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title: "What’s trending in AI — Oct 13, 2026 · Above the Fog"
canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/briefs/2026-10-13
as_of: 2026-10-13
updated: 2026-10-14T20:21:35Z
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# What’s trending in AI — Oct 13, 2026

[Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › Daily brief, Oct 13, 2026

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

1. [Siri AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/siri_ai.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 48 · +35.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
2. [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 43.7 · +39.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
3. [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 43.6 · +15.2 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 20
4. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 39.5 · +22.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
5. [Data centers - compute](https://abovethefog.app/topics/data_centers.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 36.3 · +23.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
6. [Vibe coding](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vibe_coding.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 36 · +33 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
7. [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 33.7 · +33.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
8. [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 31.5 · +16.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
9. [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 29 · +27.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
10. [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 28.9 · +24 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
11. [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 28 · +20 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
12. [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 27.4 · +6.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
13. [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 26.2 · +15.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
14. [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md) — 🚀 Rising · hype score 25.9 · +23.2 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
15. [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) — 🔥 Hot · hype score 25.8 · −37.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13

## Cooling

1. [Grok Bot](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok_bot.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 24.1 · +16 in 7 days
2. [Gemma](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemma.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 20.3 · −5.6 in 7 days
3. [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 19.5 · +2.9 in 7 days
4. [Waymo - robotaxis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/waymo.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 17.6 · +7.1 in 7 days
5. [Elon Musk](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 16.7 · +12.2 in 7 days
6. [DeepSeek](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 14.9 · −2.9 in 7 days
7. [Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 13.8 · −2.8 in 7 days
8. [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 12.1 · −5.6 in 7 days
9. [Sakana AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sakana.md) — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 11.4 · +9.8 in 7 days

## Biggest moves this week

1. [Mistral AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mistral.md) — −91.7 in 7 days, now 2.7 (💤 Quiet)
2. [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md) — +39.4 in 7 days, now 43.7 (🚀 Rising)
3. [Open-weight models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/open_weights.md) — −39 in 7 days, now 22.6 (💤 Quiet)
4. [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) — −37.7 in 7 days, now 25.8 (🔥 Hot)
5. [Siri AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/siri_ai.md) — +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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/models.md) — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- [Agents](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agents.md) — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- [Usage & adoption](https://abovethefog.app/themes/usage_adoption.md) — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- [Protocols & infra](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra.md) — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- [Business & policy](https://abovethefog.app/themes/business_policy.md) — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week
- [SF scene](https://abovethefog.app/themes/sf_scene.md) — 0 stories (0% of the day) · 0 in 7 days · steady week over week

## Explore

- Previous daily brief: [Sep 27, 2026](https://abovethefog.app/briefs/2026-09-27.md)
- Next daily brief: [Oct 14, 2026](https://abovethefog.app/briefs/2026-10-14.md)
- [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
- [Week 42, 2026](https://abovethefog.app/weekly/2026-w42.md): the topics in hype that week and the stories behind them
- [Every week](https://abovethefog.app/weekly.md): one page per week of daily briefs
- [Head to head](https://abovethefog.app/compare.md): competing topics side by side
- [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 Oct 14, 2026, 20:21 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar

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