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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 reversed last week's rise

Across 25 episodes from 14 contributing podcasts, adoption use cases fell 6.6 points to 34.7%, reversing the previous week's rise.

The TL;DR

What changed
Adoption Use Cases fell 6.6 points and Research fell 0.7 points.
Where it showed up
Adoption Use Cases, Research, and Safety & governance accounted for 65% of the relevant conversation across 25 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 35% of the conversation across 14 podcasts this week.About the same35% of this week · 14 podcasts
  2. ResearchNew models, training methods, benchmarks, and discoveries from AI labs.Discussion of research eased compared with recent weeks. It made up 17% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.Losing attention17% of this week · 11 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 14% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.Gaining attention14% of this week · 11 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 13% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.About the same13% of this week · 11 podcasts
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  1. HardwareThe chips, data centers, energy, and devices that AI depends on.Discussion of hardware stayed near its recent level. It made up 5% of the conversation across 8 podcasts this week.About the same5% of this week · 8 podcasts
  2. EconomicsThe cost of building and running AI, and how money moves through the market.Discussion of economics stayed near its recent level. It made up 5% of the conversation across 7 podcasts this week.About the same5% of this week · 7 podcasts
  3. InfrastructureThe software and systems needed to build, deploy, and monitor AI.Discussion of infrastructure stayed near its recent level. It made up 4% of the conversation across 11 podcasts this week.About the same4% of this week · 11 podcasts
  4. 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 8 podcasts this week.About the same3% of this week · 8 podcasts
  5. 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 4 podcasts this week.About the same2% of this week · 4 podcasts
  6. 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 1% of the conversation across 6 podcasts this week.About the same1% of this week · 6 podcasts
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From Aug 31–Sep 6, 2026

About this Concept

Agents

AI systems that can plan, use tools, and carry out multi-step tasks.

Trend this week

11 of 11 weeks tracked had mentions across multiple podcasts.

A closer read

What changed
Its share rose from 12.4% to 13%, with evidence across 11 podcasts.
Where it showed up
It appeared in episodes including “How to Build an AI-Native Company Today” and “AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era”.
How to read it
6 cited episodes from 5 podcasts are shown below. The topic appeared across 11 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 · 5 podcasts

The AI Daily Brief

How to Build an AI-Native Company Today

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  1. A
    “artificially constraining agents to do things along the pattern of an old workflow is in many cases the wrong approach”

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The Cognitive Revolution

AI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era

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    “I would suspect that it's going to be like agent-to-agent communication, you know, in the future.”

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  2. B
    “My agent calls, you know, the landscaper's agent and then they have a conversation and They execute in legalese that we can't read and then uh eventually make a deal and the rest of us just have to live with it.”

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The AI Daily Brief

Agentic Loops for Knowledge Workers

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    “even though these tools are amazing and we are able to get very good results out of them”

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    “the quality of the results and the scale will only be unlocked if you go all the way to building entire teams of agents and orchestrating them”

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    “these tools are much less prone to get confused or get tired than humans are”

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The Artificial Intelligence Show

#236: AI Answers - No Time for AI, AI Budgets, Vendor Terms & Data Risk, AI Disclosure & Vanishing Entry Level Roles

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  1. A
    “you should know when an agent would be taking an action, and you should be the one giving it permission to do that.”

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AI Inside

What Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face

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  1. C
    “Thus it then tried this or tried that, and it succeeded or it failed. And, and, and I think especially get to this idea that, oh my God, it hacked something. No, No, it was told to do a task, and given the tools that it had, it used them in some sequence of, of trial and error...”

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The AI Native Dev

850 PRs a Week: How Tessl Runs a Software Factory

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  1. A
    “It's just that skills is the most popular term. It's what everybody thinks of as the unit for agents. So we sort of use that uh interchangeably.”

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  2. A
    “Eastern European spirit. It will clean your house at night. I'm quoting Maria, so thank you, Maria, for, for letting me know this. Uh, it cleans your house at night, But only if you're good. If you are making a mess, if you are being disrespectful, it makes things worse, which...”

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  3. A
    “you've now got agents reviewing your PRs, you're finding bugs, you're maybe merging faster, or you're at least catching more issues. Uh, uh and it feels great.”

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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 reversed course

Its share fell from 41.3% last week to 34.7% this week, reversing the previous week's rise.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks33.5%This week34.7%

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 Build an AI-Native Company Today
  2. The AI Daily BriefHow to Build an AI-Native Company Today
  3. The Cognitive RevolutionAI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
  4. The Cognitive RevolutionAI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
  5. The AI Daily BriefHow AI Changed This Summer

Hardware

Changed direction

Hardware rebounded

Its share rose from 2.7% last week to 5.3% this week, reversing the previous week's drop.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks3.5%This week5.3%

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. Eye on AIFrom 10 Drones a Month to Nearly 100,000 — Inside Ukraine's Largest Drone Manufacturer | Marko Kushnir, General Cherry
  2. No PriorsRedefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene Haas
  3. No PriorsRedefining Chip Architecture with Arm CEO Rene Haas
  4. AI For HumansWe Tested Infinite AI Video... And We're Zombies Now
  5. The Artificial Intelligence Show#235: OpenAI-Hugging Face Hack Involved 100s of Agents, Bill Gates Now Pessimistic on Jobs, Nvidia Doubles Revenue & Anthropic Targets “$30 Trillion” TAM

Safety & governance

Gaining attention

Safety & governance gained ground

Its share grew from 10.7% last week to 13.7% this week.

Share of this week’s podcast conversation

Recent weeks10.8%This week13.7%

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 Cognitive RevolutionAI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
  2. The Cognitive RevolutionAI:AM Highlights: Welcome to the AGI Era
  3. Practical AILess about Models; More about Architecture
  4. The Artificial Intelligence Show#236: AI Answers - No Time for AI, AI Budgets, Vendor Terms & Data Risk, AI Disclosure & Vanishing Entry Level Roles
  5. AI InsideWhat Happens When Nvidia Owns Hugging Face

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