The AI Panic Attention Score is this site's own metric for how much a story is being talked about: it weighs how many independent sources cover the same event, how fresh the coverage is, and how it spreads. It is deliberately not a sentiment measure and not investment advice — it says how loud the room is, not whether the news is good.
Attention separates signal from noise: a genuinely breaking development is covered by many independent outlets at once, while a single rehashed press release is not. Knowing what the score measures — and what it does not — keeps you from misreading it as a recommendation.
A major model release covered by twenty independent sources within hours gets a high attention score; one blog repeating the same announcement does not move it much.