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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

Infrastructure

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

Trend this week

5 of 5 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 9.3% to 2.2%, with evidence across 4 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “A Field Guide to AI Market Freakouts” and “Building an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy...”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 4 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 4 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.

11 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 4 podcasts

The AI Daily Brief

A Field Guide to AI Market Freakouts

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  1. A
    “there is literally zero evidence of this”

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No Priors

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

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  1. B
    “It's not just you plop a robot in, or even AI, just plop an LLM in, and then things just magically happen.”

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Latent Space

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

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  1. B
    “Is that at any given moment, the changes that somebody made that they had experimental results on from the day before make it into that run. So there's not like a cutoff 90 days before, or like, no, it's like literally from that moment because we can now trust the machine enou...”

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  2. B
    “And we looked at this like 3 years ago and we were like, that makes no sense.”

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  3. B
    “Right. And it's actually not a lot, right. From like a data moving data perspective. So we said, well, we have our training cluster and then we've got like our AWS kind of setup where we can build these amazing big data pipelines. We can set things up. We use Spark underneath ...”

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The AI Daily Brief

Wait... Just How Good IS GPT-6?

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  1. A
    “Another product under development is an AI tour guide that integrates with Apple CarPlay and Instagram Maps. Regarding the token router, it seems like it began as an internal product designed to reduce costs at Meta. The memo explained, We pay top-model prices for every coding...”

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  2. A
    “there is a lot of opportunity for competition for Google in areas that they've already started to explore”

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AI For Humans

Is Google Gemini In Trouble?

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  1. A
    “Look, in between the whole, hey, we're drinking up the ocean, even though I think that's factory farming and golf, but whatever. In between the, we're drinking up the ocean and we're putting up data centers which are making people ill with their low frequency waves. In between...”

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The AI Daily Brief

The Fight Over Which AI Models You Can Use

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  1. A
    “Now, to the extent that we are trying to take the conversation forward, in a weekend piece for the American Enterprise Institute, Ryan Fedoseev added an important aspect to the conversation. He noted that, yes, the conventional wisdom around how far behind the US Chinese front...”

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    “Frontier AI is quickly becoming a commons. The race now is to build industrial systems that put the frontier to work. Now reinforcing the point that China is severely compute constrained, Moonshot pulled Kimi K3 over the weekend. On Sunday they posted, Kimi K3 has received far...”

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    “Council on Foreign Relations' Chris McGuire jumped all over this, writing, KIMI admits it is compute constrained and is struggling to serve K3. The same thing happened to DeepSeek when it released V4. When Chinese AI labs say their number one constraint is compute, they aren't...”

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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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