Pulse Daily — Friday, October 2, 2026
On Friday, October 2, 2026, the AI world was shaken by OpenAI firing three safety researchers for sharing confidential data, Anthropic confirming a pre-Thanksgiving IPO targeting a record $2 trillion valuation, Microsoft launching a real-time streaming voice AI stack, OpenAI's Agents API opening broadly to developers, Salesforce acquiring AI research startup Listen Labs for ~$2 billion, Gatik raising $200M for autonomous freight, MIT unveiling a weather-forecasting AI that needs no historical disaster data, and a cascade of rogue-agent security incidents shadowing it all. Stories: OpenAI…
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