Pulse Daily — Wednesday, August 12, 2026

[YOU] on AI · Daily · Aug 12, 2026 · 15m

On Wednesday, August 12, 2026, the AI Pulse covers eleven major developments shaping the intelligence landscape: OpenAI's GPT-5.6-Cyber and the Daybreak Blue/Red cybersecurity program expansion, Astra's undisclosed 'Critical' cyber-risk threshold, OpenAI's real-world zero-day discovery in Chrome's V8 engine, the EU AI Act's high-risk enforcement now fully active, Google's consumer commerce agents making live phone purchases, the Gemini Robotics 2 family bringing whole-body humanoid control, the on-device AI revolution moving inference to the edge, Cognizant's EMEA Agentic AI Unit signalling…