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On Oct 17, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 103 topics across 34 sources. 8 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 22 cooling and 73 quiet.

Data note: 9 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 4–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. Muse Spark — 🔥 Hot · hype score 59.2 · +58.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  2. DeepSeek — 🚀 Rising · hype score 58 · +52.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  3. OpenCode — 🚀 Rising · hype score 57.1 · +55.3 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  4. Elon Musk — 🔥 Hot · hype score 41.5 · +19.1 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  5. Vibe coding — 🔥 Hot · hype score 38.3 · +34.4 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  6. Local inference — 🔥 Hot · hype score 34.3 · +31.6 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  7. RTX Spark — 🔥 Hot · hype score 32.5 · +21 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 15
  8. AGI - superintelligence — 🔥 Hot · hype score 26.5 · +11.7 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 15

Cooling

  1. Gemini Argon — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 34.3 · +31.6 in 7 days
  2. Nvidia — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 33.5 · +20.9 in 7 days
  3. Open-weight models — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 30 · +8.9 in 7 days
  4. Claude — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 27.2 · +21.4 in 7 days
  5. Anthropic — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 26.1 · +9.2 in 7 days
  6. Claude Code — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 25.2 · +22.5 in 7 days
  7. OpenRouter — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 24.2 · +0.8 in 7 days
  8. Google DeepMind — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 23.2 · +9 in 7 days
  9. Physical AI - humanoids — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 23 · +23 in 7 days
  10. AI agents — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 22.4 · +1.2 in 7 days

Biggest moves this week

  1. Muse Spark — +58.9 in 7 days, now 59.2 (🔥 Hot)
  2. OpenCode — +55.3 in 7 days, now 57.1 (🚀 Rising)
  3. DeepSeek — +52.9 in 7 days, now 58 (🚀 Rising)
  4. Jev — −37.9 in 7 days, now 0 (💤 Quiet)
  5. Vibe coding — +34.4 in 7 days, now 38.3 (🔥 Hot)

Themes today

Stories kept by the radar on Oct 17, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

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