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What’s trending in AI —

On Oct 15, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 100 topics across 34 sources. 25 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 12 cooling and 63 quiet.

Data note: 11 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 2–Oct 12, or a later run refilled those days at once. Every hype score is measured against the 14 days before it and those days are thin, so the scores, the stages and the week-over-week theme trends may read higher than they are until they leave that window on Oct 27.

Storylines today

Topics in hype today that the radar’s curated relations link (made by, part of, related to), read together. Each storyline starts with the topic the others are made by or part of, or with the higher-scored of two related topics; the story in the news behind each is under In hype now:

In hype now

  1. Claude — 🚀 Rising · hype score 66.1 · +16.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  2. Muse Spark — 🚀 Rising · hype score 62.6 · +61.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  3. Anthropic — 🚀 Rising · hype score 61.5 · +30.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  4. Vibe coding — 🚀 Rising · hype score 58.3 · +34.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  5. Gemini — 🔥 Hot · hype score 56.2 · +30.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  6. Claude Code — 🚀 Rising · hype score 55.6 · +37.6 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  7. OpenCode — 🚀 Rising · hype score 50.6 · +35.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  8. Local inference — 🚀 Rising · hype score 42 · +37.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  9. Model Context Protocol — 🚀 Rising · hype score 41.3 · +24.6 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  10. Data centers - compute — 🔥 Hot · hype score 40.7 · +38.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  11. Open-weight models — 🚀 Rising · hype score 38.6 · +14.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  12. Gemma — 🔥 Hot · hype score 38.4 · +13.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 6
  13. Cursor — 🔥 Hot · hype score 38.1 · +7.9 in 7 days · in hype since Sep 20
  14. ChatGPT — 🚀 Rising · hype score 37.4 · +13.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  15. Grok Bot — 🚀 Rising · hype score 35.8 · +19.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 15
  16. Antigravity — 🚀 Rising · hype score 34.3 · +23.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  17. Nvidia — 🚀 Rising · hype score 33.6 · +15.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  18. AI agents — 🔥 Hot · hype score 32.5 · +13.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  19. OpenAI Codex — 🚀 Rising · hype score 32.4 · +11.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  20. Gemini Argon — 🔥 Hot · hype score 30.8 · +21.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  21. OpenAI — 🚀 Rising · hype score 29.9 · −8.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  22. Jev — 🔥 Hot · hype score 29.2 · −27 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  23. Hermes Agent — 🔥 Hot · hype score 28.9 · −11.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 11
  24. Meta Superintelligence Labs — 🚀 Rising · hype score 28.1 · +24.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 13
  25. Elon Musk — 🔥 Hot · hype score 27.5 · +8.8 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12

Cooling

  1. DeepSeek — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 26.3 · −0.1 in 7 days
  2. Grok — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 24.9 · +13.1 in 7 days
  3. SF AI scene — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 24.8 · +21.9 in 7 days
  4. Google DeepMind — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 24.2 · −1.7 in 7 days
  5. Siri AI — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 22.1 · +19.2 in 7 days
  6. Y Combinator — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.9 · +16.3 in 7 days
  7. AI bubble - capex — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.7 · +1.9 in 7 days
  8. Strands Agents — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 17.8 · −0.8 in 7 days
  9. OpenRouter — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 16.6 · −24.4 in 7 days
  10. Google Cloud — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 13.8 · −6.2 in 7 days

Biggest moves this week

  1. Muse Spark — +61.7 in 7 days, now 62.6 (🚀 Rising)
  2. GPT-6 Astra — −57.9 in 7 days, now 1.2 (💤 Quiet)
  3. AI in math — −46.4 in 7 days, now 1.5 (💤 Quiet)
  4. Mistral AI — −45.8 in 7 days, now 20.2 (💤 Quiet)
  5. Data centers - compute — +38.3 in 7 days, now 40.7 (🔥 Hot)

Themes today

Data note: Oct 14 is only 84% classified. Share of each day's items classified: Oct 14 84%. Theme counts for those days are low, so the week-over-week trends lean toward “fading”.

Stories kept by the radar on Oct 15, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

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