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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

Safety & governance attention rebounded

Across 24 episodes from 13 contributing podcasts, safety & governance rose 12.7 points to 16.5%, reversing the previous week's decline.

The TL;DR

What changed
Adoption Use Cases fell 5.2 points and Research rose 1.7 points.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Research, and Safety & governance accounted for 65% of the relevant conversation across 24 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 29% of the conversation across 12 podcasts this week.About the same29% of this week · 12 podcasts
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.Discussion of research grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 19% of the conversation across 10 podcasts this week.Gaining attention19% of this week · 10 podcasts
  3. Safety & governanceWays to reduce harm, set limits, test behavior, and govern how AI is used.Discussion of safety & governance grew compared with recent weeks. It made up 17% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.Gaining attention17% of this week · 8 podcasts
  4. AgentsAI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.Discussion of agents stayed near its recent level. It made up 15% of the conversation across 12 podcasts this week.About the same15% of this week · 12 podcasts
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  1. Open ModelsAI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.Discussion of open models stayed near its recent level. It made up 7% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.About the same7% of this week · 7 podcasts
  2. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.Discussion of economics eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 5% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.Losing attention5% of this week · 7 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 3% of the conversation across 5 podcasts this week.About the same3% of this week · 5 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 2% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.About the same2% of this week · 7 podcasts
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From Jul 27–Aug 2, 2026

About this Concept

Adoption Use Cases

Practical ways people and organizations are putting AI to work.

Trend this week

6 of 6 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 34.3% to 29.1%, with evidence across 12 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Foun...” and “Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security L...”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 12 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.

14 quoted moments · 6 episodes · 6 podcasts

No Priors

Building an Autonomous Enterprise for Real-World Services with Netic Founder Melisa Tokmak

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    “that is many customers how they started, but today actually over 70% of our customers are AI first. We call it Netik first. They go N1, uh, and over 70%, actually all of their customers' first interaction with the company is with Netik agents.”

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    “just one of the businesses we closed, it can be like a half a million contract and it took from end to end 14 days.”

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    “How well do you, or how do you view private equity firms as responding to this wave of AI? I think there are varying opinions in terms of everything from people are really leaning in and they're trying new things, and in some cases they're hiring deploy companies, they're work...”

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The Cognitive Revolution

Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security Leaderboard

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    “As a lifelong Detroiter, it pains me to say that Boko Haram is ahead of the Big 3 when it comes to AI adoption. I didn't think I'd ever utter that sentence. I don't know if you have a sociological take on how in the world that's happening, but it's a real puzzle from my perspe...”

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The AI Daily Brief

6 Questions Every Enterprise Has to Answer About AI

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    “without that training, organizations are almost doomed to face this sort of issue in increasing fashion”

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Eye on AI

Real AI Transformation Costs HALF of Everyone's Salary for 2 Years | Chris Blackburn, Liatrio

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    “You speak to a lot of CEOs or C-suites of And I know you've been critical of, you know, there's a lot of talk about AI transformation, but as you said, a lot of it's on the margins. When you go into an organization, what's your process and what are the things that you see over...”

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    “I see very few organizations, if any, that are truly transformed.”

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    “modern AI-first, small organization, small team, you know, quick iteration, fast feedback style way of acting and operating”

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

Ep. 227: How Good Karma Brands Got Serious About AI and Made It Stick

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    “people who are AI hungry and curious and generalists are actually able to pick up our workflows easier”

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    “We're going to be an AI-forward, you know, frontier company.”

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    “That's fantastic. So that kind of covers This initial spark and the initial rollout, maybe from there, could you walk us through the journey to where things stand today? How has AI usage evolved across Good Karma since you initially rolled out the tools, answered the initial q...”

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AI Inside

AI Is Eating Its Own Tail

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    “There'll be no broadcast TV because their presumption is everyone will have broadband AI by then, and we can cut off this huge expense and we can use that spectrum for other things. So at that point, it's saying everyone has a right to broadband internet access. Will we get to...”

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    “it allows me to do so much of my business that it would have taken me a very long time to learn if I didn't have access to these tools”

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    “not to get, uh, utopian about this and say, oh, people can make their own companies and that's just fine.”

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Signals to keep watching

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

Safety & governance

Changed direction

Safety & governance rebounded

Its share rose from 3.8% last week to 16.5% this week, reversing the previous week's drop.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks6.9%This week16.5%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Adoption Use Cases

Changed direction

Adoption Use Cases reversed course

Its share fell from 34.3% last week to 29.1% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks31.9%This week29.1%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Economics

Changed direction

Economics reversed course

Its share fell from 9.5% last week to 5% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks7.1%This week5.0%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments4 cited moments

Open Models

Changed direction

Open Models reversed course

Its share fell from 9.5% last week to 6.7% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks5.3%This week6.7%

Came up more often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Jobs

Changed direction

Jobs reversed course

Its share fell from 4.3% last week to 2.3% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks3.8%This week2.3%

Came up less often than in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

Agents

Holding steady

Agents held its ground

Its share has stayed near 15.2% of the conversation for three weeks.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks15.6%This week15.2%

Came up about as often as in recent weeks.

Podcast moments5 cited moments

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