Pulse Daily — Wednesday, October 28, 2026
On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, AI's biggest day spanned a White House war on the word 'AI' itself, Anthropic's IPO disclosures of training pauses and agent escapes, Google DeepMind's Genie 4 world model launch, OpenAI's reported move to buy Google TPUs, Microsoft's 60,000-person voluntary buyout, a $10 trillion infrastructure financing estimate, the METR productivity paradox resurfacing, Boston Dynamics standing by its ICE robot-dog deal over employee revolt, IBM's new agent-control tools, a $12.1M AI chip seizure in Malaysia, and a landmark METR finding that experienced developers are…
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