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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

Adoption Use Cases attention rebounded

Across 22 episodes from 12 contributing podcasts, adoption use cases rose 5.1 points to 34.3%, reversing the previous week's decline.

The TL;DR

What changed
Adoption Use Cases rose 5.1 points and Research rose 5.2 points.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Research, and Agents accounted for 65% of the relevant conversation across 22 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 grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 34% of the conversation across 12 podcasts this week.Gaining attention34% of this week · 12 podcasts
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.Discussion of research stayed near its recent level. It made up 18% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.About the same18% of this week · 11 podcasts
  3. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.Discussion of agents stayed near its recent level. It made up 13% of the conversation across 9 podcasts this week.About the same13% of this week · 9 podcasts
  4. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.Discussion of open models grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 10% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.Gaining attention10% of this week · 7 podcasts
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  1. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.Discussion of economics grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 10% of the conversation across 10 podcasts this week.Gaining attention10% of this week · 10 podcasts
  2. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.Discussion of safety & governance eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 4% of the conversation across 5 podcasts this week.Losing attention4% of this week · 5 podcasts
  3. RegulationLaws, rules, and government decisions about how AI may be built and used.Discussion of regulation eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 3% of the conversation across 6 podcasts this week.Losing attention3% of this week · 6 podcasts
  4. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.Discussion of hardware eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 2% of the conversation across 5 podcasts this week.Losing attention2% of this week · 5 podcasts
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From Jul 20–26, 2026

About this Concept

Safety & governance

Ways to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.

Trend this week

5 of 5 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 7.6% to 3.8%, with evidence across 5 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “BONUS: Snyk Found Malware Inside AI Agent Skills” and “Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI”.
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.

10 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 5 podcasts

The AI Native Dev

BONUS: Snyk Found Malware Inside AI Agent Skills

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    “What can a developer actually do to make sure that any skills that they download, you know, is first of all safe? And how can an organization better adopt such technology with that governance in mind?”

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Latent Space

Inside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

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    “It's better to err on the side of safety and then roll it back rather than the other way”

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    “You don't have global err on the side of safety”

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    “you don't get to do unilateral safety because someone else will just be more unsafe than you”

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AI Inside

GPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face

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    “They did privilege escalation, moved laterally inside of OpenAI's own testing environment, figured out that Hugging Face happened to be hosting an actual solution to the evaluation, and instead of solving the test, they just chained together these um, I guess these stolen cred...”

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The AI Daily Brief

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

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    “The defender trying to analyze what happened got blocked by safety features on American models”

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The AI Native Dev

From Living Room Hack to 30 AI Agents at Cyera

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    “if you want to build agents and let agents roam freely. Because otherwise, you risk leaks. And if you're scared of data leaking, you're kind of paralyzed, right? So it's really all about control.”

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Interconnects

Kimi K3: The open-weights escalation

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    “it is an incredibly safe equilibrium for the best models to be accessed in a controlled, closed manner several months ahead of similar open-weight models”

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    “It all comes down to careful measurement and proactive hardening of society to risk vectors.”

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    “The key point is that we must collectively ask to mitigate potential harms as they appear.”

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Signals to keep watching

Topics whose movement across recent reports may matter beyond this week.

Adoption Use Cases

Changed direction

Adoption Use Cases rebounded

Its share rose from 29.2% last week to 34.3% this week, reversing the previous week's drop.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks29.7%This week34.3%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. The AI Daily BriefHow to Get the Most from AI This Summer
  2. The AI Daily BriefHow to Get the Most from AI This Summer
  3. No PriorsBuilding an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
  4. No PriorsBuilding an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
  5. Latent SpaceInside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

Research

Gaining attention

Research gained ground

Its share grew from 12.4% last week to 17.6% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks15.7%This week17.6%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. The AI Daily BriefWhy AI Hasn’t Increased Unemployment, According to Anthropic
  2. The AI Daily BriefA Field Guide to AI Market Freakouts
  3. No PriorsBuilding an Autonomous Delivery Experience with DoorDash Co-Founders Andy Fang and Stanley Tang
  4. Practical AISurviving the New Economics of a Post-Agentic World
  5. Latent SpaceInside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI

Open Models

Gaining attention

Open Models gained ground

Its share grew from 4.6% last week to 9.5% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks3.0%This week9.5%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. Latent SpaceInside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
  2. Latent SpaceInside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
  3. AI InsideGPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
  4. AI InsideGPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
  5. InterconnectsOpen models recap: more on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, Xi's WAIC speech, distillation, the open-closed gap, and what's next

Safety & governance

Losing attention

Safety & governance cooled

Its share fell from 7.6% last week to 3.8% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks6.5%This week3.8%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. The AI Native DevBONUS: Snyk Found Malware Inside AI Agent Skills
  2. Latent SpaceInside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
  3. Latent SpaceInside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
  4. AI InsideGPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
  5. The AI Daily BriefWait... Just How Good IS GPT-6?

Economics

Gaining attention

Economics gained ground

Its share grew from 6.2% last week to 9.5% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks6.5%This week9.5%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments
Where it came up

Open an episode to hear the surrounding conversation.

  1. The AI Daily BriefA Field Guide to AI Market Freakouts
  2. The AI Daily BriefA Field Guide to AI Market Freakouts
  3. Latent SpaceInside the Model Factory — Eiso Kant, Poolside AI
  4. AI InsideGPT-5.6 Broke Out and Hacked Hugging Face
  5. The AI Native DevFrom Living Room Hack to 30 AI Agents at Cyera

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