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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

Infrastructure

The software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.

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 2.2% of the conversation, with evidence across 6 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “AI:AM #4: Cameron on Model Consciousness, Duvenaud's Gradual Disempowerme...” and “Anthropic Caught Alibaba Spying. The AI Cold War Is Here.”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 6 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.

16 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

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

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  1. C
    “I don't know if that's the ethos of the open internet that we want”

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  2. C
    “Or you can go to Cursor and effectively get $5 million a year doing the same thing. But you're the cool, sexy one. And It's very interesting, right? When does that switch from like, oh, a startup can never beat an incumbent, to the startup is actually preferred to the incumben...”

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    “Staying on the economics of compute, Erik Olsen of ConsenSys on AI for science and what it costs to actually serve. Nathan put a theory to him about routing. Here's Erik's answer and the number he lands on. My theory is for the application layer, we may have a sort of phase ch...”

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AI For Humans

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

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  1. B
    “Dude, like, and I hate to dude you, but like Anthropic went down like 2 days ago, you know, for like 10 hours, or it wasn't even 10 hours, it was like 4 hours.”

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Last Week in AI

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

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  1. A
    “I mean, I guess you get unlimited money and you can do whatever you want with the money, including building data centers. So yeah. And speaking of data centers, next up, you've got a story on Anthropic. Anthropic pursues data center leases and is seeking financial backing from...”

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  2. A
    “So the move makes a lot of sense. I guess the question is, are they going to be able to actually pull this off well?”

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  3. B
    “you'll have builders who, you know, like with wild delays, like they'll come in and promise the moon and the stars.”

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Latent Space

Why the Frontier Ecosystem must be Open — Matei Zaharia and Reynold Xin, Databricks

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  1. B
    “it gets you basically almost all of the benefits of the HTAP holy grail”

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  2. C
    “Yeah, I think, I mean, I think first people can adapt to being in the larger company. So that helps. And we want to make sure they know that they can try stuff and settle debates and have a lot of examples of how it was done before or launch a thing in beta or whatever. And th...”

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  3. A
    “Very high throughput. Yeah. So when you were talking about how everyone starts with a thing and then they scale up and then they tack on other things, it's exactly that. And then I recently interviewed Simon from TurboCoffer, same thing, and Chroma as well. All the vector data...”

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AI For Humans

Seedance 2.5 Just Crushed AI Video. America Is Stalling.

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  1. B
    “But fear not, Gavin, because influencers are here to rescue us from the evils of data centers.”

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  2. D
    “We don't want any data, bro. We don't want any. Nobody wants a data center, dude. Nobody wants it.”

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  3. A
    “Yes, I, I do think it's an important thing to think about. Like, this is like— obviously Theo has a lot of thoughts about a lot of things. That's what he does. He's a podcaster. Um, this data center conversation has really escalated significantly. Right. And Theo, one of the c...”

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The AI Daily Brief

The Right Way to Deal With AI Data Centers

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  1. A
    “Now, for anyone who's been paying attention to the quantum story, it is honestly a little hard to tell exactly where the state of the technology is, nor is it particularly easy with this administration to know at any given time what the motivations behind an executive order ar...”

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  2. A
    “They said that the deal signals their strategic importance in the frontier AI ecosystem, and that more compute would give them more runway to develop leading open models. Now, Reflection is yet to release their first frontier model, but has been working with government partner...”

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    “OutSystems. Build your agentic future. Welcome back to the AI Daily Brief. Today we're going to take advantage of a slightly slower news cycle in which everyone is somewhere between sitting on their hands waiting for Fable 5 to return, or going full open-source tinkerer buildi...”

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