Pulse Daily — Friday, September 11, 2026
On Friday, September 11, 2026, the AI world confronted its own contradictions: Microsoft unveiled a historic 38-gigawatt data-center expansion, Anthropic exposed a 200-million-exchange industrial espionage campaign by Chinese AI labs, Europe's Mistral closed the continent's largest-ever tech fundraise, a researcher walked out of Anthropic warning that AI could end humanity, Positron raised $875 million for a memory-first inference chip, OpenAI opened its Agents API to public beta, Google and Cathay Pacific expanded AI contrail-avoidance trials, Meta and OpenAI raced toward dueling agent…
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