What’s trending in AI —
On Oct 14, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 96 topics across 34 sources. 14 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 13 cooling and 69 quiet.
In hype now
- Gemini — 🚀 Rising · hype score 55.1 · +29.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Google DeepMind — 🚀 Rising · hype score 51.6 · +44.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Anthropic — 🚀 Rising · hype score 50.6 · +33.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Claude — 🚀 Rising · hype score 44.6 · +4.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
- Siri AI — 🔥 Hot · hype score 42.1 · +38.6 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- AI agents — 🚀 Rising · hype score 42 · +23.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
- Gemma — 🚀 Rising · hype score 38.6 · +5.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 6
- Local inference — 🚀 Rising · hype score 38.5 · +28.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
- Claude Code — 🚀 Rising · hype score 35.9 · +15.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
- Strands — 🚀 Rising · hype score 29.8 · +13.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
- OpenAI Codex — 🚀 Rising · hype score 29.7 · +13.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
- AI bubble - capex — 🚀 Rising · hype score 27.7 · +12.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
- Nvidia — 🚀 Rising · hype score 27.2 · −3.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
- OpenAI — 🚀 Rising · hype score 27.1 · −19.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
Cooling
- Cursor — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 25.6 · −3.3 in 7 days
- ChatGPT — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 22.2 · +5.8 in 7 days
- Model Context Protocol — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 19.3 · +0.1 in 7 days
- Meta Superintelligence Labs — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 19.2 · +18 in 7 days
- DeepSeek — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.6 · +16.1 in 7 days
- Vibe coding — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.4 · +6.6 in 7 days
- Data centers - compute — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.6 · +14 in 7 days
- Muse Spark — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.3 · +14.7 in 7 days
- Jev — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15 · −50.2 in 7 days
- Elon Musk — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 14.8 · +10.9 in 7 days
Biggest moves this week
- Mistral AI — −69.3 in 7 days, now 4.4 (💤 Quiet)
- Jev — −50.2 in 7 days, now 15 (🧊 Cooling)
- Google DeepMind — +44.3 in 7 days, now 51.6 (🚀 Rising)
- Siri AI — +38.6 in 7 days, now 42.1 (🔥 Hot)
- AI in math — −35.4 in 7 days, now 2.3 (💤 Quiet)
Themes today
Stories kept by the radar on Oct 14, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):
- Protocols & infra — 1,005 stories (37% of the day) · 3,822 in 7 days · rising week over week
- Business & policy — 978 stories (36% of the day) · 3,416 in 7 days · rising week over week
- Models — 681 stories (25% of the day) · 3,678 in 7 days · rising week over week
- Agents — 485 stories (18% of the day) · 2,506 in 7 days · rising week over week
- Usage & adoption — 240 stories (8.9% of the day) · 1,085 in 7 days · rising week over week
- SF scene — 31 stories (1.1% of the day) · 93 in 7 days · steady week over week
Explore
- Previous daily brief: Oct 13, 2026
- Next daily brief: Oct 15, 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