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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

Infrastructure

The software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.

Trend this week

3 of 3 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 8.3% to 6.2%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Alignment with Awakening: Davidad on Moral Realism, AI Wisdom, & why His ...” and “ChatGPT Just Became a Work Agent”.
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.

14 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 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. D
    “I do not think that the hyperscalers who own the compute have a huge amount of power”

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The AI Daily Brief

ChatGPT Just Became a Work Agent

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  1. A
    “Essentially, this is an independent oversight and advisory board that sits on top of Anthropic's normal board of directors. Importantly, the Benefit Trust has the power to elect or remove one member of the corporate board, which escalates to 2 and then 3 according to time and ...”

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    “Adding another gigawatt suggests Meta's plans are still ticking along at a rapid pace”

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  3. A
    “Now overall, the sentiment towards FiveSix SOL is extremely positive, and it feels to me like to some extent it's also being the beneficiary of the fact that heading into the Fable 5 ban, OpenAI kind of had all the momentum when it came to the most enfranchised AI users. Codex...”

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Practical AI

Building Durable AI Agents

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  1. C
    “Awesome. That's, I think, a great one to start with. And thank you for inviting me on the show. I appreciate the opportunity. So I co-founded ZenML. about 5 years ago. So this was really almost at a point where MLOps was really reaching fever pitch on, there was all sorts of c...”

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    “So I think if anything, even if you throw away every other tool that we ever used in MLOps, the principles and the learnings that we took from productionalizing these applications at scale still translate and are being rediscovered even at the AIE Worlds where I sometimes hear...”

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    “Yeah. So, so the first thing is you need to pick your harness or you need to give your teams the ability to create, you know, using an agentic framework, whatever, let's say you're using LangGraph or Pydantic AI or something like that. Then you need to deploy it onto some comp...”

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Last Week in AI

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

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  1. B
    “There's a lot that we're learning from this paper in terms of the algorithmic improvements that make this thing tick. So you mentioned, you know, massive model, 1.6 trillion parameters, 48 billion activated per token. I mean, 48 billion. I remember when 48 billion parameters f...”

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    “And break it up into different subproblems that you can farm out to different GPUs. And traditional version of this is like, you know, data parallelism, for example, you take all the prompts that are coming in, you give some prompts to some machines and other prompts to other ...”

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    “And so you can't hold them all in memory on one machine. And so now it's like just every end of incremental GPU is holding such a small fraction of the problem. This thing really is starting to look like a hive. It only makes sense when you zoom out and kind of look at it at m...”

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Latent Space

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

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  1. B
    “Yeah, that's the idea. And so I guess when you mentioned colocation, that's another interesting thing where one thing we've seen is people come to us when they want very specifically located CPUs or GPUs. Like they want—”

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  2. A
    “Like just an open socket. This is directly like mTLS.”

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  3. B
    “I actually first met Eric, who's the CEO, through an investor. And back then, Eric was already thinking about building a new kind of runtime. And he got there thinking through why are workflow orchestration products so hard to use? It's because you have to run them on Kubernet...”

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The AI Native Dev

Inside Anthropic: How Claude Tag Is Changing Agentic Work

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    “how much is this translating into actual impact for people?”

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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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