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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

This week across AI podcasts

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%.

27 Episodes analyzed15 Podcasts contributed this week1 Week observed

All 27 public episodes released by tracked podcasts that week were analyzed. Podcasts without a release are not counted as weekly contributors.

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.

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Leading conversations this week

Percentages show how much of the relevant podcast conversation each topic occupied—not whether hosts agreed with it. Open a topic for its moments and sources.

  1. Adoption Use CasesPractical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.14 podcasts · 445 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The AI Daily Brief, and The Cognitive Revolution +11 more30%of this week's conversation
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.11 podcasts · 301 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The Cognitive Revolution, and No Priors +8 more19%of this week's conversation
  3. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.13 podcasts · 268 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The Cognitive Revolution, and AI Inside +10 more17%of this week's conversation
  4. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.12 podcasts · 152 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The AI Daily Brief, and The Cognitive Revolution +9 more8%of this week's conversation
  5. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.13 podcasts · 95 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The Cognitive Revolution, and AI Inside +10 more7%of this week's conversation
  6. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.8 podcasts · 95 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, and AI For Humans +5 more6%of this week's conversation
  7. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.7 podcasts · 27 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The AI Daily Brief, and Last Week in AI +4 more5%of this week's conversation
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  1. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.9 podcasts · 30 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The Cognitive Revolution, and No Priors +6 more4%of this week's conversation
  2. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.8 podcasts · 44 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The Cognitive Revolution, and AI For Humans +5 more2%of this week's conversation
  3. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.6 podcasts · 44 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, AI For Humans, and Last Week in AI +3 more2%of this week's conversation
  4. OtherAI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.9 podcasts · 33 relevant passagesMachine Learning Street Talk, The AI Daily Brief, and AI For Humans +6 more1%of this week's conversation
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From Jun 22–28, 2026

About this Concept

Hardware

The chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.

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 2.4% of the conversation, with evidence across 8 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 8 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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    “So my background is in theoretical computer science. I used to do algorithms for high-dimensional data, locality-sensitive hashing. Then I moved to normal computing to develop thermal computing, also to speed up Bayesian intelligence. Sometimes I think about it as the lovable ...”

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  2. B
    “land on answers that would normally cost a fortune to compute”

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    “And then you infuse all of this noise, and it'll start to behave according to these stochastic differential equations. It actually behaves sort of according to the inverse of that matrix.”

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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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  1. D
    “if you restrict the supply of compute, which is relatively easy, then that just takes a ton of pressure off of all of these runaway growth like avenues”

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  2. A
    “The last stretch is about the systems, the science, and the buildout underneath all of it. First, Bing Xu, co-creator of MXNet, now out of stealth building self-improving infrastructure. His company runs a swarm of AI agents that write PTX, the lowest-level code that tells an ...”

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    “everyone using CUDA can achieve better performance than faster than ever”

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AI For Humans

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

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  1. A
    “It doesn't matter, Kevin, because I can't afford the memory to run anything. Apple and other companies just jacked their prices because of AI.”

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  2. A
    “Yeah, I mean, listen, Kevin, this is a— this is part of one large story, right? And the one large story is that AI has come for the world. And we have been talking about this for a while. And Kevin, I hate to tell everybody in the world of AI this, but This MacBook increase in...”

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  3. B
    “I do have to say, I think, I think disclosure that I am invested in several memory companies. Yes, you should. Yeah, yeah. Kind of, I did, I did see this happening. Um, yes. But so on, on the one hand, oh darn, my portfolio has increased. On the other hand, I am also seriously...”

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The AI Daily Brief

CEO-Led AI Gets 3X the ROI

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    “First up, OpenAI has unveiled their first in-house chip. The chip is codenamed Jalapeño and was produced in collaboration with Broadcom. OpenAI referred to Jalapeño as an integrated processor and described it as the first AI accelerator in a multi-generation compute platform. ...”

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    “This morning is another one of those moments. Now, with the stakes established, analysts held their breath on Wednesday night to see if Micron could come through, and the results were much stronger than anyone expected. Micron delivered a beat on top-line revenue and profits, ...”

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Last Week in AI

#249 - Fable 5 ban, SpaceX Cursor + IPO, OSS Aplenty

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  1. B
    “What they're doing here is they preprocess the token representation and project it to make it smaller, like a small lower-rank latent space, which just reduces the amount of computation that, you know, each of those experts has to do, makes the whole thing more efficient overa...”

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AI Inside

Meta's Data Center on Your Face

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  1. B
    “I still think the potential's there. I think technology of AI with the form factor of glasses and the fact that we look, use our eyes when we're wearing glasses to see lots of things.”

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    “They're the data center on your face.”

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  3. B
    “Yes, that's a great way to put it. The data center on your face. I like that. That might just have to be the title. But, um, but yeah, like, are we— is this Glasshole 2.0, do you think, potentially? Or, or is it not quite there yet?”

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