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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 surged while infrastructure fell back

Across 10 episodes from 6 contributing podcasts, research rose 12 points to 24.4% while infrastructure fell 7.1 points to 2.2%.

10 Episodes analyzed6 Podcasts contributed this week5 Weeks compared

All 10 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 4.7 points and Research rose 12 points.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Research, and Agents accounted for 69% of the relevant conversation across 10 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.6 podcasts · 140 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, No Priors, and Practical AI +3 more34%of this week's conversation
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.6 podcasts · 195 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, No Priors, and Practical AI +3 more24%of this week's conversation
  3. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.5 podcasts · 39 relevant passagesNo Priors, Practical AI, and Latent Space +2 more10%of this week's conversation
  4. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.4 podcasts · 31 relevant passagesPractical AI, Latent Space, and The AI Daily Brief +1 more9%of this week's conversation
  5. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.5 podcasts · 37 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, No Priors, and Practical AI +2 more9%of this week's conversation
  6. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.4 podcasts · 24 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, Practical AI, and Latent Space +1 more4%of this week's conversation
  7. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.3 podcasts · 14 relevant passagesNo Priors, Latent Space, and AI For Humans3%of this week's conversation
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  1. JobsHow AI is changing work, hiring, roles, and the skills people need.3 podcasts · 6 relevant passagesNo Priors, Practical AI, and Latent Space2%of this week's conversation
  2. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.4 podcasts · 17 relevant passagesThe AI Daily Brief, No Priors, and Latent Space +1 more2%of this week's conversation
  3. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.2 podcasts · 20 relevant passagesLatent Space and The AI Daily Brief2%of this week's conversation
  4. OtherAI discussion that does not fit another recurring topic.2 podcasts · 3 relevant passagesPractical AI and AI For Humans1%of this week's conversation
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From Jul 20–26, 2026

About this Concept

Agents

AI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.

Trend this week

5 of 5 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 15.9% to 10.4%, with evidence across 5 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy...” and “Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 5 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 · 5 podcasts

No Priors

Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang

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    “So for Ask DoorDash, I would say to start with, maybe that's like the next couple months or so, I think it's making it easier for people to discover the experience and, like, figure out what to do. Because I think it can be intimidating if you just see, like, hey, like, there'...”

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    “What could my agent know about what I want to eat or what I want to, um, buy from a grocery perspective? Like, help me understand, like, how you think about richer context or how to be smarter there.”

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    “And so that was kind of like, I mean, it's something we talk about more later, but like kind of our like early experimentation with our CLI is like, that's kind of an example of like making it less friction for an agent to kind of, like, participate in that experience.”

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Practical AI

Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World

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    “So I wasn't at all surprised about this in that way. Like, I didn't know that IBM would do this, but so it's something I've been thinking about quite a lot lately. And it's something that I know I've mentioned this to you. I'll mention it without any names. I'm in discussions ...”

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    “Yeah, I think that that also becomes, I mean, there's platforms like Unsloth and others that allow you to fine-tune even on your MacBook and run things a lot more efficiently. So I think that also gets to some of what This was the episode that I recorded when you were out on v...”

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    “it completely changes the value proposition for a lot of enterprise software out there because you suddenly have a new capability that in many cases can do things that traditional enterprise software just can't touch.”

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Latent Space

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

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    “How do you think about building it with like working with a harness, right? So open code, Codex, you have your own pool CLI tool, basically getting people to use it, the co-design of model harness. Training it in?”

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    “It's perfect for agents because agents are now starting to take over more and more work in our model factory.”

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    “You're starting to kind of see these twinklings of what RSI is going to look like.”

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AI For Humans

Is Google Gemini In Trouble?

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    “The robots have solved laundry!”

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    “if it can do that, It can do things like your taxes, or it could do things like all, you know, all sorts of complicated stuff. And then we have reached an insanely useful way that AI can help everybody.”

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Latent Space

🔬Causal Models Need Causal Data - Xaira’s X-Cell model for Drug Discovery (Bo Wang & Ci Chu, Chief Discovery Officer & Chief AI Scientist)

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    “with the era of agentic AI, now everybody can code”

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    “This is why we need academic training where you get into a field you know nothing about, and hopefully after you graduate, become the expert about this particular topic in the world. Right. This is why you have to go through different programs to talk to your peers, talk to yo...”

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The AI Daily Brief

How to Get the Most Out of Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 Sol

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    “And the rest of the thrust of Tariq's post is to point out that, in his words, planning ahead isn't enough. And instead that, in his words, working with Fable is an iterative process of discovering my unknowns before, during, and after implementation. So what are examples of t...”

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    “You don't know when the path will be filled with obstacles, and you don't know when the path will be clear, but you still want Claude to veer. Claude can help you discover your unknowns faster. The most important part, he says, is to give Claude context about your starting poi...”

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    “Other times I don't even know how to measure the thing I want, so I hand that problem to Fable too. Now Matt continues, once there's a bar, I put Fable on a loop against it and let it go. It builds, checks itself, finds the biggest gap, closes it, and goes again. Matt says tha...”

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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.

Infrastructure

↶ Down 7.1 points

Infrastructure reversed course

Its share fell from 9.3% last week to 2.2% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

2.2%this week7.9%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Adoption Use Cases

↶ Up 4.7 points

Adoption Use Cases rebounded

Its share rose from 29.2% last week to 33.9% this week, reversing the previous week's drop.

33.9%this week29.7%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Regulation

↶ Down 3.1 points

Regulation reversed course

Its share fell from 7.1% last week to 4% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

4.0%this week6.1%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Research

↗ Up 12 points

Research gained ground

Its share grew from 12.4% last week to 24.4% this week.

24.4%this week15.7%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Agents

↘ Down 5.5 points

Agents cooled

Its share fell from 15.9% last week to 10.4% this week.

10.4%this week15.5%recent average
Podcast moments5 cited moments

Safety & governance

↘ Down 5.4 points

Safety & governance cooled

Its share fell from 7.6% last week to 2.2% this week.

2.2%this week6.5%recent average
Podcast moments4 cited moments

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