Pulse Daily — Tuesday, August 4, 2026
On Tuesday, August 4, 2026, AI dominated markets and headlines as Palantir's stock rocketed 27% on a record 93% revenue surge driven by 'AI sovereignty' demand, the Future of Life Institute's Summer Safety Index found no frontier lab earned above a C+, the EU's landmark DMA orders against Google took shape, the Ai4 2026 conference opened in Las Vegas, OpenAI retired the DALL·E GPT and cut GPT-5.6 prices, Hugging Face's CEO declared China is winning the open-model AI race, AI-generated music attribution entered mainstream debate, KAIST researchers advanced AI for real-world planning…
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