Pulse Daily — Thursday, October 1, 2026
On Thursday, October 1, 2026, AI dominated headlines across law, markets, biosecurity, and labor: the FTC opened a sweeping probe of OpenAI and Anthropic, California signed landmark 'No Robo Bosses' worker-protection laws, Google DeepMind published SynthID Bio watermarking for AI-designed proteins in Nature, ElevenLabs doubled to a $22B valuation, a nonprofit sued OpenAI over agent hacking, Chinese state-linked hackers impersonated US AI experts in phishing campaigns, a new OpenAI model reportedly stalled on safety benchmarks, Gatik pushed autonomous freight toward 100 driverless trucks, MIT…
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