Protocols & infra

Protocols & infra is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into. On Sep 27, 2026, 611 kept stories were about it (36% of the day, against a 7-day average of 32%). 5,836 stories in 7 days, about as many as the week before.

Stories on Sep 27

611

Share of the day

36%

Share, 7-day average

32%

Change vs the 7-day average

+4 percentage points

Stories in 7 days

5,836

The 7 days before

5,138

Week over week

steady (about as many as the week before)

Hands-on share

39% (tutorials, show and tell, questions)

Sub-themes

• Identity & auth — 40 stories (2.3% of the day) · 435 in 7 days · steady week over week
• Security & safety — 353 stories (21% of the day) · 3,029 in 7 days · steady week over week
• Agent payments — 24 stories (1.4% of the day) · 341 in 7 days · rising week over week

Topics in this theme

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

1. AI agents — 1,782 stories (the 7 days before: 1,425)
2. OpenAI — 1,439 stories (the 7 days before: 991)
3. Claude — 935 stories (the 7 days before: 942)
4. Model Context Protocol — 676 stories (the 7 days before: 635)
5. Claude Code — 543 stories (the 7 days before: 463)
6. Anthropic — 507 stories (the 7 days before: 634)
7. ChatGPT — 463 stories (the 7 days before: 257)
8. Agent security incidents — 421 stories (the 7 days before: 358)
9. OpenAI Codex — 385 stories (the 7 days before: 331)
10. Hugging Face — 338 stories (the 7 days before: 297)
11. Jev — 263 stories (the 7 days before: 128)
12. Meta Muse — 226 stories (the 7 days before: 35)

Also in this theme: Jensen Huang, Dario Amodei, Cursor, AGI - superintelligence, Decision models, Sam Altman, Hermes Agent, Recursive self-improvement, Mark Zuckerberg, Meta Superintelligence Labs, x402, Gemini, Google DeepMind, Demis Hassabis, Agent Skills, Browser Use - browser agents, TypeSafe AI, Strands, Grok, Antigravity, Agentic commerce, Muse Spark, Y Combinator, OpenRouter, DeepSeek Harness, Vercel AI SDK, AGENTS.md, Gemini CLI, LangChain, LangGraph, OpenCode, AI slowdown, Agent harness, Hunyuan, Stop the AI Race protest.

Companies in its stories

The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (35% involve none):

• OpenAI — 26%
• Anthropic — 14%
• Other company — 14%
• Meta — 3.5%
• Google — 3.1%

Kinds of stories

• News — 43%
• Show and tell — 22%
• Opinion — 16%
• Tutorial — 11%
• Question — 6%
• Research — 2.7%

Where its stories come from

Top stories on Sep 27

1. GPT6-Luna comes out on top in Puppy Kill Bench. — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 27 · score 1,693 · 118 comments
2. There are no "rogue" AI agents — Hacker News (eoinhiggins.substack.com) · Sep 27 · score 387 · 267 comments
3. The first real AI worms have arrived. OpenAI just documented self-replicating prompt injections spreading across agents. — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 27 · score 386 · 63 comments
4. 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
5. OpenAI halts training of latest models as reports mount of AI agents going rogue — Hacker News (theguardian.com) · Sep 27 · score 58 · 118 comments
6. OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (swarmcha.se) · Sep 27 · score 85 · 84 comments

Stories per day, last 30 days

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