

8.6%Losing attentionDown 5.4 percentage points from last week

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Safety & governance, 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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Safety & governance · Sep 28–Oct 4, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 14% to 8.6%, with evidence across 11 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids” and “#258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 11 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

9 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

One Brain, Any Body: Google DeepMind's Keerthana on Gemini Robotics 2, Cross-Embodiment & Humanoids

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    “safety needs to be front and center in the design for AI and also robotics”
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    “as AI becomes more capable, Like we need to think, spend more flops thinking about safety.”
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    “I think for some, a lot of safety and interpretability reasons, maybe we need to still maintain much lower level access to robots.”
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Last Week in AI

#258 - Opus 5.5, Sol and Luna, Muse, DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash, Xi

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    “the delicate equilibrium that we are in is at great risk. Like you can't just keep inventing crazy new technologies every Tuesday and think that stability will win through.”
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The AI Native Dev

Liz Fong-Jones: 2x the PRs, 1.5x the Incidents

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    “Exactly right. Like, our job is to make it so that the tools that the robots have are safe.”
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    “make sure that the tools are always safe to use and that the robots, right, like rather than trusting the robots to decide whether or not to call them.”
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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#243: GPT-6 Sol and Luna, Opus 5.5, the New Microsoft Copilot, Jensen Huang vs. AI Doomers & Introducing AI Score

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    “It just sounds like at the core— and I don't want to put words in Jensen's mouth— but he just sees this as an engineering problem. There's no existential AI risk. There's no weird godlike superintelligence that escapes its creators. There's just product decisions and hardware decisions and software decisions, it seems like, is what he's getting at here. Am I wrong on that?”
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