The AI conversation, week by week
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

Other

AI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.

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 0.9% of the conversation, with evidence across 9 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle” and “The Capability Overhang Playbook”.
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

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

14 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

Machine Learning Street Talk

The Thermodynamic AI Computing Chip - Thomas Ahle

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    “It's not just that it's getting smarter, it's also that humans are getting dumber.”

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    “Right. Yeah. And they had this ban. It's like a 1-year ban if you have a hallucinated citation. Yeah, but it's, yeah, it's sad in a way because it makes it harder, especially for, for new people and like young people to, to break into that stuff, like, because then they don't ...”

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The AI Daily Brief

The Capability Overhang Playbook

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    “So my proposal is that during this forced AI pause where we have a little bit of a breather in terms of the next new thing, This is a good time to try to both in our individual and organizational lives close the capability overhang at least a little bit. So what I'm going to d...”

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    “Those in the know suggested it wasn't just OpenAI pushing back release plans, but Google as well. Leo @SynthWaved, who is quickly becoming the go-to rumor monger on X, wrote, GPT-5.6 has been delayed and will no longer release this week. New target is mid-July. DeepMind are no...”

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AI For Humans

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

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    “American AI companies keep delaying their latest and greatest models.”

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Last Week in AI

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

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    “It's never clear to me what that even is supposed to mean”

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    “It's a lot of good data, but like the morale consequences, that's challenging.”

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    “Yeah, no, for sure. I, yeah, I'm not a robotics guy. It's something that I need to look into more because it's so it's so core to like US-China competition. China can just like make robots in a way that we can't. And so you can sort of think of any advances, any software advan...”

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AI Inside

Meta's Data Center on Your Face

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    “3, it's as much about personality as it is about technology.”

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    “It's just software, folks. It's just a program. It's not magic. It's not God. Uh, it's not AGI.”

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    “the water gets kind of murky”

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Latent Space

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

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    “And a lot of those were thanks to agents and branching experimentation.”

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    “The last thing I was going to leave, actually, I'm sequencing this, so I'm actually kind of proud of myself. Satya is talking about this. I interviewed him at Microsoft Build a couple of weeks ago, and then he wrote this essay, which I'm sure you've seen, which is talking abou...”

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    “And then that's what we're doing. And more things will transition from being custom to not, but that's sort of how it is today.”

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