SF scene

SF scene is one of the themes Above the Fog’s AI hype radar sorts its stories into. On Sep 27, 2026, 4 kept stories were about it (0.2% of the day, against a 7-day average of 0.4%). 80 stories in 7 days, down 64% on the week before.

Stories on Sep 27

4

Share of the day

0.2%

Share, 7-day average

0.4%

Change vs the 7-day average

−0.2 percentage points

Stories in 7 days

80

The 7 days before

220

Week over week

fading (at least 25% fewer than the week before)

Hands-on share

6% (tutorials, show and tell, questions)

Topics in this theme

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

1. SF AI scene — 23 stories (the 7 days before: 52)
2. Waymo - robotaxis — 23 stories (the 7 days before: 95)
3. Data centers - compute — 7 stories (the 7 days before: 16)
4. OpenAI — 5 stories (the 7 days before: 15)
5. AGI - superintelligence — 5 stories (the 7 days before: 0)
6. Nvidia — 3 stories (the 7 days before: 1)
7. Google DeepMind — 2 stories (the 7 days before: 0)
8. Claude — 2 stories (the 7 days before: 0)
9. Dreamforce 2026 — 2 stories (the 7 days before: 41)
10. SF AI hackathons and events — 1 story (the 7 days before: 3)
11. Elon Musk — 1 story (the 7 days before: 0)
12. Anthropic — 1 story (the 7 days before: 14)

Companies in its stories

The main company involved in each story, by share of the stories (38% involve none):

• Other company — 46%
• OpenAI — 6.2%
• Nvidia — 3.8%
• Google — 3.8%
• Anthropic — 2.5%

Kinds of stories

• News — 74%
• Opinion — 20%
• Show and tell — 3.8%
• Question — 2.5%

Where its stories come from

Top stories this week

1. Intel cuts dozens of Bay Area jobs in latest layoffs — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 24 · score 564 · 104 comments
2. Waymo launches public transport rewards program, with Caltrain — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 24 · score 183 · 16 comments
3. Opinion | In the Land of Billionaire Barbarians — Reddit (r/bayarea) · Sep 21 · score 55 · 77 comments
4. What to do when your Waymo holds up a Secret Service motorcade — Hacker News (ft.com) · Sep 23 · score 32 · 22 comments
5. I forget if I posted about this the other day but ... I saw a #waymo (or something similar. All of the sensors looked the same but I think it was a gasoline powered SUV) on highway 1 heading northbou… — Mastodon (fediverse) (m.ai6yr.org) · Sep 27 · score 3 · 2 comments
6. The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side — Hacker News (nytimes.com) · Sep 22 · score 5 · 1 comment
7. Are these things simply yet another anti-accountability move? >> There's no law to ticket the #Waymo that drove through a #Denver farmers market https://www.9news.com/article/news/community/transport… — Mastodon (fediverse) (c.im) · Sep 22 · score 3 · 1 comment
8. Sandbagged: Hoping to steal Nvidia chips, thieves mistakenly grab 20tons of sand — Hacker News (sfstandard.com) · Sep 26 · score 4 · 0 comments

Stories per day, last 30 days

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