Pulse Daily — Saturday, October 17, 2026
On Saturday, October 17, 2026, the AI world confronted a day of historic convergence: Claude Mythos 5 redesigned quantum circuits by up to 17 times fewer gates, DeepSeek dropped a massive open-source agentic model, Anthropic secretly pitched Congress its own safety bill, the FTC subpoenaed both OpenAI and Anthropic, a yawning insurance liability chasm emerged, Anthropic broke ground on a Canadian data center powered by wind, China proposed sweeping AI export controls, India's CERT-In flagged live-system agent breaches, ServiceNow launched cryptographic AI agent identity, a semi-humanoid robot…
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