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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

Research

New models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.

Trend this week

2 of 2 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 18.5% to 21.6%, with evidence across 10 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 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 10 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 · 5 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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  1. A
    “Yeah. The, at the last stage there, when you said then you have these different targets competing with each other, are you using evolutionary AI where you're You're coming, different models produce an output and then you take the best and combine those models. Yeah. Yeah.”

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  2. B
    “we can generate millions of models, right? In a matter of minutes. But that's the beauty of it”

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  3. A
    “And again, on the underlying AI, can you talk about the different models? I mean, you said it's an ensemble of models, but can you talk about the different architectures underlying Yeah, I mean, I can't talk too much about the architecture.”

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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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  1. A
    “can run fast enough on an iPhone to be a real option for basic use cases”

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  2. C
    “delivering the reliability of much larger instances of artificial intelligence systems”

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  3. C
    “Because when you go in the real world, the distribution shifts becomes like a real thing. Imagine you deploy a robot in an open world, kind of like, let's say, an autonomous car, a flying drone, a fixed-wing vehicle. All of these systems are going to go and very, very rapidly ...”

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The AI Daily Brief

The Big Ways AI Just Changed

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  1. A
    “I think the improvement over the other models in every area is extraordinarily clear.”

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The AI Daily Brief

AI Companies Are Hiring More

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  1. A
    “The report was an update to the center's Remote Labor Index. The benchmark measures a model's ability to complete economically valuable tasks drawn from common freelance professions. The tasks include 3D modeling, architecture, graphic design, video and audio editing, data ana...”

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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
    “These are so not intro questions. This is absurd. All right, let me take this in 2 parts. I'm going to tackle the first part of this. So recent reports suggest advanced AI models can exhibit human-like behaviors such as fatigue, user preferences, sensitivity, tone. Okay, so I'...”

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Practical AI

Image Generation and Visual Intelligence with Black Forest Labs

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  1. D
    “I guess, yeah, yeah. I guess if I'm allowed, I'll do kind of at least my, the best of my knowledge overview of the last bit of time since, so obviously the field of AI and ML has been around for a while, trying to structure and learn distributions of different data. Mostly it ...”

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  2. D
    “Essentially the story I want to tell is the story between the kind of, I don't want to call it the battle that's been going on the last few years, but essentially the story between diffusion and autoregression that's been going on the last few years. So let me start by trying ...”

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  3. D
    “And with diffusion, what you're doing is you're not trying to model one, say like in language model, it's, uh, you know, you call it a token, but you assume like, okay, one word at a time. With diffusion, what you're trying to do is essentially— I'm trying to think how to tell...”

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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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