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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

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.

23 Episodes analyzed14 Podcasts contributed this week3 Weeks compared

All 23 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 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.

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.14 podcasts · 362 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and Eye on AI +11 more32%of this week's conversation
  2. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.10 podcasts · 197 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and Eye on AI +7 more17%of this week's conversation
  3. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.11 podcasts · 248 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and AI For Humans +8 more13%of this week's conversation
  4. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.10 podcasts · 203 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and Eye on AI +7 more9%of this week's conversation
  5. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.7 podcasts · 101 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and Practical AI +4 more6%of this week's conversation
  6. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.10 podcasts · 76 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and AI For Humans +7 more6%of this week's conversation
  7. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.6 podcasts · 90 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, Last Week in AI, and AI Inside +3 more5%of this week's conversation
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  1. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.8 podcasts · 44 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, The Cognitive Revolution, and No Priors +5 more5%of this week's conversation
  2. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.8 podcasts · 69 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, AI For Humans, and The Cognitive Revolution +5 more4%of this week's conversation
  3. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.8 podcasts · 31 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, The AI Daily Brief, and Practical AI +5 more2%of this week's conversation
  4. OtherAI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.5 podcasts · 14 relevant passagesThe Cognitive Revolution, AI Inside, and AI For Humans +2 more1%of this week's conversation
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From Jul 6–12, 2026

About this Concept

Hardware

The chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.

Trend this week

3 of 3 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 6.2% to 4%, with evidence across 8 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “ChatGPT Just Became a Work Agent” and “OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Is Here. And It's Really Freaking Good.”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 8 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 · 6 podcasts

The AI Daily Brief

ChatGPT Just Became a Work Agent

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    “Meta also plans to design a new chip every 6 months beginning next year, which would be significantly faster than the standard industry cadence.”

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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
    “I am very excited to see what this model, a really, really big model, looks like when it's hosted on Cerebras. Because I think that's gonna start changing the vibe of how you make stuff.”

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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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    “Because as the models get bigger, you now need to move the weights and of course what we call the KV cache into the compute units. And that is essentially a data movement problem, right? And it's a data movement problem from the memory to the compute units. And it's a data mov...”

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  2. E
    “It's a classic idea from computer architecture, pipelining and the use of a memory hierarchy to move the data when you need it to where you need it at the right time. And so the nice thing about these AI models is that you do have a graph of computation. And the whole idea of ...”

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    “So I think that's like one of the big surprises. And for us realizing that was like this big moment that validated something that we always strive for, is to create extremely efficient models. Because I think once you start to realize that the robot will need to create like th...”

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Last Week in AI

#251 - Mythos Back, Sonnet 5, Etched, LongCat

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  1. A
    “So it's been over half a year. Kind of surprising that they haven't doubled down initially. It was a big deal, but regardless, makes sense that we have a new generation here. And now to applications in business. First up, we've got Etched pools 400+ engineers from NVIDIA, TSMC...”

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  2. B
    “So Etched is one of those companies that they are new in terms of like seemingly coming out of nowhere and they had been working at this for about 3 years, but that's a really short period of time for being as far along as they, as they are or appear to be. So currently they a...”

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    “So this is a really big deal because usually these sorts of things will take like many, many years to pull off.”

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AI Inside

China May Lock Down Its Best AI Models

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    “Yeah, that's another one too, you know, investment opportunity also gets cut off, right? Acquisition gets cut off. So meanwhile, that's all on the software side. On the, on the hardware side, DeepSeek says they're going to develop their own AI chip, um, right? Which, which is ...”

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  2. B
    “Yeah, yeah, it's no good. Um, and every— I mean, DeepSeek's also not alone. It seems like this is another trend that's happening right now, is that there's a lot of, um, a lot of the big companies are, are trying, doing their best to create and develop their own chips, which s...”

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  3. B
    “Doing okay. Yeah, but Nvidia has definitely been the company that over the last couple of years has been very easy to be like, well, who's the winner in the room? It's Nvidia, because everybody was reliant. Now we're getting to the point to where everybody's working on their o...”

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Latent Space

Why AI Infrastructure must evolve for Agent Experience — Akshat Bubna, Modal CTO

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    “He's a well-known professor, published a lot of interesting software design books. And this is the talk he chose to submit. It's on RDMA and inference. And I'm like, you wouldn't think that this guy who is like kind of operating systems guy would care about RDMA.”

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  2. A
    “Yeah. I don't know if this is a natural follow-on to the topic of like my skepticism on distributed training. Mm-hmm. Is that, well, like people spend a lot of money on like cables to hook up GPUs and even that is not like fast enough and that's the bottleneck. Is your network...”

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  3. B
    “Yeah, so I guess you're talking about sort of fully distributed training, like Dailoco or something, which is like cross-data center.”

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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.

Research

↶ Down 8.5 points

Research reversed course

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

13.1%this week20.1%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Safety & governance

↶ Up 6.6 points

Safety & governance rebounded

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

9.2%this week9.6%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Adoption Use Cases

↶ Up 4.4 points

Adoption Use Cases rebounded

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

32.2%this week29.0%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Hardware

↶ Down 2.2 points

Hardware reversed course

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

4.0%this week4.3%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Infrastructure

↶ Down 2.1 points

Infrastructure reversed course

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

6.2%this week5.3%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Agents

↗ Up 4.1 points

Agents gained ground

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

17.4%this week10.6%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

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