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title: "What’s trending in AI — Sep 27, 2026 · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/briefs/2026-09-27
as_of: 2026-09-27
updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z
---

# What’s trending in AI — Sep 27, 2026

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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](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 72.1 · −27.9 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 12
2. [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 57.9 · +15 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 8
3. [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 47.1 · +18.1 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 8
4. [Jensen Huang](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jensen_huang.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 35.8 · −6.6 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 20
5. [MiMo](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 30.8 · +28.2 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 27
6. [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 29.3 · −9.3 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 20
7. [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 26.6 · +9.3 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 21

## Cooling

1. [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 35.3 · +12.5 in 7 days
2. [Agent security incidents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_security.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 28.2 · −1.2 in 7 days
3. [Decision models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/decision_models.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 26 · −19.4 in 7 days
4. [Siri AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/siri_ai.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 25.9 · −11.2 in 7 days
5. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 23 · +21.2 in 7 days
6. [MiMo-V2.6](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo_v2_6.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.6 · +8.2 in 7 days
7. [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.1 · +3.1 in 7 days
8. [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.3 · −8.8 in 7 days
9. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.1 · +5.7 in 7 days
10. [LMArena](https://abovethefog.app/topics/lmarena.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 14.8 · +1.6 in 7 days

## Biggest moves this week

1. [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) — −60.2 in 7 days, now 0.9 (💤 Quiet)
2. [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md) — −43.7 in 7 days, now 0 (💤 Quiet)
3. [TypeSafe AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/typesafe_ai.md) — −41.9 in 7 days, now 2.8 (💤 Quiet)
4. [AI in math](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_math.md) — −29.1 in 7 days, now 0 (💤 Quiet)
5. [MiMo](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mimo.md) — +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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 611 stories (36% of the day) · 5,836 in 7 days · steady week over week
- [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 598 stories (35% of the day) · 5,517 in 7 days · rising week over week
- [Models](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 573 stories (34% of the day) · 6,757 in 7 days · rising week over week
- [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 416 stories (24% of the day) · 3,441 in 7 days · steady week over week
- [Business & policy](https://abovethefog.app/themes/business_policy.md) — 329 stories (19% of the day) · 4,854 in 7 days · steady week over week
- [SF scene](https://abovethefog.app/themes/sf_scene.md) — 4 stories (0.2% of the day) · 80 in 7 days · fading week over week

## Explore

- [Every topic](https://abovethefog.app/topics.md): its stage, hype score and 7-day change
- [The theme tree](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md): what the conversation is about
- [About and methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md): how the score and the stages work
- [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt): this site for language models
- [Atom feed](https://abovethefog.app/feed.xml): one entry per daily brief

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Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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