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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.

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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.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

Other

AI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.

Trend this week

2 of 2 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 0.9% to 0.7%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Fable is Back: Here's What You Should Try First” and “The Benchmark With No Instructions — ARC-AGI-3 (winning team!)”.
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.

9 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The AI Daily Brief

Fable is Back: Here's What You Should Try First

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    “It would be a bad outcome if every release after this level of threshold of capability required the same review process and we don't get the same rate of breakthroughs we've been seeing. Now, one of the reasons that I think people were willing to extend that benefit of the dou...”

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    “Lex on X wrote, LMFAO, this cannot be a real statement from Anthropic. Routine tasks like coding, skull emoji. They've lost their minds. Do they think people are paying an absurdly high price just for the privilege? Now, Tariq from the Claude Code team came on to clarify that ...”

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Machine Learning Street Talk

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

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    “I think the easiest is just go work at Anthropic. That's the easiest. I have a sense, I cannot prove anything, that this is the time things start to get weird.”

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Latent Space

🔬 The Coolest Diffusion Research Isn't in LLMs — Evan Feinberg & Sergey Edunov, Genesis Molecular AI

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    “There, there's this, the classic concept of the narrative fallacy where in retrospect, It's everything seems obvious and you can draw really linear, you know, processes of how we got from point A to point Z. But the reality is always more interesting and much, much messier and...”

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AI For Humans

Claude Sonnet 5 Is Here & Fable 5's Returning. For Now.

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    “Ah, yeah, big but, and my anaconda don't want none. OpenAI's new model, GPT-5.6 Sol, isn't going to be available for who knows how long, because now, Gavin, we live in the weird realm of jailed models.”

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AI Inside

RAMageddon Reshapes Tech (And It's Not Pretty)

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    “there's no indication that that is exactly what would happen”

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#222: GPT-5.6, Government Staggers AI Model Releases, Agents Are Transforming Work & Growing Data Center Backlash

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    “Right. And then that applies to all the other frontier intelligence capabilities that— Yeah.”

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    “They have initial deployment targeted for the end of 2026. Anthropic launched a feature called Claude Tag in beta. This is a Slack integration that lets teams tag Claude as a collaborator in a channel so it can pull context from the conversation, use connected tools, and compl...”

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    “It's just gonna boom, and all of a sudden it just goes.”

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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
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. Eye on AIBig Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI
  2. The AI Daily BriefThe Big Ways AI Just Changed
  3. The AI Daily BriefAI Companies Are Hiring More
  4. Eye on AIAI Agents Are Failing and It's Almost Never the Model's Fault | Alberto Pan, Denodo
  5. Eye on AIAI Agents Are Failing and It's Almost Never the Model's Fault | Alberto Pan, Denodo

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
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  2. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  3. The AI Daily BriefThe Big Ways AI Just Changed
  4. The AI Daily BriefAI Companies Are Hiring More
  5. The AI Daily BriefAI Companies Are Hiring More

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
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. The AI Daily BriefThe Job Positions of the AI Future
  2. The AI Daily BriefThe Job Positions of the AI Future
  3. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  4. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  5. The AI Daily BriefAI Companies Are Hiring More

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
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  2. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  3. The AI Daily BriefAI Companies Are Hiring More
  4. Practical AIImage Generation and Visual Intelligence with Black Forest Labs
  5. Latent Space🔬 The Coolest Diffusion Research Isn't in LLMs — Evan Feinberg & Sergey Edunov, Genesis Molecular AI

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
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. Eye on AIBig Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI
  2. Eye on AIBig Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI
  3. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  4. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  5. The AI Daily BriefThe Big Ways AI Just Changed

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
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. Eye on AIBig Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI
  2. Eye on AIBig Pharma Fails 50% of the Time in Phase Three. AI Can Fix That | Vin Singh, BullFrog AI
  3. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  4. The Cognitive RevolutionIntelligence on the Edge: Liquid AI's Ramin Hasani on the Search for Device-Native Foundation Models
  5. The AI Daily BriefThe Big Ways AI Just Changed

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