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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

VAIBE tracks conversations across AI-focused podcasts to show what people are talking about now, and tracks how those conversations change week by week.

This week in AI conversations

Adoption Use Cases and research led the first week of tracking

Across 27 episodes from 15 contributing podcasts, adoption use cases held 30.1% of the relevant conversation and research held 18.5%.

The TL;DR

What changed
This is the first published week, so there is no earlier report to compare.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Research, and Safety & governance accounted for 65% of the relevant conversation across 27 episodes.
How to read it
Recurrence across podcasts does not mean agreement. The cited moments show the language behind each summary.

What’s hot this week

The ideas that came up most often, what changed, and why they mattered. Open any topic to see the podcast moments behind it.

  1. Adoption Use CasesPractical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.Discussion of adoption use cases appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 30% of the conversation across 14 podcasts this week.New this week30% of this week · 14 podcasts
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.Discussion of research appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 19% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.New this week19% of this week · 11 podcasts
  3. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.Discussion of safety & governance appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 17% of the conversation across 13 podcasts this week.New this week17% of this week · 13 podcasts
  4. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.Discussion of agents appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 8% of the conversation across 12 podcasts this week.New this week8% of this week · 12 podcasts
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  1. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.Discussion of economics appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 7% of the conversation across 13 podcasts this week.New this week7% of this week · 13 podcasts
  2. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.Discussion of regulation appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 6% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.New this week6% of this week · 8 podcasts
  3. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.Discussion of open models appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 5% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.New this week5% of this week · 7 podcasts
  4. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.Discussion of jobs appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 4% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.New this week4% of this week · 9 podcasts
  5. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.Discussion of hardware appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 2% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.New this week2% of this week · 8 podcasts
  6. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.Discussion of infrastructure appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 2% of the conversation across 6 podcasts this week.New this week2% of this week · 6 podcasts
  7. OtherAI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.Discussion of other appeared across multiple podcasts for the first time. It made up 1% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.New this week1% of this week · 9 podcasts
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From Jun 22–28, 2026

About this Concept

Economics

The cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.

Trend this week

1 of 1 week tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
This was its first published appearance at 6.8% of the conversation, with evidence across 13 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle” and “AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerme...”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 13 podcasts in the full analysis.

Podcast moments from the week

Moments are grouped by episode so repeated excerpts from one conversation do not look like separate sources.

15 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

Machine Learning Street Talk

The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle

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  1. C
    “I don't really see the reason in doing that”

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  2. A
    “API pricing stuff is really killing innovation, I think, in that space, right? I mean, I think Codex, I think they are actually opening up more that you can use your accounts. I saw just yesterday, I think maybe also Anthropic opened up some that you could use some more, like ...”

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The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerment, swyx's AI-Eng Alpha

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    “I think it's plausible that they could.”

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    “I just think that's a very unstable situation.”

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  3. F
    “Yeah. And currently we are in a massive compute crunch, right? And labs operate in a way that they care more about their future models often than about current revenue, right? So we don't really know what the compute split is and how it's used, but sort of Some numbers that ar...”

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AI Inside

Liz Reid on What Publishers Get Wrong About AI

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  1. C
    “Okay. So then you've got that, that kind of extra context and, and that's super powerful. What will come up probably a couple of times throughout the course of this interview is, is the side of the publishers, of course, because there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of pub...”

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    “I think there's a lot of opportunity with personalization for creators and journalists who specialize in something and would otherwise have been difficult to be found to now be found.”

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No Priors

Really Big Test-Time Compute in AI Changes Benchmarks, Safety and Research with OpenAI Research Scientist Noam Brown

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    “Given this set of beliefs and your work, like, how would you characterize just competition at the frontier between the, between the 3 kingdoms if there is no overnight takeoff? It's just researchers grinding away, trying to make good, high-taste algorithmic and investment deci...”

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  2. A
    “every couple months we put out a new model that's even more powerful. And so the cost of disproving the Erdős unit distance conjecture drops by 10 or 100x with every model release cycle”

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    “Yeah, just go on vacation, come back, 2 months later and then it's 1,000 times cheaper.”

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AI For Humans

Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.

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  1. A
    “Maybe don't say at the July 4th barbecue so loudly how great AI is”

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  2. A
    “Anyway, so I think that's it. I think that's kind of a plan that's lurking right now, is the monetization of ChatGPT free that is coming very soon.”

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  3. B
    “Crazy. I mean, look, we, we knew it was in the works. It was only a matter of time. And these data centers aren't going to pay for themselves, and with the price of memory Maybe we got to suffer through some audio ads. But speaking of suffering through some audio, Gavin.”

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The AI Daily Brief

CEO-Led AI Gets 3X the ROI

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    “Perhaps notably, Anthropic opened a major office in London in April with space for 800 employees, conveniently just a few miles away from the DeepMind office. Finally, over in markets, it is bubble on, bubble off as blowout earnings from Micron send the markets in the opposite...”

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    “This is the narrative that Micron disrupted on Wednesday night. It is now clear that their massive growth surge in Q1 wasn't a one-off. It appears the AI industry is instead driving a structural shift in memory demand, and the suppliers are struggling to keep up. Goldman Sachs...”

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