Pulse Daily — Sunday, October 18, 2026

[YOU] on AI · Daily · Oct 18, 2026 · 17m

On Sunday, October 18, 2026, AI's dual nature crystallized across eleven major stories: Amazon's Atlas tool secretly scored UK warehouses for union risk, California finalized a kill-switch executive order, DeepSeek dropped a stealth model update beating rivals at a fraction of the cost, major US banks blocked unauthorized AI agents from customer accounts, StepFun open-sourced a 600-billion-parameter model, Claude Mythos 5 redesigned quantum circuits up to 17 times more efficiently, Utah's AI prescription pilot expanded, Anthropic's IPO valuation faced sharp investor skepticism, Jefferies…