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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

Open Models

AI models whose weights or code are available for others to use and adapt.

Trend this week

6 of 6 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share fell from 9.5% to 6.7%, with evidence across 7 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “Is Offense or Defense Dominant? FAR.AI's Adam Gleave on the AI Security L...” and “Reconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 6 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 7 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 · 6 podcasts

The Cognitive Revolution

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

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    “I am optimistic that we can certainly get a lot better than we are now with open weight without major changes to the pipeline”

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Practical AI

Reconstructing how OpenAI agents attacked Hugging Face

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    “I did not get that in the initial. So I don't think that was really known at that point. Which is really ironic when you consider the fact that Hugging Face was initially trying to use an OpenAI model to discern what happened with, unbeknownst to them, was an OpenAI model atta...”

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AI Inside

AI Is Eating Its Own Tail

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    “that's where the power of having so many open-weight models out there and the choice among models Yeah. It's so important because if you just have the nucleus of your stuff and these models can call upon it, it leaves you so much more in charge.”

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    “Well, yeah, I mean, NVIDIA basically leading off with this Open Secure AI Alliance, right? kind of collecting 50 companies, more than 50 actually. But, you know, you mentioned Palantir, Microsoft, Hugging Face, of course Salesforce, Cisco, Dell. There's a number of GitHub, SAP...”

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    “Well, you got, you got a couple different, you got like 3 different things going on here. You have the, uh, defense, the letter that was the open, the defense of Open Weight. That's 50 companies that did include Google, finally.”

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AI For Humans

The Singularity Is... Here? GPT-6, Opus 5 & AI's Scariest Week Yet

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    “this will be an open weights video model, which, if you know the way that AI video has gone, is a big deal”

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    “Before we dive into the exciting examples, because they are fun and great and scary and hilariously bad at times. When you say like, oh, it's open weights and that's going to be amazing, like distill that for someone who goes like, wait, I'm sorry, what does that mean for me a...”

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The AI Daily Brief

Big Tech Unites for Open Source AI—and Against Anthropic

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    “GLM-5.2 clearly wasn't as powerful as Mythos for anyone who actually used the model”

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    “Open weights accelerates the diffusion of AI across the economy by providing more options for specific customer requirements, can lower the cost of certain workloads”

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#226: OpenAI’s Rogue Model, Kimi K3, Open Weights Letter & Demis Hassabis Calls for AI Regulatory Body

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    “Basically, Google DeepMind's approach and Google's approach at large is they release— let's say they build a frontier model today, like their 3.5 Pro, I think is what we're going to be on. That's what they will be releasing.”

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    “They just don't take the anti-position like Anthropic does. I don't think anyone thinks those models are seriously dangerous. Now keep in mind, this is 2023 when he's saying this. They have some risks, but the benefits may outweigh the loss. And I think, to be fair, even up to...”

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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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