Above the Fog

What’s trending in AI —

On Oct 18, 2026, Above the Fog’s AI hype radar scored 103 topics across 34 sources. 3 topics are in hype now (rising or hot), 19 cooling and 81 quiet.

Data note: 8 of the last 14 days were not collected live. No collection ran on Oct 5–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.

In hype now

  1. OpenCode — 🔥 Hot · hype score 59 · +56.6 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 14
  2. Elon Musk — 🚀 Rising · hype score 46.5 · +31.9 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12
  3. DeepSeek — 🔥 Hot · hype score 42.6 · +41.5 in 7 days · in hype since Oct 12

Cooling

  1. Gemini Argon — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 32 · +30.1 in 7 days
  2. Claude Code — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 25.6 · +15.2 in 7 days
  3. Open-weight models — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 24.8 · +11.7 in 7 days
  4. Google DeepMind — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 22 · +9 in 7 days
  5. RTX Spark — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 20.3 · +8.5 in 7 days
  6. Muse Spark — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 18.2 · +18.2 in 7 days
  7. Claude — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 17.4 · +17 in 7 days
  8. Physical AI - humanoids — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 17.1 · +17.1 in 7 days
  9. Google Cloud — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.8 · −3.3 in 7 days
  10. AI agents — 🧊 Cooling · hype score 15.4 · +2.4 in 7 days

Biggest moves this week

  1. OpenCode — +56.6 in 7 days, now 59 (🔥 Hot)
  2. DeepSeek — +41.5 in 7 days, now 42.6 (🔥 Hot)
  3. Elon Musk — +31.9 in 7 days, now 46.5 (🚀 Rising)
  4. Gemini Argon — +30.1 in 7 days, now 32 (🧊 Cooling)
  5. Hermes Agent — −26.1 in 7 days, now 0.6 (💤 Quiet)

Themes today

Stories kept by the radar on Oct 18, 2026, by theme (a story can carry several themes):

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