--- title: "Business & policy — AI theme on Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/themes/business_policy as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Business & policy [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Themes](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md) › Business & policy Business & policy is a group of themes on Above the Fog’s AI hype radar: Companies & business, Policy & macro. On Sep 27, 2026, 329 kept stories were about it (19% of the day, against a 7-day average of 25%). 4,854 stories in 7 days, about as many as the week before. - **Stories on Sep 27:** 329 - **Share of the day:** 19% - **Share, 7-day average:** 25% - **Change vs the 7-day average:** −5.9 percentage points - **Stories in 7 days:** 4,854 - **The 7 days before:** 4,806 - **Week over week:** steady (about as many as the week before) - **Hands-on share:** 3% (tutorials, show and tell, questions) ## Sub-themes - [Companies & business](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business.md) — 230 stories (13% of the day) · 3,690 in 7 days · steady week over week - [Policy & macro](https://abovethefog.app/themes/policy_macro.md) — 191 stories (11% of the day) · 2,124 in 7 days · steady week over week ## Topics in this theme The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days: 1. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 1,291 stories (the 7 days before: 933) 2. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 1,165 stories (the 7 days before: 968) 3. [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md) — 615 stories (the 7 days before: 538) 4. [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) — 486 stories (the 7 days before: 252) 5. [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) — 425 stories (the 7 days before: 59) 6. [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) — 363 stories (the 7 days before: 137) 7. [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 259 stories (the 7 days before: 195) 8. [Data centers - compute](https://abovethefog.app/topics/data_centers.md) — 229 stories (the 7 days before: 230) 9. [Hugging Face](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face.md) — 219 stories (the 7 days before: 150) 10. [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md) — 166 stories (the 7 days before: 35) 11. [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md) — 132 stories (the 7 days before: 184) 12. [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) — 131 stories (the 7 days before: 83) Also in this theme: [Jensen Huang](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jensen_huang.md), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md), [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md), [Siri AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/siri_ai.md), [Physical AI - humanoids](https://abovethefog.app/topics/physical_ai.md), [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md), [SF AI scene](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sf_ai_scene.md), [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md), [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md), [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md), [Demis Hassabis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis.md), [Cognition](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cognition.md), [Foundry](https://abovethefog.app/topics/foundry.md), [MiniMax](https://abovethefog.app/topics/minimax.md), [Elon Musk](https://abovethefog.app/topics/elon_musk.md), [Perplexity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/perplexity.md), [Agentic commerce](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agentic_commerce.md), [AI bubble - capex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_bubble.md), [Y Combinator](https://abovethefog.app/topics/y_combinator.md), [Safe Superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ssi.md), [Sakana AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sakana.md), [SpaceXAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/spacexai.md), [Thinking Machines Lab](https://abovethefog.app/topics/thinking_machines.md), [AI IPOs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos.md), [AI regulation](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_regulation.md), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md), [Dreamforce 2026](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dreamforce.md), [Stop the AI Race protest](https://abovethefog.app/topics/stop_ai_race.md), [Waymo - robotaxis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/waymo.md). ## Companies in its stories The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (16% involve none): - OpenAI — 21% - Other company — 18% - Anthropic — 16% - Nvidia — 9.6% - Meta — 7.8% ## Kinds of stories - News — 78% - Opinion — 19% - Question — 2.1% - Show and tell — 0.6% - Tutorial — 0.5% - Research — 0.3% ## Where its stories come from | Source | Stories in 7 days | Share | |---|---:|---:| | Google News (RSS) | 2,891 | 60% | | Reddit | 552 | 11% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | 399 | 8.2% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | 248 | 5.1% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | 195 | 4% | | Hacker News | 162 | 3.3% | | Tech press (RSS) | 125 | 2.6% | | Techmeme | 116 | 2.4% | ## Top stories on Sep 27 1. [Unsealed Briefs in Authors’ Case v. Microsoft/OpenAI](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49863864) — Hacker News (authorsguild.org) · Sep 27 · score 626 · 611 comments 2. [SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity \[video\]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868831) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (youtube.com) · Sep 27 · score 190 · 102 comments 3. [AI Should Replace a Lot of Middle Management, HR, accountants, project ppl](https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1wrbbnv/) — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 27 · score 133 · 91 comments 4. [Well, the $500 ChatGPT Pro Max plan is looking pretty real now.](https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/1wr804e/) — Reddit (r/ChatGPT) · Sep 27 · score 147 · 48 comments 5. [The Quest for Embedded Evaluators](https://thezvi.substack.com/p/the-quest-for-embedded-evaluators) — AI newsletters (RSS) (Zvi) · Sep 27 · score 44 · 31 comments 6. [OpenAI \(2015\)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862120) — Hacker News (openai.com) · Sep 27 · score 44 · 16 comments ## Stories per day, last 30 days | Day | Stories | |---|---:| | Sep 27, 2026 | 329 | | Sep 26, 2026 | 432 | | Sep 25, 2026 | 751 | | Sep 24, 2026 | 660 | | Sep 23, 2026 | 824 | | Sep 22, 2026 | 821 | | Sep 21, 2026 | 1,037 | | Sep 20, 2026 | 407 | | Sep 19, 2026 | 411 | | Sep 18, 2026 | 1,067 | | Sep 17, 2026 | 913 | | Sep 16, 2026 | 625 | | Sep 15, 2026 | 661 | | Sep 14, 2026 | 722 | | Sep 13, 2026 | 419 | | Sep 12, 2026 | 418 | | Sep 11, 2026 | 473 | | Sep 10, 2026 | 346 | | Sep 9, 2026 | 343 | | Sep 8, 2026 | 229 | | Sep 7, 2026 | 187 | | Sep 6, 2026 | 109 | | Sep 5, 2026 | 136 | | Sep 4, 2026 | 195 | | Sep 3, 2026 | 243 | | Sep 2, 2026 | 172 | | Sep 1, 2026 | 190 | | Aug 31, 2026 | 220 | | Aug 30, 2026 | 113 | | Aug 29, 2026 | 138 | [Open Business & policy in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#theme=business_policy) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/themes/business_policy) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)