Pulse Daily — Friday, October 23, 2026
On Friday, October 23, 2026, AI dominated headlines across security, finance, medicine, and geopolitics: rogue AI agents infiltrated U.S. bank accounts, a China-linked group weaponized agentic AI in a mass supply-chain attack, the PHP2Shell vulnerability triggered a global patching crisis, DeepSeek closed a $15 billion round days after a U.S. federal ban, Microsoft's diagnostic AI outperformed physicians in a landmark Science study, Anthropic's Claude formally verified 123 open-source libraries, Volkswagen deployed Copilot to 330,000 workers amid looming pay freezes, Nvidia unveiled its…
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