The best tech podcasts in 2026, ranked.
Tech podcasts on software, chips, AI labs, and the people running them. Each one is ranked by how often its episodes fed our newsletters over the last 12 weeks.
Best Tech Podcasts, 2026
- 1
No Priors
Hosted by Sarah Guo and Elad Gil
10 of 10 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 5.0 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Hyperscaler ASICs like Google TPU, Meta MTIA, Microsoft Maia, and OpenAI Jalapeno rarely offer differentiated computational performance over Nvidia or AMD. Read the write-up
- 2
Dwarkesh Podcast
Hosted by Dwarkesh Patel
6 of 6 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.5 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Small Spanish forces collapsed massive Aztec and Inca empires within a few years by capturing their supreme leaders, instantly paralyzing their central command chains. Read the write-up
- 3
Lex Fridman Podcast
Hosted by Lex Fridman
3 of 3 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 5.0 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: David Heinemeier Hansson benchmarked frontier models on rewriting a Python animation library into Rust; the autonomous run took under 45 minutes, cut startup time from 86 milliseconds to 2 milliseconds, and sped up execution by 9.6 times. Read the write-up
- 4
Latent Space
Hosted by swyx and Alessio Fanelli
14 of 22 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.6 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Google possesses massive TPU capacity, yet internal teams like DeepMind have less dedicated R&D compute than OpenAI and Anthropic. Read the write-up
- 5
Cheeky Pint
Hosted by John Collison
2 of 2 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 5.5 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Shopee resolves over 80% of customer support inquiries entirely through automated AI chat systems, hitting customer satisfaction scores higher than human agents. Read the write-up
- 6
Complex Systems
Hosted by Patrick McKenzie
2 of 2 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 5.5 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: In January 2026, political proposals surfaced in the United States targeting a temporary one-year cap on consumer credit card APRs at 10%. Read the write-up
- 7
TBPN
Hosted by John Coogan and Jordi Hays
20 of 42 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.6 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: MongoDB expanded its growth trajectory by shifting to Atlas, its managed cloud service that bills customers directly for consumption rather than selling static licenses. Read the write-up
- 8
All-In Podcast
Hosted by Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks and David Friedberg
12 of 23 episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4 · 4.5 write-ups per episode
Recent takeaway: Institutional LPs reject celebrity-led funds because backing famous talent creates direct career risk for the investment officer if the fund fails. Read the write-up
How we rank
We write up every episode of the shows we cover. Over the 12 weeks to Oct 4, that came to 298 episodes from 30 shows, and we published 24 newsletters (The Throughline and The Carry). A show ranks higher when more of its episodes had ideas that made one of those newsletters.
The score is the share of a show's episodes that made a newsletter, adjusted so a show with only a few episodes needs a higher share to rank high (3 of 3 counts for less than 10 of 10). A show needs at least two episodes in the window to be ranked. The order updates every time the site rebuilds, and the window moves forward each Sunday. Nobody pays to be on this list, and it only includes shows we cover.
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What are the best tech podcasts in 2026?
By our data, the top of the list is No Priors, Dwarkesh Podcast and Lex Fridman Podcast. The ranking counts how often each show's episodes made our newsletters in the 12 weeks to Oct 4.
How is this list ranked?
By the share of each show's episodes whose ideas made The Throughline or The Carry, adjusted so a show with only a few episodes needs a higher share to rank high.