Guide
The Best AI Podcasts and Channels
AI news for your ears and eyes: the podcasts and video channels worth a subscription, matched to how much time you actually have. Ours is in the list; the comparison is honest anyway.
By the AI2Day Newsdesk · Updated 24 July 2026 · Revised as shows come and go
In short
- For daily audio news, a short daily briefing show fits the commute; for depth, one weekly conversation show is plenty, and AI2Day Weekly wraps the week in a single episode.
- Video channels shine at explanation rather than news: research explainers and tool walkthroughs work far better with visuals.
- The sustainable diet is one daily audio habit, one weekly show, and ruthless unsubscribing from everything else.
Which are the best AI podcasts?
Match the show to the minutes you have. Short daily briefings cover the news in under twenty minutes; weekly conversation shows go deep on fewer stories; developer shows assume you build things. The table is the shortlist we would give a friend, ours included and labelled.
| Show | Cadence | Style | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| The AI Daily Brief | Daily | Short news briefing | Commute-length daily updates |
| Hard Fork | Weekly | News conversation | Big stories with mainstream context |
| Practical AI | Weekly | Applied interviews | How teams actually use AI |
| Latent Space | Weekly | Technical interviews | Engineers building with AI |
| No Priors | Weekly | Founder and investor interviews | The business and funding side |
| AI2Day Weekly | Weekly | News recap | The week's AI news in one episode |
Every show above is free, and all of them live in whichever podcast app you already use. Names change and shows pause, so treat the list as a starting grid rather than gospel; the constant is the format logic. Pair any daily show with one weekly, and skip the rest without guilt. The same pairing logic across every format (sites, email, audio) is laid out in our guide to following AI news.
What about AI video channels?
Video earns its place for explanation, not headlines. Research explainers, tool walkthroughs and demo breakdowns genuinely benefit from visuals; daily news read to camera is usually a podcast with a lightbulb. Subscribe to explainers on video and keep news in audio or text.
The YouTube ecosystem splits into three useful genres: research explainers that turn dense papers into visual intuition, tool coverage that shows new products actually running, and long-form interviews with the people building the field. A channel in each genre covers the medium. The trap is volume: AI YouTube publishes far faster than anyone can watch, and autoplay happily replaces your judgement with its own. Decide what you want explained, subscribe narrowly, and let our written explainers handle the concepts that do not need twenty minutes of video.
What is the AI2Day Weekly podcast?
Our weekly audio recap: the seven days of AI news that mattered, condensed into one conversation between two hosts, published every Monday morning Brisbane time. It is built from the same reporting as the site, so every story mentioned has a full written version behind it.
It exists for the reader who wants the week handled in one sitting rather than a daily drip. The natural pairings: skim the AI news this week page when you want the rundown in text, or let the episode carry your Monday commute and dip into the site when something grabs you. Episodes and the player live on the podcast page, with an RSS feed for any app.
How do you listen or subscribe?
Search the show name in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Pocket Casts or any app, or subscribe directly by RSS. For AI2Day Weekly, the podcast page streams every episode in the browser and the podcast feed plugs straight into any player.
Two listening habits worth stealing: queue the weekly shows for a set slot (the commute, the gym, the school run) so they get finished rather than stockpiled, and when an episode covers something you need in text, the show notes nearly always link the source. If your backlog passes three unplayed episodes of anything, unsubscribe; the news will still find you, and the email briefing catches anything the ears missed.
Frequently asked questions
Is there a daily AI news podcast?
Yes, several: short daily briefing shows summarise AI news in ten to twenty minutes, with The AI Daily Brief the best-known example. Daily audio suits commutes well; just pair it with one weekly show for depth rather than adding more dailies.
What is the best AI podcast for beginners?
Start with a mainstream weekly conversation show such as Hard Fork, which explains the news without assuming a technical background, and add our written explainers when a concept needs unpacking. Technical shows can wait until the vocabulary settles.
What is the best AI podcast for developers?
Latent Space is the strongest developer-first show, with Practical AI close behind for applied engineering interviews. Both assume you build software; both reward pairing with the papers and release notes they discuss.
Are AI podcasts free?
Essentially all of them, funded by sponsors like the newsletters. Paid feeds exist mostly as ad-free versions or bonus archives; nothing worth hearing about AI news sits behind a required paywall.
Is there an AI news channel on TV or YouTube?
There is no serious dedicated AI news TV channel; the demand is served by YouTube explainer channels, podcast video feeds and news sites. If you want a channel-like habit, a YouTube subscription to one explainer plus one interview show does the job.
Hear the week
AI2Day Weekly wraps the week's AI news into one Monday episode, built on the same reporting as everything on this site.