--- title: "Companies & business — AI theme on Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Companies & business [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Themes](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md) › [Business & policy](https://abovethefog.app/themes/business_policy.md) › Companies & business Companies & business is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into, under Business & policy. On Sep 27, 2026, 230 kept stories were about it (13% of the day, against a 7-day average of 19%). 3,690 stories in 7 days, about as many as the week before. - **Stories on Sep 27:** 230 - **Share of the day:** 13% - **Share, 7-day average:** 19% - **Change vs the 7-day average:** −5.6 percentage points - **Stories in 7 days:** 3,690 - **The 7 days before:** 3,223 - **Week over week:** steady (about as many as the week before) - **Hands-on share:** 3% (tutorials, show and tell, questions) - **Under:** [Business & policy](https://abovethefog.app/themes/business_policy.md) ## Topics in this theme The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days: 1. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 995 stories (the 7 days before: 761) 2. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 909 stories (the 7 days before: 756) 3. [Nvidia](https://abovethefog.app/topics/nvidia.md) — 550 stories (the 7 days before: 488) 4. [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) — 413 stories (the 7 days before: 54) 5. [AI agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) — 385 stories (the 7 days before: 172) 6. [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) — 306 stories (the 7 days before: 115) 7. [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 218 stories (the 7 days before: 155) 8. [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md) — 158 stories (the 7 days before: 31) 9. [Data centers - compute](https://abovethefog.app/topics/data_centers.md) — 146 stories (the 7 days before: 108) 10. [GPT-6 Astra](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gpt6.md) — 113 stories (the 7 days before: 52) 11. [AI IPOs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_ipos.md) — 92 stories (the 7 days before: 152) 12. [Hugging Face](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face.md) — 87 stories (the 7 days before: 78) Also in this theme: [Jensen Huang](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jensen_huang.md), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.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), [Instinct](https://abovethefog.app/topics/instinct.md), [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.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), [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 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), [Waymo - robotaxis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/waymo.md). ## Companies in its stories The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (5.8% involve none): - Other company — 21% - OpenAI — 19% - Anthropic — 19% - Nvidia — 11% - Meta — 10% ## Kinds of stories - News — 80% - Opinion — 16% - Question — 1.9% - Show and tell — 0.6% - Tutorial — 0.5% - Research — 0.1% ## Where its stories come from | Source | Stories in 7 days | Share | |---|---:|---:| | Google News (RSS) | 2,402 | 65% | | Reddit | 358 | 9.7% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | 225 | 6.1% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | 162 | 4.4% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | 161 | 4.4% | | Hacker News | 110 | 3% | | Tech press (RSS) | 88 | 2.4% | | Techmeme | 88 | 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. [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 3. [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 4. [OpenAI \(2015\)](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862120) — Hacker News (openai.com) · Sep 27 · score 44 · 16 comments 5. [We need cost benchmarks based on 200$ plans](https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/comments/1wrd5x6/) — Reddit (r/codex) · Sep 27 · score 11 · 6 comments 6. [To pay for the AI data centers being built today, AI would have to replace 250 million jobs. The US has 159 million nonfarm payroll jobs. All the inputs and my arithmetics is in the post. By my estim…](https://defcon.social/@infosec/117343636637983779) — Mastodon (fediverse) (defcon.social) · Sep 27 · score 9 · 1 comment ## Stories per day, last 30 days | Day | Stories | |---|---:| | Sep 27, 2026 | 230 | | Sep 26, 2026 | 322 | | Sep 25, 2026 | 583 | | Sep 24, 2026 | 486 | | Sep 23, 2026 | 640 | | Sep 22, 2026 | 640 | | Sep 21, 2026 | 789 | | Sep 20, 2026 | 305 | | Sep 19, 2026 | 281 | | Sep 18, 2026 | 735 | | Sep 17, 2026 | 593 | | Sep 16, 2026 | 422 | | Sep 15, 2026 | 420 | | Sep 14, 2026 | 467 | | Sep 13, 2026 | 253 | | Sep 12, 2026 | 279 | | Sep 11, 2026 | 317 | | Sep 10, 2026 | 236 | | Sep 9, 2026 | 234 | | Sep 8, 2026 | 183 | | Sep 7, 2026 | 134 | | Sep 6, 2026 | 88 | | Sep 5, 2026 | 107 | | Sep 4, 2026 | 140 | | Sep 3, 2026 | 188 | | Sep 2, 2026 | 138 | | Sep 1, 2026 | 147 | | Aug 31, 2026 | 170 | | Aug 30, 2026 | 102 | | Aug 29, 2026 | 119 | [Open Companies & business in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#theme=companies_business) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/themes/companies_business) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)