
Pulse Daily — Tuesday, October 13, 2026
On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, AI's most consequential single day in months saw Anthropic warn that small models are months from self-replicating on $55 TV boxes, Character.AI file for Chapter 11 with Disney bidding just $20 million for its IP, the IMF label an AI correction a top global financial risk, Microsoft unveil its Maia 300 chip, Broadcom's CEO call the AI market a casino, OpenAI's GPT-5.6 reach Microsoft 365 Copilot, NVIDIA's Nemotron 3 Ultra cut enterprise agent costs tenfold, Alibaba launch $450 AI smart glasses, Linus Torvalds post a Claude-assisted Linux kernel branch, South…
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