Pulse Daily — Thursday, October 8, 2026

[YOU] on AI · Daily · Oct 8, 2026 · 16m

On Thursday, October 8, 2026, the AI landscape was defined by Anthropic slashing small-model costs with Claude Haiku 5.5, OpenAI's GPT-6 reaching all ChatGPT tiers, fired OpenAI safety researchers sounding the alarm on chain-of-thought monitoring, a damning youth-safety report on ChatGPT for Teens, Pwn2Own hackers cracking AI infrastructure with 32 zero-days, Isomorphic Labs pursuing a staggering $40-billion valuation, Broadcom arranging $50 billion in chip financing for OpenAI, Mecka raising $60 million to capture human motion for humanoid robots, NVIDIA debuting RTX Spark for on-device…