Policy & macro

Policy & macro is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into, under Business & policy. On Sep 27, 2026, 191 kept stories were about it (11% of the day, against a 7-day average of 11%). 2,124 stories in 7 days, about as many as the week before.

Stories on Sep 27

191

Share of the day

11%

Share, 7-day average

11%

Change vs the 7-day average

−0.1 percentage points

Stories in 7 days

2,124

The 7 days before

2,811

Week over week

steady (about as many as the week before)

Hands-on share

3% (tutorials, show and tell, questions)

Under

Business & policy

Topics in this theme

The tracked topics most present in its stories of the last 7 days:

1. OpenAI — 740 stories (the 7 days before: 591)
2. Anthropic — 591 stories (the 7 days before: 605)
3. Nvidia — 230 stories (the 7 days before: 254)
4. Data centers - compute — 191 stories (the 7 days before: 206)
5. Hugging Face — 178 stories (the 7 days before: 101)
6. AI agents — 136 stories (the 7 days before: 104)
7. ChatGPT — 121 stories (the 7 days before: 42)
8. Sam Altman — 103 stories (the 7 days before: 224)
9. Jensen Huang — 99 stories (the 7 days before: 179)
10. Google DeepMind — 98 stories (the 7 days before: 142)
11. Dario Amodei — 96 stories (the 7 days before: 273)
12. Claude — 82 stories (the 7 days before: 60)

Also in this theme: AGI - superintelligence, SF AI scene, Recursive self-improvement, Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, AI bubble - capex, Safe Superintelligence, Sakana AI, SpaceXAI, Thinking Machines Lab, AI IPOs, AI regulation, AI slowdown, Stop the AI Race protest.

Companies in its stories

The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (32% involve none):

• OpenAI — 27%
• Anthropic — 16%
• Nvidia — 9.5%
• Other company — 7.8%
• Google — 3.2%

Kinds of stories

• News — 77%
• Opinion — 20%
• Question — 1.8%
• Research — 0.5%
• Show and tell — 0.4%
• Tutorial — 0.3%

Where its stories come from

Top stories on Sep 27

1. SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity [video] — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (youtube.com) · Sep 27 · score 190 · 102 comments
2. AI Should Replace a Lot of Middle Management, HR, accountants, project ppl — Reddit (r/singularity) · Sep 27 · score 133 · 91 comments
3. "I agree with Dario" - Regulating LLMs — Reddit (r/ClaudeCode) · Sep 27 · score 0 · 24 comments
4. Anthropic/OpenAI sound alarm on AI safety and seek to shape how to control it — Hacker News (apnews.com) · Sep 27 · score 7 · 3 comments
5. 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… — Mastodon (fediverse) (defcon.social) · Sep 27 · score 9 · 1 comment
6. "Seine ... „unpopuläre Meinung“ äußerte Wilson auf ... einem Treffen von rund 100 Vermögensverwaltern, Risikokapitalgebern und Tech-Gründern ... im US-Bundesstaat Texas. Zwischen einer Tour durch Cou… — Mastodon (fediverse) (23.social) · Sep 27 · score 7 · 2 comments

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