What’s trending in AI — Sep 27, 2026

On Sep 27, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 96 topics across 34 sources. 7 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 12 cooling and 77 quiet.

In hype now

1. Jev — 🔥 Hot · hype score 72.1 · −27.9 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 12
2. Meta Muse — 🔥 Hot · hype score 57.9 · +15 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 8
3. AI agents — 🔥 Hot · hype score 47.1 · +18.1 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 8
4. Jensen Huang — 🔥 Hot · hype score 35.8 · −6.6 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 20
5. MiMo — 🔥 Hot · hype score 30.8 · +28.2 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 27
6. Cursor — 🔥 Hot · hype score 29.3 · −9.3 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 20
7. AGI - superintelligence — 🔥 Hot · hype score 26.6 · +9.3 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 21

Cooling

1. Dario Amodei — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 35.3 · +12.5 in 7 days
2. Agent security incidents — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 28.2 · −1.2 in 7 days
3. Decision models — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 26 · −19.4 in 7 days
4. Siri AI — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 25.9 · −11.2 in 7 days
5. Anthropic — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 23 · +21.2 in 7 days
6. MiMo-V2.6 — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.6 · +8.2 in 7 days
7. Sam Altman — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.1 · +3.1 in 7 days
8. Instinct — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.3 · −8.8 in 7 days
9. OpenAI — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.1 · +5.7 in 7 days
10. LMArena — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 14.8 · +1.6 in 7 days

Biggest moves this week

1. GPT-6 Astra — −60.2 in 7 days, now 0.9 (💤 Quiet)
2. AI slowdown — −43.7 in 7 days, now 0 (💤 Quiet)
3. TypeSafe AI — −41.9 in 7 days, now 2.8 (💤 Quiet)
4. AI in math — −29.1 in 7 days, now 0 (💤 Quiet)
5. MiMo — +28.2 in 7 days, now 30.8 (🔥 Hot)

Themes today

Stories kept by the radar on Sep 27, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

• Protocols & infra — 611 stories (36% of the day) · 5,836 in 7 days · steady week over week
• Agents — 598 stories (35% of the day) · 5,517 in 7 days · rising week over week
• Models — 573 stories (34% of the day) · 6,757 in 7 days · rising week over week
• Usage & adoption — 416 stories (24% of the day) · 3,441 in 7 days · steady week over week
• Business & policy — 329 stories (19% of the day) · 4,854 in 7 days · steady week over week
• SF scene — 4 stories (0.2% of the day) · 80 in 7 days · fading week over week

Explore

• Every topic: its stage, hype score and 7-day change
• The theme tree: what the conversation is about
• About and methodology: how the score and the stages work
• llms.txt: this site for language models
• Atom feed: one entry per daily brief