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  • Last Week in AI
  • Latent Space
  • Machine Learning Street Talk
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  • 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In the latest report, the remaining 1% of attention can include unpublished topics and podcasts with no qualifying discussion.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

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Safety & governance · 10.7% · Aug 17–23, 2026 · Losing attention in the latest report

Safety & governance

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

Aug 17–23, 2026

10.7%Losing attentionDown 0.4 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 · Aug 17–23, 2026

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 11.1% to 10.7%, with evidence across 9 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov” and “AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 9 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

11 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

Machine Learning Street Talk

Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs — Ilia Shumailov & Alexander Panfilov

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    “I see. Wow. It's kind of cool, isn't it? Okay. So, and can you talk through, presumably outside of privacy, there are also safety implications around this?”
    Open episode and seek to 10:05

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  2. E
    “Who can you harm the most with all of the data that you've extracted?”
    Open episode and seek to 36:42

    ConceptSafety & governance

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  3. E
    “let's be very cold-headed scientists and say, build controlled environments and make very precise assessments”
    Open episode and seek to 45:23

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The Cognitive Revolution

AI in the AM — Weekly Highlights: Relaunch Week (Aug 17–20, 2026)

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  1. A
    “Then the harms map: cyber, bio. And the risk, he says, can't be clawed back.”
    Open episode and seek to 15:50

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  2. B
    “where somehow it seems like no model is ever high risk according to internal evals. It's either low or medium. And that just is suspicious”
    Open episode and seek to 24:21

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  3. B
    “I'll start with the obvious. Agent-orchestrated attacks are real. This wasn't intended to be a demonstration of AI cyberattacks, but we have that one. Threat actors that are intentionally optimising models and creating harnesses for offensive purposes can probably do a lot wor...”
    Open episode and seek to 01:29

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Latent Space

Simulation: the new Scaling Law — Joon Sung Park, Simile AI

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  1. B
    “we also want to make sure that we form enough of guardrail and perspective on how to leverage this technology before we go on to serve markets like the politics”
    Open episode and seek to 19:00

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AI Today Podcast

Critical Thinking and Trust in AI Projects: Insights from Cheryl Howard

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  1. C
    “we don't want people to use it outside of the guardrails. And that's where governance is such a big deal to me.”
    Play from 17:28

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#232: Claude Watermarking, AI’s Environmental Impact, OpenAI Talent Drama & Anthropic’s Hidden Advisor

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  1. A
    “OpenAI employees have discussed providing the detector directly to educators. or to outside companies that help schools identify AI-written papers and plagiarized work. Google has developed a watermarking tool that can detect text generated by Gemini AI called Syth-ID. It is i...”
    Play from 15:54

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  2. B
    “This was an idea he first made public in mid-July, a US-led standards group modeled on the FINRA financial services regulatory body that would safety test frontier AI models for dangerous capabilities before release. Apparently, Demis discussed the proposal privately with Trum...”
    Play from 59:56

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