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18 AI-focused podcasts currently tracked18 AI podcasts

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  • 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

Safety & governance attention fell sharply while infrastructure gained ground

Across 21 episodes from 12 contributing podcasts, safety & governance fell 13.9 points to 2.6% while infrastructure rose 6.1 points to 8.3%.

The TL;DR

What changed
Adoption Use Cases fell 2.3 points and Research rose 3.1 points.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Research, and Agents accounted for 63% of the relevant conversation across 21 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 stayed near its recent level. It made up 28% of the conversation across 12 podcasts this week.About the same28% of this week · 12 podcasts
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.Discussion of research grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 22% of the conversation across 10 podcasts this week.Gaining attention22% of this week · 10 podcasts
  3. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.Discussion of agents grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 13% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.Gaining attention13% of this week · 9 podcasts
  4. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.Discussion of infrastructure grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 8% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.Gaining attention8% of this week · 7 podcasts
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  1. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.Discussion of economics stayed near its recent level. It made up 8% of the conversation across 10 podcasts this week.About the same8% of this week · 10 podcasts
  2. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.Discussion of regulation stayed near its recent level. It made up 6% of the conversation across 4 podcasts this week.About the same6% of this week · 4 podcasts
  3. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.Discussion of hardware grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 6% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.Gaining attention6% of this week · 7 podcasts
  4. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.Discussion of open models eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 3% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.Losing attention3% of this week · 7 podcasts
  5. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.Discussion of jobs stayed near its recent level. It made up 3% of the conversation across 5 podcasts this week.About the same3% of this week · 5 podcasts
  6. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.Discussion of safety & governance eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 3% of the conversation across 6 podcasts this week.Losing attention3% of this week · 6 podcasts
  7. OtherAI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.Discussion of other stayed near its recent level. It made up 1% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.About the same1% of this week · 7 podcasts
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From Jun 29–Jul 5, 2026

About this Concept

Adoption Use Cases

Practical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.

Trend this week

2 of 2 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 30.1% to 27.8%, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Big Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Si...” and “Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Devi...”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 12 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 · 4 podcasts

Eye on AI

Big Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI

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    “Yeah. And also, you're talking about big pharma, but what's happening are there are smaller companies, labs that are developing molecules or drugs, and they bring them all the way up through phase 1, phase 2 trial, and then sell them to big pharma. Is that affecting that strat...”

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    “We discovered the biological drivers of those diseases. We believe we've discovered the genes that drive depression”

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  3. B
    “And, I had relationships with Johns Hopkins University. I did my MBA there and I was a mentor in residence. As well. And, you know, I was hunting around and it turned out that they had a subsidiary called the Applied Physics Lab or APL. And, you know, one thing led to another ...”

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The Cognitive Revolution

Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models

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    “We are ranked number 5, actually, in the US from the number of downloads. the popularity perspective, we have over 1 million downloads per week on Hugging Face. That's a lot of downloads of these small models that we are building. They're very popular. The top ones from the US...”

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    “Okay, so let's fast forward to the present. You guys are now in the market working with customers. One notable conversation I heard with one of your customers was with the CTO of Shopify, by on the Latent Space podcast, who had some very good things to say about you and your t...”

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    “Yeah, 100%. Think about places where you have to bring in latency to, you know, like computation has to happen like in microseconds. So you cannot really afford to have like larger computational complexity. You want to have the most simple type of system that actually handles ...”

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The AI Daily Brief

The Big Ways AI Just Changed

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    “Uber made headlines when it set a $1,500 per month cap on AI spend. And these stories and the others like them reinforced the idea that token efficiency and token discipline were going to become important new aspects of the AI landscape, particularly in the enterprise. And sta...”

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    “Now, obviously one of the big themes of 2026 has been harness engineering, kicking off from OpenCLAW and running right on through. So in some ways that's nothing new, but there were a slew of new features and announcements and experiments that really put a fine point on all of...”

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    “Fable 5 was the first model that made it feel fairly insignificant, not only to start those big coding projects, but to just finish them as well.”

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The AI Daily Brief

AI Companies Are Hiring More

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    “Elvis Sun wrote, Fable 5 is so effing good. Here's everything I did in the last 2 hours: 1. Audit my business, found 3 high ROI tactical things to work on, mostly narrowing down on retention and acquisition levers. 2, solved my hardest backend problem that Codex and Opus were ...”

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Eye on AI

AI Agents Are Failing and It's Almost Never the Model's Fault | Alberto Pan, Denodo

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  1. A
    “The adoption by enterprise of both generative AI and agentic AI has been much slower than a lot of people anticipated. They don't trust the AI.”

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  2. B
    “Most companies, most organizations, as you know, during the last 2 years, they have been doing pilots around AI, right?”

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  3. A
    “How long is it going to be before all large enterprises are using agentic AI and all relevant processes.”

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No Priors

How Nuclear Will Unlock Energy Abundance with Valar Atomics Founder Isaiah Taylor

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  1. B
    “instead, that human will be able to coordinate hundreds of robots, right? So their personal output will go from picking up an object and putting it onto a tray to essentially picking up 100 objects”

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Signals to keep watching

Topics whose movement across recent reports may matter beyond this week.

Safety & governance

Losing attention

Safety & governance cooled

Its share fell from 16.5% last week to 2.6% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks16.5%This week2.6%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Infrastructure

Gaining attention

Infrastructure gained ground

Its share grew from 2.2% last week to 8.3% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks2.2%This week8.3%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Agents

Gaining attention

Agents gained ground

Its share grew from 7.9% last week to 13.3% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks7.9%This week13.3%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Hardware

Gaining attention

Hardware gained ground

Its share grew from 2.4% last week to 6.2% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks2.4%This week6.2%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Research

Gaining attention

Research gained ground

Its share grew from 18.5% last week to 21.6% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks18.5%This week21.6%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Adoption Use Cases

Losing attention

Adoption Use Cases cooled

Its share fell from 30.1% last week to 27.8% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks30.1%This week27.8%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

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