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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

Jobs

How AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.

Trend this week

3 of 3 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 2.8% to 4.7%, with evidence across 8 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “How to Help People Thrive with AI” and “AI:AM Highlights: Exploring the J-Space, AI Superforecasters, SambaNova's...”.
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.

12 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

The AI Daily Brief

How to Help People Thrive with AI

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    “Now in the pre-AI world, while the list was never-ending, there were reasonable stopping points on that list. What changed with AI and agents specifically is that now that you can effectively duplicate yourself through agents, it feels as though there should never be any downt...”

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    “The people who find it unpleasant to think hard and take any opportunity not to do it. In the middle are the people who have a medium need for cognition. They will put in the effort when they really care about something, but they don't intrinsically enjoy it. Need for cognitio...”

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    “And another study from Possibility Sciences, which found that gamma wave activity, a sign of cognitive effort, dropped by roughly 40% when people were using AI. And in his estimation, concerningly, this reduction in cognitive activity he thinks will have predictable effects on...”

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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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    “He's like, the FTEs are coming in, and they're not there to help you. They're there to absorb your workflows. And once they absorb your workflows, you won't have a business because it'll be taken. And it's true. It's absolutely true. That's what— we spoke to 2 OpenAI FTEs.”

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No Priors

Travel Through the Lens of AI with with Booking.com CEO Glenn Fogel

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  1. B
    “there's this claimed jobs apocalypse”

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    “So it is really interesting. I mean, we take it in terms of the general sense of technology being job replacement. That's something that's happened forever. We look at the way the agrarian societies went more towards urbanization as technology advanced, Industrial Revolution. ...”

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  3. A
    “And the customer service, 40 languages and all that. It's wonderful. And there were a lot of people involved in that because all the translation— this is now, oh, it's like 2005— all the translations are being done by human beings. There's no machine translation at all. And al...”

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AI Today Podcast

10 Years of AI: What Changed, What Didn't, and What's Next with Kathleen Walch

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  1. A
    “The media is making it out to be something that it's not.”

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    “And that has been such an incredible journey. The podcast has given me so many skills personally and professionally, right? It's helped me become a much better public speaker, which is something I'm so grateful for. The podcast has provided a lot of opportunities for me to int...”

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    “And so LLMs and AI in general does not eliminate the need for project management. They make good project management more important than ever, right? And it makes this idea of having these technical project managers, these folks that know how to run and manage AI projects follo...”

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Eye on AI

The Biggest AI Security Problem Isn't the Model. It's This. | Devvret Rishi

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    “There's a question about like, will AI agents and AI like cause job displacement? AI may not, but someone who knows AI.”

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Training Data

Inside Zipline's Autonomous System: 140M Miles, Zero Incidents

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    “It's cool how robots enable humans to uplevel, right? The human is still getting to strategically manage the system.”

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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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