Imagine you wanted to find a new podcast to listen to. The most likely move in 2026 is to ask your AI assistant something like “What’s a good true crime podcast?” or “Best business podcasts for entrepreneurs?” or “Podcasts about mindfulness?” But what do these AIs recommend? Over 4 weeks, we systematically queried four major AI assistants — ChatGPT (OpenAI), Claude (Anthropic), Perplexity, and Gemini (Google) — across 849 different podcast topics to create the first comprehensive map of AI podcast discovery. ...