The Best AI Podcasts to Follow in 2027
24 AI podcasts grouped by who they suit, with hosts, episode length and latest episode date, checked on 30 October 2026. Quiet shows are listed separately.
Every podcast in the four main groups below published a new episode in October 2026. We checked each show's public feed on its Apple Podcasts listing on 30 October 2026. Shows that had been quiet for more than two months, or had announced a pause, moved to a separate table at the end. The groups below are by listener: people starting out, business leaders, engineers and researchers, and people who want a news roundup.
How we checked
- Latest episode: the newest episode in the show's Apple Podcasts feed on 30 October 2026.
- Length and pace: the shortest and longest of the last eight episodes in that Apple Podcasts feed, and how far apart those eight episodes came out.
- Hosts and topics: taken from the show's own listing description or its recent episode notes.
We did not use download numbers or chart positions, and the order inside each group is not a ranking.
Best AI podcasts for beginners and curious listeners
These shows are for listeners without a technical background. How I AI and The Every Podcast focus on how people use AI tools in their own work.
| Podcast | Hosts | What it covers | Length and pace | Latest episode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Beginner's Guide to AI[1] | Dietmar Fischer | Interviews with people who work with AI, plus explainer episodes on one concept each | 9 to 56 min; every two to four days | 29 Oct 2026 |
| How I AI[2] | Claire Vo | Each guest shows one practical way they use AI at work or in life, often with live screen sharing | 16 to 46 min, usually about 30; twice a week | 28 Oct 2026 |
| The Neuron: AI Explained[3] | Grant Harvey and Corey Noles | Plain explanations of new AI developments, from the team behind The Neuron newsletter | 46 to 125 min; about twice a week | 28 Oct 2026 |
| The Every Podcast (formerly AI & I)[4] | Dan Shipper and Natalia Quintero | Founders, researchers, writers and operators on how they use AI in their own work | 33 to 82 min; about weekly | 28 Oct 2026 |
| Google DeepMind: The Podcast[5] | Hannah Fry | Behind the scenes at Google DeepMind, and how AI is changing science | 38 to 53 min; released in runs, with gaps of several months | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Your Undivided Attention[6] | Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin | How new technologies shape the way people live, work and think | 20 to 60 min; every one to two weeks | 29 Oct 2026 |
Hannah Fry is also on our list of women in technology to follow.
AI podcasts for business leaders
These shows talk to founders, investors and executives about where AI creates value in companies and markets.
| Podcast | Hosts | What it covers | Length and pace | Latest episode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No Priors[7] | Sarah Guo and Elad Gil | Interviews with AI engineers, researchers and founders on AGI timelines, markets at risk of disruption and the state of research | 35 to 69 min, mostly about 40; weekly or more | 29 Oct 2026 |
| Me, Myself, and AI[8] | Sam Ransbotham (MIT Sloan Management Review) | Leaders from companies such as YouTube, Cisco and Hugging Face on turning AI into measurable business value | 21 to 40 min; every two weeks, with a summer break | 27 Oct 2026 |
| The Artificial Intelligence Show[9] | Paul Roetzer and Mike Kaput (SmarterX and Marketing AI Institute) | The week's AI news and what it means for a company and a career | A weekly news episode of 91 to 106 min, plus shorter episodes of about 45 min | 27 Oct 2026 |
| Big Technology Podcast[10] | Alex Kantrowitz | Interviews with tech industry insiders and critics | 27 to 66 min; about twice a week | 28 Oct 2026 |
| Training Data[11] | Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and other Sequoia Capital partners | Conversations with AI builders and researchers about the technology and what it means for business | 44 to 68 min; about weekly | 28 Oct 2026 |
Sarah Guo and Elad Gil are also on our list of AI in business influencers.
AI podcasts for engineers and researchers
Latent Space and Practical AI focus on building and running AI systems, while Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) and Interconnects spend more time on research.
| Podcast | Hosts | What it covers | Length and pace | Latest episode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast[12] | swyx (Shawn Wang), with founding co-host Alessio Fanelli and rotating co-hosts[13] | AI engineering, forward-deployed engineering and AI for science | 16 to 109 min; several a week | 27 Oct 2026 |
| Practical AI[14] | Daniel Whitenack and Chris Benson | Applied AI, machine learning and LLMs, with a focus on real-world implementations | 43 to 56 min; weekly | 29 Oct 2026 |
| The TWIML AI Podcast[15] | Sam Charrington | Interviews with leading people in ML and AI, for researchers, data scientists, engineers and business leaders | 51 to 90 min; about weekly | 28 Oct 2026 |
| Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST)[16] | Tim Scarfe, with Keith Duggar | AI research, cognitive science, neuroscience and philosophy of mind | 25 to 134 min; several a month | 26 Oct 2026 |
| Interconnects[17] | Nathan Lambert | Audio essays on new AI developments, and interviews with scientists | Essays of 9 to 17 min, interviews of 46 to 65 min; several a month | 28 Oct 2026 |
| The Cognitive Revolution[18] | Nathan Labenz and Erik Torenberg | Long interviews with AI builders about the changes AI will bring in the coming years | 65 to 139 min; two or three a week | 28 Oct 2026 |
| Eye on A.I.[19] | Craig S. Smith, a former New York Times correspondent | Interviews with people working in AI, with the wider implications of each advance | 19 to 65 min; one or two a week | 23 Oct 2026 |
| Dwarkesh Podcast[20] | Dwarkesh Patel | Deeply researched interviews | 24 to 140 min; two to four a month | 29 Oct 2026 |
| Lex Fridman Podcast[21] | Lex Fridman | Long conversations on AI, science, history and technology | 3 to 5.5 hours; once or twice a month | 26 Oct 2026 |
The Cognitive Revolution's listing still calls it biweekly, but the feed carried eight episodes between 7 and 28 October 2026.[18] swyx, Nathan Lambert, Dwarkesh Patel and Lex Fridman are all on our AI influencers list.
AI news podcasts for weekly and daily roundups
These four shows summarise and discuss AI news. The AI Daily Brief is the only daily show on this list.
| Podcast | Hosts | What it covers | Length and pace | Latest episode |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The AI Daily Brief[22] | Nathaniel Whittemore | News analysis on models, tools, work and the wider questions around advanced AI | 27 to 32 min; daily | 29 Oct 2026 |
| Hard Fork[23] | Kevin Roose and Casey Newton (The New York Times) | The week's tech news, and which parts are real and which are hype | About 60 to 70 min; every Friday | 23 Oct 2026 |
| Mixture of Experts[24] | Tim Hwang or David Zax, with a rotating panel | IBM's weekly discussion of AI news and its effect on business | 31 to 39 min; weekly | 23 Oct 2026 |
| Last Week in AI[25] | Andrey Kurenkov and Jeremie Harris | A summary and discussion of the previous week's AI news | 74 to 118 min; billed as weekly, with recent gaps of one to three weeks | 19 Oct 2026 |
AI podcasts that paused or stopped
These shows still appear in podcast apps. Everyday AI announced a pause on 27 October 2026, and each of the other shows has had no episode of its own for more than two months.
| Podcast | Status on 30 October 2026 |
|---|---|
| Everyday AI (Jordan Wilson)[26] | Episode 890, published 27 October 2026, announces a temporary pause and a handover of the podcast to a new team. |
| NVIDIA AI Podcast[27] | The latest episode, number 302, came out on 24 June 2026. |
| AI + a16z[28] | The latest episode came out on 7 August 2026. Andreessen Horowitz's main feed, The a16z Show, published on 28 October 2026.[29] |
| Gradient Dissent (Lukas Biewald, Weights & Biases)[30] | The latest episode came out on 18 August 2026. |
| This Day in AI (Michael and Chris Sharkey)[31] | The latest episode came out on 7 May 2026. |
| The Gradient (Daniel Bashir)[32] | The latest episode came out on 22 January 2026, and the previous episode in November 2025. |
| How AI Is Built (Nicolay Gerold)[33] | The latest episode came out on 11 September 2025. |
| The TED AI Show (Bilawal Sidhu)[34] | The last episode made for the show came out on 21 January 2025. Later episodes in its feed come from other shows, most recently TED Tech in July 2026. |
| In Machines We Trust (MIT Technology Review)[35] | The final episode, "That's a wrap!", came out on 14 August 2023. The same feed now carries MIT Technology Review Narrated. |
For reading rather than listening, our practical guide to LLM agents covers how agent systems are built, and the LLMOps guide covers how teams run them in production.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best AI podcasts for beginners?
A Beginner's Guide to AI, hosted by Dietmar Fischer, mixes interviews with short explainer episodes on one concept at a time. How I AI, hosted by Claire Vo, shows one practical way a guest uses AI, often with screen sharing, in episodes of about 30 minutes. Both published new episodes in the last week of October 2026.
What is the best daily AI news podcast?
The AI Daily Brief, hosted by Nathaniel Whittemore, publishes a news analysis episode of about 30 minutes every day. Its latest episode came out on 29 October 2026. For one longer show a week, Hard Fork from The New York Times covers the week's tech news every Friday.
Which AI podcasts are best for engineers?
Latent Space covers AI engineering, Practical AI covers applied AI and real-world implementations, and The TWIML AI Podcast brings ML and AI research to researchers, data scientists and engineers. For research depth, Machine Learning Street Talk and Nathan Lambert's Interconnects go further into how models work. All five published episodes in October 2026.
Which AI podcasts have stopped publishing?
As of 30 October 2026, In Machines We Trust ended in August 2023, How AI Is Built has had no episode since September 2025, and The Gradient's last episode came out in January 2026. The NVIDIA AI Podcast has had no episode since 24 June 2026, and Everyday AI announced a temporary pause on 27 October 2026.
What happened to the AI & I podcast?
AI & I was renamed The Every Podcast. Dan Shipper now co-hosts it with Natalia Quintero, and it still publishes about once a week, with the latest episode on 28 October 2026.
Sources
- A Beginner's Guide to AI — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- How I AI — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The Neuron: AI Explained — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The Every Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Google DeepMind: The Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Your Undivided Attention — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- No Priors — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Me, Myself, and AI — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The Artificial Intelligence Show — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Big Technology Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Training Data — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Latent Space: The AI Engineer Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- About Latent Space — Latent Space, 2026
- Practical AI — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The TWIML AI Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST) — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Interconnects — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The Cognitive Revolution — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Eye on A.I. — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Dwarkesh Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Lex Fridman Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The AI Daily Brief — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Hard Fork — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Mixture of Experts — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Last Week in AI — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Everyday AI Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- NVIDIA AI Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- AI + a16z — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The a16z Show — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- Gradient Dissent — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- This Day in AI Podcast — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The Gradient: Perspectives on AI — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- How AI Is Built — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- The TED AI Show — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026
- MIT Technology Review Narrated (formerly In Machines We Trust) — Apple Podcasts, checked 30 Oct 2026