Best podcasts · Updated Oct 23, 2026

The best tech podcasts in 2026, ranked.

We follow 59 long-form podcasts and cut the minutes worth watching from their episodes. These are the shows we follow that cover technology and the tech industry beyond AI alone: the news, how software gets built, and how tech companies are run. This list ranks the 18 we’ve cut from, 174 moments in all, and changes as we cut more.

How we rank: Each moment we’ve cut from a show earns a point, plus one when an AI builder is the one talking and one when its episode cleared our views bar, and a moment’s points halve every 90 days after its episode came out.

No. 1. Lab and founder interviews · Daily
Latent Space
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Shawn Wang (swyx) and Alessio Fanelli, with a new episode every day.
22 moments cut from 8 episodes, 13 with an AI builder talking, mostly on enterprise AI and robotics.
Top guests Erik Bernhardsson, Ian Quigley, Jason Ma, Liam Fedus
Start with Agents hacked their scorer and chained exploits to communicate
No. 2. Investing and business · Daily
a16z Podcast
An investing and business show, hosted by Erik Torenberg, with a new episode every day.
22 moments cut from 9 episodes, 11 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and chips & GPUs.
Top guests Alex Karp, Jad Naous, Nathan Lambert, Matt Garman
Start with Military technology helps deter attacks and bring warfighters home
No. 3. News shows · A few times a week
All-In
A tech news show, hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg, with a new episode a few times a week.
17 moments cut from 6 episodes, 2 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI business models and investing in AI.
Top guests Arvind Krishna, Ben Horowitz, Billy Evans, Nikesh Arora
Start with CoreWeave’s main risk is refinancing its fixed-price contracts
No. 4. Research and big ideas · Every two weeks
Lex Fridman Podcast
A long-form conversation show on research and big ideas, hosted by Lex Fridman, with a new episode every two weeks.
29 moments cut from 12 episodes, 5 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and coding agents.
Top guests Jensen Huang, Peter Steinberger, Gary W. Gallagher, Don Lincoln
Start with Why big companies don't ship faster with AI agents
No. 5. News shows · Twice a week
Sources
A tech news show, hosted by Alex Heath, with a new episode about twice a week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 9 with an AI builder talking, mostly on open-weight models and inference & cost.
Top guests Sundar Pichai, Misha Laskin, Cristiano Amon, Ioannis Antonoglou
Start with Beam targets strong reasoning with fewer tokens
No. 6. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Lenny's Podcast
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Lenny Rachitsky, with a new episode every week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 9 with an AI builder talking, mostly on building AI products and AI startups.
Top guests Emmanuel Ameisen, Josh Woodward, Tibo Sottiaux
Start with Most internet actions will soon be taken by agents
No. 7. News shows · A few times a week
Moonshots
A tech news show, hosted by Peter Diamandis, Salim Ismail, Dave Blundin and Alexander Wissner-Gross, with a new episode a few times a week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data centers & energy and chips & GPUs.
Top guests Emad Mostaque, Anousheh Ansari, Chamath Palihapitiya
Start with Robot task costs fell 84% in two months
No. 8. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Cheeky Pint
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by John Collison, with a new episode every week.
8 moments cut from 3 episodes, 2 with an AI builder talking, mostly on data centers & energy and robotics.
Top guests Alexandr Wang, Mark Zuckerberg, Toto Wolff, Will O’Brien
Start with Training a frontier model means committing $100B before you know it works
No. 9. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Behind the Craft
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Peter Yang, with a new episode every week.
9 moments cut from 3 episodes, 3 with an AI builder talking, mostly on AI agents and coding agents.
Top guests Sam Stephenson, Ras Mic, Lauren Tan, Peng Zheng
Start with Build trust in a bot by turning observed runs into skills
No. 10. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
The Pragmatic Engineer
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Gergely Orosz, with a new episode every week.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, mostly on coding agents and AI agents.
Top guests Uday Kiran Medisetty, Sam Newman
Start with Fail open or fail closed depends on the business context
No. 11. News shows · A few times a week
Decoder
A tech news show, hosted by Nilay Patel, with a new episode a few times a week.
7 moments cut from 4 episodes, mostly on consumer AI and cybersecurity.
Top guests Walter Piecyk, Benn Jordan, Hayden Field, Peter Kafka
Start with Flock's network is only as secure as its weakest user
No. 12. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
Lightcone
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Garry Tan, Harj Taggar, Diana Hu and Jared Friedman, with a new episode every week.
5 moments cut from 2 episodes, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on building AI products and AI startups.
Top guests Alex Danilowicz, Aaron Epstein
Start with Solo founders hit 19% of YC as knowing what to build matters most
No. 13. News shows · Daily
TBPN
A tech news show, hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays, with a new episode every day.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on cybersecurity and frontier models.
Top guests Oege de Moor, Anjney Midha, Jeff Holden
Start with One researcher plus AI agents found a Chrome full-chain exploit in 6 days
No. 14. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
AI & I
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Dan Shipper, with a new episode every week.
6 moments cut from 2 episodes, mostly on enterprise AI and AI startups.
Top guests Matt Hartman, Willie Williams
Start with Why every personal agent at Every died and one company agent won
No. 15. News shows · Weekly
Core Memory
A tech news show, hosted by Ashlee Vance, with a new episode every week.
2 moments cut from one episode, 1 with an AI builder talking, mostly on robotics and consumer AI.
Top guests Andrew Kiguel, Matt McMullen
Start with Realbotix prioritizes autonomy and useful tasks over walking
No. 16. Lab and founder interviews · Weekly
The Peterman Pod
An interview show with the people building AI, hosted by Ryan Peterman, with a new episode every week.
3 moments cut from one episode, mostly on science & math and evals & benchmarks.
Top guests Scott Aaronson
Start with Why AI is best at finding counterexamples to conjectures
HFNo. 17. News shows · Weekly
Hard Fork
A tech news show, with a new episode every week.
2 moments cut from one episode, mostly on safety & alignment and frontier models.
Top guests Elizabeth Dias
Start with Anthropic's consciousness view collided with the Vatican's
No. 18. Investing and business · Monthly
Acquired
An investing and business show, hosted by Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal, with a new episode about once a month.
3 moments cut from one episode.
Start with Bogle's firing and the legal loophole that created Vanguard