What’s trending in AI —
On Oct 13, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 96 topics across 34 sources. 15 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 9 cooling and 72 quiet.
In hype now
- Siri AI — 🚀 Rising · hype score 48 · +35.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Grok — 🚀 Rising · hype score 43.7 · +39.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Cursor — 🔥 Hot · hype score 43.6 · +15.2 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 20
- Anthropic — 🚀 Rising · hype score 39.5 · +22.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Data centers - compute — 🚀 Rising · hype score 36.3 · +23.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
- Vibe coding — 🚀 Rising · hype score 36 · +33 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
- Muse Spark — 🚀 Rising · hype score 33.7 · +33.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
- Gemini — 🚀 Rising · hype score 31.5 · +16.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Meta Superintelligence Labs — 🚀 Rising · hype score 29 · +27.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Google DeepMind — 🚀 Rising · hype score 28.9 · +24 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Claude Code — 🚀 Rising · hype score 28 · +20 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- ChatGPT — 🚀 Rising · hype score 27.4 · +6.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Model Context Protocol — 🚀 Rising · hype score 26.2 · +15.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Antigravity — 🚀 Rising · hype score 25.9 · +23.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Jev — 🔥 Hot · hype score 25.8 · −37.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
Cooling
- Grok Bot — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 24.1 · +16 in 7 days
- Gemma — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 20.3 · −5.6 in 7 days
- Claude — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 19.5 · +2.9 in 7 days
- Waymo - robotaxis — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 17.6 · +7.1 in 7 days
- Elon Musk — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 16.7 · +12.2 in 7 days
- DeepSeek — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 14.9 · −2.9 in 7 days
- Hermes Agent — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 13.8 · −2.8 in 7 days
- OpenRouter — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 12.1 · −5.6 in 7 days
- Sakana AI — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 11.4 · +9.8 in 7 days
Biggest moves this week
- Mistral AI — −91.7 in 7 days, now 2.7 (💤 Quiet)
- Grok — +39.4 in 7 days, now 43.7 (🚀 Rising)
- Open-weight models — −39 in 7 days, now 22.6 (💤 Quiet)
- Jev — −37.7 in 7 days, now 25.8 (🔥 Hot)
- Siri AI — +35.1 in 7 days, now 48 (🚀 Rising)
Themes today
Data note: 7 of the last 7 days are only partly classified. Share of each day's items classified: Oct 7 0% · Oct 8 0% · Oct 9 0% · Oct 10 0% · Oct 11 0% · Oct 12 0% · Oct 13 0%. Theme counts for those days are low, so the week-over-week trends lean toward “fading”.
Stories kept by the radar on Oct 13, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):
- Models — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- Agents — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- Usage & adoption — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- Protocols & infra — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- Business & policy — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- SF scene — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
Explore
- Previous daily brief: Sep 27, 2026
- Next daily brief: Oct 14, 2026
- Every topic: its stage, hype score and 7-day change
- The theme tree: what the conversation is about
- Week 42, 2026: the topics in hype that week and the stories behind them
- Every week: one page per week of daily briefs
- Head to head: competing topics side by side
- About and methodology: how the score and the stages work
- llms.txt: this site for language models
- Atom feed: one entry per daily brief