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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

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%.

21 Episodes analyzed12 Podcasts contributed this week2 Weeks compared

All 21 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
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.

Inside this report

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.12 podcasts · 313 relevant passagesEye on AI, The Cognitive Revolution, and The AI Daily Brief +9 more28%of this week's conversation
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.10 podcasts · 323 relevant passagesEye on AI, The Cognitive Revolution, and The AI Daily Brief +7 more22%of this week's conversation
  3. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.9 podcasts · 151 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, and Eye on AI +6 more13%of this week's conversation
  4. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.7 podcasts · 52 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and Eye on AI +4 more8%of this week's conversation
  5. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.10 podcasts · 59 relevant passagesEye on AI, The AI Daily Brief, and No Priors +7 more8%of this week's conversation
  6. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.4 podcasts · 84 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, The Artificial Intelligence Show, and AI For Humans +1 more6%of this week's conversation
  7. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.7 podcasts · 82 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and Practical AI +4 more6%of this week's conversation
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  1. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.7 podcasts · 23 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and The Artificial Intelligence Show +4 more3%of this week's conversation
  2. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.5 podcasts · 48 relevant passagesEye on AI, The AI Daily Brief, and The Artificial Intelligence Show +2 more3%of this week's conversation
  3. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.6 podcasts · 28 relevant passagesEye on AI, The AI Daily Brief, and The Artificial Intelligence Show +3 more3%of this week's conversation
  4. OtherAI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.7 podcasts · 15 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, Machine Learning Street Talk, and Latent Space +4 more1%of this week's conversation
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From Jun 29–Jul 5, 2026

About this Concept

Open Models

AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.

Trend this week

2 of 2 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 4.9% to 2.8%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Intelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Devi...” and “The Big Ways AI Just Changed”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 7 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.

12 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

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

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  1. C
    “would cost you between tens of dollars to, let's say, low thousands of dollars to actually get you to the cloud quality for your— and with all the checks, production quality model.”

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  2. C
    “we're extremely close to get to that point.”

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The AI Daily Brief

The Big Ways AI Just Changed

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  1. A
    “And what's more, it wasn't just models like GLM 5.2 in their raw state that were getting attention, but also custom post-trained models that were built on top of those open weights, things like Cursor's Composer 2.5, which was built off of KIMI, as well as integrated architect...”

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  2. A
    “It's time you add agents that feel like teammates. Hire yours at HyperAgent, built by the team at Airtable. Claim your $1,000 in inference at hyperagent.com/AIDailyBrief. Throughout the month, we saw a ton of experimentation with routing companies that would help create more c...”

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#223: AI Answers - AI Washing, Flatter Org Charts, Advice for Students, Agent Security & the AI Writing Gap

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  1. A
    “We're just all using more intelligence to do the things that these models enable. And so the more advanced companies are starting to look at it and say, okay, well, Let's, let's just assume there's 100 tasks that we're going to use AI for this month. How many of those really n...”

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Practical AI

Image Generation and Visual Intelligence with Black Forest Labs

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  1. D
    “Yeah, yeah. I mean, I would say fundamentally, as a core, we're still a I'll say we're still like a research lab that wants to push the boundaries. So with each one of our model releases, we want to try to like level up some capability of the model, not just, you know, make a ...”

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  2. D
    “That'll, uh, be very exciting to talk about when it comes out”

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  3. D
    “Definitely. Yeah. Yeah. Happy to, happy to come back. But then we got to our Flux 2 series of models and Flux 2 was a very big upgrade for us, um, where we really pushed the capabilities, not just on T2i, but also on editing, not just on single image, but this is where we also...”

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Machine Learning Street Talk

The Benchmark With No Instructions — ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)

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  1. B
    “does that really count as the old models can play games now? it takes them so much effort. I would say that is a real gap.”

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AI Inside

RAMageddon Reshapes Tech (And It's Not Pretty)

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  1. B
    “who knows if that feels like maybe it's a little overstated here, to say the least”

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  2. C
    “maybe it's not quite as good, but it's going to be in 2 weeks, and it's free”

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  3. B
    “We've got these export controls that were meant to make sure that China doesn't get this and that. Well, guess what that does? That makes them even more likely to become self-sufficient”

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Changes across weeks

Patterns worth following

The changes that stood out compared with recent weeks. A Pattern must show up across multiple podcasts and weeks.

Safety & governance

↘ Down 13.9 points

Safety & governance cooled

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

2.6%this week16.5%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Infrastructure

↗ Up 6.1 points

Infrastructure gained ground

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

8.3%this week2.2%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Agents

↗ Up 5.4 points

Agents gained ground

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

13.3%this week7.9%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Hardware

↗ Up 3.8 points

Hardware gained ground

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

6.2%this week2.4%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Research

↗ Up 3.1 points

Research gained ground

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

21.6%this week18.5%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Adoption Use Cases

↘ Down 2.3 points

Adoption Use Cases cooled

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

27.8%this week30.1%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

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