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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

Jobs

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

Trend this week

5 of 5 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 2.3% to 2.4%, with evidence across 3 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
4 cited episodes from 3 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 3 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.

6 quoted moments · 4 episodes · 3 podcasts

No Priors

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

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    “Asking for a friend, question of how you got here. Um, there is, uh, uh, an insufficient supply of researchers and people who, you know, know how to work on robotics or applied AI, uh, in the ecosystem for the recognition of all the different cool use cases you go after. Um, a...”

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Practical AI

Surviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World

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    “And I think just to scare the heck out of people, I think that we're going to see a lot of that disruption happening in the months and years ahead, because you're really looking at a situation where you have technology that is replacing exist— both existing technologies and ex...”

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  2. C
    “But I mean, IBM is just one significant company in multiple industries with lots and lots of companies that are essentially taking that enterprise software approach, and they are all at risk to some degree. And I think that's going to continue to play out in the marketplace. S...”

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  3. C
    “I think so. And I think those are good callouts in terms of You know, you're looking at enterprise software companies struggling because people are starting to realize what's happening and not going to happen happening. And so I think to your point, there also needs to be a re...”

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Latent Space

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

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    “So the story once and for all is very simple. We started as an American company. We have always been an American company. And early on, we made a very conscious decision. We said, we're not going to hire any researchers in the Bay Area. We're going to actually look for talent ...”

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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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  1. C
    “How do you see the role of the scientist changing in the age of AI? And you may Because your focus is not language models themselves and agentic science and things like that, then you may have a slightly different take. You're building these very specific models. But still, on...”

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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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