Pulse Daily — Monday, October 12, 2026
On Monday, October 12, 2026, the AI world saw a historic convergence of hardware ambition, acquisition warfare, and governance fracture: Microsoft unveiled the Maia 300 chip, Amazon moved to acquire Decart for $7B, AMD's $8.2B World Labs deal closed in on regulatory sign-off, the White House reversed course restoring UK AI Safety Institute access to frontier models, Anthropic launched its Cyber Mission, the NSF controversially rebranded AI as 'Super Intelligence,' a $6B White House science package landed with massive compute pledges, Sophos cut threat investigation time by 96% using OpenAI's…
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