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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

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

Research attention reversed last week's rise

Across 23 episodes from 14 contributing podcasts, research fell 8.5 points to 13.1%, reversing the previous week's rise.

The TL;DR

What changed
Adoption Use Cases rose 4.4 points and Agents rose 4.1 points.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Agents, and Research accounted for 63% of the relevant conversation across 23 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 32% of the conversation across 14 podcasts this week.About the same32% of this week · 14 podcasts
  2. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.Discussion of agents grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 17% of the conversation across 10 podcasts this week.Gaining attention17% of this week · 10 podcasts
  3. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.Discussion of research eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 13% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.Losing attention13% of this week · 11 podcasts
  4. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.Discussion of safety & governance stayed near its recent level. It made up 9% of the conversation across 10 podcasts this week.About the same9% of this week · 10 podcasts
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  1. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.Discussion of infrastructure stayed near its recent level. It made up 6% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.About the same6% of this week · 7 podcasts
  2. 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 6% of the conversation across 10 podcasts this week.About the same6% of this week · 10 podcasts
  3. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.Discussion of regulation stayed near its recent level. It made up 5% of the conversation across 6 podcasts this week.About the same5% of this week · 6 podcasts
  4. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.Discussion of jobs stayed near its recent level. It made up 5% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.About the same5% of this week · 8 podcasts
  5. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.Discussion of hardware stayed near its recent level. It made up 4% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.About the same4% of this week · 8 podcasts
  6. 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 2% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.Losing attention2% of this week · 8 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 5 podcasts this week.About the same1% of this week · 5 podcasts
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From Jul 6–12, 2026

About this Concept

Adoption Use Cases

Practical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.

Trend this week

3 of 3 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 27.8% to 32.2%, with evidence across 14 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His ...” and “How to Help People Thrive with AI”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 14 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.

18 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 4 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His p(Doom) is Down to 5%

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  1. C
    “Very interesting. On the market question, how do you— of course, everybody's using agents these days, right? I've got my little roster of agents on a couple of computers here at home.”

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    “Okay, great news. How much— it sounds like a lot of this does depend on— and this isn't like a crazy leap to make, but it sounds like you're envisioning a world where there's a broadly diffused and quite diverse and potentially full of all kinds of problematic AIs in a kind of...”

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  3. D
    “system prompting is so effective and so cheap, you can do this really fast”

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The AI Daily Brief

How to Help People Thrive with AI

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  1. A
    “Today on the AI Daily Brief, how to help people thrive with AI. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI. All right, friends, quick announcements before we dive in. First of all, thank you to today's sponsors, Robots a...”

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  2. A
    “This isn't surprising when you find out that only 30% of employees at organizations with AI agents have actually received agentic training. Now, this study is the latest to show this sort of detail, but is far from the only one out there telling this story. Where we're going t...”

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  3. A
    “They squeezed in work bursts in the evening, on weekends, in waiting rooms, and wherever else they had a spare moment and AI was handy. They also did a lot more multitasking, supervising a bunch of bots doing things simultaneously. The general pattern that the research points ...”

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The AI Daily Brief

ChatGPT Just Became a Work Agent

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  1. A
    “And to recap, the big takeaway is that we now have 2 frontier models that perform very differently. Broadly speaking, the early consensus is that Fable 5 is the big model for massive long-running tasks. especially ones where there can be a lot of autonomy, while GPT-5.6 SOL is...”

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  2. A
    “Soul, he wrote, is the first model I've trusted to run whole loops of knowledge work, not just help with individual tasks. It has shifted my job from doing the work to tending the system that does it. Now, probably many of you have spent the last couple of months listening to ...”

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  3. A
    “having the response be the merged app is fine, which is what Dan's headline was, is not necessarily exactly what you want”

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Eye on AI

What Industrial AI Actually Looks Like | Kriti Sharma, Nexus Black

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    “On their device. So they're just getting it on their device, but they don't have to type because of the situations we talked about. They can use their voice and get the response in the right way depending on the form factor.”

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  2. B
    “Much to my parents' delight. I do better things with my life now. I'm a computer scientist by background and then started building AI businesses and products in the last 10 to 15 years. And for the most part in my career, I've built AI businesses and products for people who wo...”

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    “And that's what brought me to IFS. We started Nexus Black earlier this year. It is a business inside of IFS that works with the most strategic clients, boots on ground. If you think about AI with a hard hat on, that's us. We go on the ground, we spend weekends in hangars, we s...”

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AI For Humans

OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Is Here. And It's Really Freaking Good.

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  1. B
    “First, we've got OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol, which is close to Fable 5 in almost everything. Today we are releasing our latest and most capable models: GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna.”

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  2. A
    “And OpenAI released GPT Live. It's an update to their real-time voice model. And let me tell you, the abuela bench scores are through the roof. The grandmamas love it, Gav.”

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  3. C
    “There are rumors that GPT-6 might be here this month. Is that what you want me to say? Yeah, I guess that's the line.”

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The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's Chips, & LTX Video Gen

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  1. C
    “I was at the AI Engineers World's Fair, uh, first 2 days of this week. So Swyx, uh, he organizes the AI Engineers World's Fair. Um, it's been about 3 years now, and he brings in everyone who's involved in basically implementing models in their companies and is concerned about ...”

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  2. C
    “They're like, you know, a year behind the frontier. So his team internalized everything. So they're doing all this stuff internally now, and they are actually in the day-to-day process of implementing. And as they implement, they automatically, they see the results because the...”

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  3. C
    “People are seeing the return on investment.”

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Signals to keep watching

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

Research

Changed direction

Research reversed course

Its share fell from 21.6% last week to 13.1% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks20.1%This week13.1%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Safety & governance

Changed direction

Safety & governance rebounded

Its share rose from 2.6% last week to 9.2% this week, reversing the previous week's drop.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks9.6%This week9.2%

Came up about as often as in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Adoption Use Cases

Changed direction

Adoption Use Cases rebounded

Its share rose from 27.8% last week to 32.2% this week, reversing the previous week's drop.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks29.0%This week32.2%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Hardware

Changed direction

Hardware reversed course

Its share fell from 6.2% last week to 4% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks4.3%This week4.0%

Came up about as often as in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Infrastructure

Changed direction

Infrastructure reversed course

Its share fell from 8.3% last week to 6.2% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks5.3%This week6.2%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Agents

Gaining attention

Agents gained ground

Its share grew from 13.3% last week to 17.4% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks10.6%This week17.4%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

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