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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

Research

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

Trend this week

3 of 3 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 21.6% to 13.1%, with evidence across 11 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 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 11 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.

16 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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    “Well, I want to qualify that because Yes, in the specific sense that the assumptions on which the proof is grounded are going to be purely symbolic, kind of comprehensible scientific models. But the proof, which, as I said, could be incomprehensibly complex, could involve neur...”

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    “We, we are tapping into that a little bit. So there, there's a, a proof assistant called Colon, which is actually on GitHub. Again, it's like very, very early, but it's starting to be coded now. And that's gonna be the proof assistant for Safeguarded AI. It's kind of a databas...”

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    “more of the overall influence on the training trajectory will come from these facts that humanity has learned about what is good.”

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The AI Daily Brief

ChatGPT Just Became a Work Agent

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    “Sources said the platform was rolled out internally in June. However, it's still unclear whether it will get the green light for a public release or when that would happen. Certainly, the product suggests that Cursor, now part of SpaceX AI, is looking to grow beyond their trad...”

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    “OpenAI has released ChatGPT Work, and we are going to talk about what that means in first impressions. But first, let's finally catch up on the now fully released GPT-5.6 model family. Now, this is the first time that OpenAI has split their model family into a set of classes. ...”

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    “for Meta, who have struggled to produce a viable LLM since Llama 3, this is a big improvement”

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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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    “All right, we're gonna do a quick look at some of the basics here. Uh, 5.6 Pro SOL is out along with Terra and Luna. Now, SOL is only available for paid users. Terra and Luna will be available for free. That is kind of the medium and low. It's kind of imagine in the Claude wor...”

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    “Here's the thing I will say about this. So one of the things that's interesting, and I think if people— is important for them to remember, and this goes to the 17 thing as well, is like, this is a new model in that like it is not just repeating or reading what it's coming out ...”

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    “I'm always late for the podcast. bleaching with my bros, but that's all good. All right. They're staying on the benches. They're staying bleached because this, the, the story here is one that we've yapped about before with like thinking that OpenAI was gonna go in these direct...”

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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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    “What strikes me is also that I went through some of the reactions. The backstory to this is that Anthropic had 3 teams to review this. One was a group of neuroscientists who had previously done work on these concepts. One was a team from Ilios AI, a research organization. And ...”

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    “Yeah, the AIs, they're just like us, it turns out, or at least similar enough to be in some sort of weird kind of looking glass similarity anyway. I mean, it's a lot to take in, the whole J-Space thing, 150-page paper, 50 pages of commentary, summaries, interactive demos. When...”

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    “And the J-lens is the cheap probe that reads what's in it. We start with how the J-lens actually works and how much it actually sees.”

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The AI Daily Brief

How the 4 New AI Models Change How You Work

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    “Now that particular choice I also think reflects one of the big underlying points of this announcement, which is an evolution in how they imagine consumers interacting with AI. We'll come to that in just a minute though, let's talk about the actual model that was released firs...”

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    “this makes for a conversational experience that's a lot closer to what you get when you're interacting in a normal human-to-human conversation”

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  3. A
    “So basically, as the GPT Live model is doing that interaction, it can summon another model like GPT-5.5, or now going forward, 5.6, to go take care of a task like searching or reasoning, even as it keeps the conversation going. Now, you might remember a couple months ago when ...”

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Practical AI

Building Durable AI Agents

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    “It's very much, I mean, I remember just when I would teach workshops and just talking about ML models or single LLM calls, I would get pushback saying like, well, how do we test these things like rigorously, right? They're non-deterministic and they like, I, they could return ...”

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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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