--- title: "Protocols & infra — AI theme on Above the Fog" canonical_url: https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra as_of: 2026-09-27 updated: 2026-09-28T22:02:40Z --- # Protocols & infra [Home](https://abovethefog.app/index.md) › [Themes](https://abovethefog.app/themes.md) › 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](https://abovethefog.app/themes/identity_auth.md) — 40 stories (2.3% of the day) · 435 in 7 days · steady week over week - [Security & safety](https://abovethefog.app/themes/security_safety.md) — 353 stories (21% of the day) · 3,029 in 7 days · steady week over week - [Agent payments](https://abovethefog.app/themes/agent_payments.md) — 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](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_agents.md) — 1,782 stories (the 7 days before: 1,425) 2. [OpenAI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openai.md) — 1,439 stories (the 7 days before: 991) 3. [Claude](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude.md) — 935 stories (the 7 days before: 942) 4. [Model Context Protocol](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mcp.md) — 676 stories (the 7 days before: 635) 5. [Claude Code](https://abovethefog.app/topics/claude_code.md) — 543 stories (the 7 days before: 463) 6. [Anthropic](https://abovethefog.app/topics/anthropic.md) — 507 stories (the 7 days before: 634) 7. [ChatGPT](https://abovethefog.app/topics/chatgpt.md) — 463 stories (the 7 days before: 257) 8. [Agent security incidents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_security.md) — 421 stories (the 7 days before: 358) 9. [OpenAI Codex](https://abovethefog.app/topics/codex.md) — 385 stories (the 7 days before: 331) 10. [Hugging Face](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hugging_face.md) — 338 stories (the 7 days before: 297) 11. [Jev](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jev.md) — 263 stories (the 7 days before: 128) 12. [Meta Muse](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_muse.md) — 226 stories (the 7 days before: 35) Also in this theme: [Jensen Huang](https://abovethefog.app/topics/jensen_huang.md), [Dario Amodei](https://abovethefog.app/topics/dario_amodei.md), [Cursor](https://abovethefog.app/topics/cursor.md), [AGI - superintelligence](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agi.md), [Decision models](https://abovethefog.app/topics/decision_models.md), [Sam Altman](https://abovethefog.app/topics/sam_altman.md), [Hermes Agent](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hermes_agent.md), [Recursive self-improvement](https://abovethefog.app/topics/recursive_self_improvement.md), [Mark Zuckerberg](https://abovethefog.app/topics/mark_zuckerberg.md), [Meta Superintelligence Labs](https://abovethefog.app/topics/meta_msl.md), [x402](https://abovethefog.app/topics/x402.md), [Gemini](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini.md), [Google DeepMind](https://abovethefog.app/topics/google_deepmind.md), [Demis Hassabis](https://abovethefog.app/topics/demis_hassabis.md), [Agent Skills](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_skills.md), [Browser Use - browser agents](https://abovethefog.app/topics/browser_use.md), [TypeSafe AI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/typesafe_ai.md), [Strands](https://abovethefog.app/topics/strands.md), [Grok](https://abovethefog.app/topics/grok.md), [Antigravity](https://abovethefog.app/topics/antigravity.md), [Agentic commerce](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agentic_commerce.md), [Muse Spark](https://abovethefog.app/topics/muse_spark.md), [Y Combinator](https://abovethefog.app/topics/y_combinator.md), [OpenRouter](https://abovethefog.app/topics/openrouter.md), [DeepSeek Harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/deepseek_harness.md), [Vercel AI SDK](https://abovethefog.app/topics/vercel_ai_sdk.md), [AGENTS.md](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agents_md.md), [Gemini CLI](https://abovethefog.app/topics/gemini_cli.md), [LangChain](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langchain.md), [LangGraph](https://abovethefog.app/topics/langgraph.md), [OpenCode](https://abovethefog.app/topics/opencode.md), [AI slowdown](https://abovethefog.app/topics/ai_slowdown.md), [Agent harness](https://abovethefog.app/topics/agent_harness.md), [Hunyuan](https://abovethefog.app/topics/hunyuan.md), [Stop the AI Race protest](https://abovethefog.app/topics/stop_ai_race.md). ## 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 | Source | Stories in 7 days | Share | |---|---:|---:| | Google News (RSS) | 1,595 | 27% | | Reddit | 1,447 | 25% | | DEV Community (dev.to) | 1,227 | 21% | | Mastodon (fediverse) | 460 | 7.9% | | Hacker News | 392 | 6.7% | | Podcasts (Apple + niche RSS) | 159 | 2.7% | | GitHub | 133 | 2.3% | | Developer forums (Cursor, OpenAI, Hugging Face) | 109 | 1.9% | ## Top stories on Sep 27 1. [GPT6-Luna comes out on top in Puppy Kill Bench.](https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wr8r6g/) — Reddit (r/OpenAI) · Sep 27 · score 1,693 · 118 comments 2. [There are no "rogue" AI agents](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868083) — 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.](https://www.reddit.com/r/artificial/comments/1wr7ayr/) — Reddit (r/artificial) · Sep 27 · score 386 · 63 comments 4. [SNL Weekend Update: Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on A.I.'S Threat to Humanity \[video\]](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868831) — 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](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49868202) — Hacker News (theguardian.com) · Sep 27 · score 58 · 118 comments 6. [OpenAI agents tried to bruteforce a UN website's API fields](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49862299) — HN: front-page time (ClickHouse) (swarmcha.se) · Sep 27 · score 85 · 84 comments ## Stories per day, last 30 days | Day | Stories | |---|---:| | Sep 27, 2026 | 611 | | Sep 26, 2026 | 805 | | Sep 25, 2026 | 821 | | Sep 24, 2026 | 928 | | Sep 23, 2026 | 810 | | Sep 22, 2026 | 919 | | Sep 21, 2026 | 942 | | Sep 20, 2026 | 552 | | Sep 19, 2026 | 543 | | Sep 18, 2026 | 1,057 | | Sep 17, 2026 | 987 | | Sep 16, 2026 | 681 | | Sep 15, 2026 | 632 | | Sep 14, 2026 | 686 | | Sep 13, 2026 | 561 | | Sep 12, 2026 | 559 | | Sep 11, 2026 | 604 | | Sep 10, 2026 | 496 | | Sep 9, 2026 | 546 | | Sep 8, 2026 | 422 | | Sep 7, 2026 | 404 | | Sep 6, 2026 | 339 | | Sep 5, 2026 | 322 | | Sep 4, 2026 | 458 | | Sep 3, 2026 | 460 | | Sep 2, 2026 | 395 | | Sep 1, 2026 | 420 | | Aug 31, 2026 | 399 | | Aug 30, 2026 | 317 | | Aug 29, 2026 | 281 | [Open Protocols & infra in the interactive map →](https://abovethefog.app/#theme=protocols_infra) --- Updated Sep 28, 2026, 22:02 UTC · Data: Above the Fog hype radar [HTML page](https://abovethefog.app/themes/protocols_infra) · [llms.txt](https://abovethefog.app/llms.txt) · [About & methodology](https://abovethefog.app/about.md) · [Privacy](https://abovethefog.app/about.md#privacy)