AI News for May 6, 2026 — 7min.ai

[TOOLS] GPT-5.5 Instant ships as ChatGPT default, cuts hallucinations 52.5% and adds memory sources: OpenAI's GPT-5.5 Instant has shipped as ChatGPT's new default model, claiming 52.5% fewer hallucinated claims on high-stakes prompts in medicine, law, and finance, plus a 37.3% drop in inaccuracies on user-flagged conversations.
[TOOLS] Anthropic ships 10 finance AI agents and Claude Opus 4.7 through its Wall Street JV: Anthropic's new financial services joint venture with Blackstone, Goldman Sachs, and Hellman & Friedman launched with ten preconfigured AI agents: a model builder, pitch builder, KYC screener, earnings reviewer, and month-end close agent among them.
[NEWS] CAISI signs deals with Google, Microsoft, xAI for pre-release national security testing: The US Commerce Department's Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) signed agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI to evaluate frontier AI models before public release for cybersecurity, biosecurity, and chemical weapons risks.
[NEWS] Brockman day two: Musk demanded 51% of OpenAI, stormed out, and asked if Demis was evil: On his second day in the Musk v.
[NEWS] Samsung hits $1 trillion valuation as AI chip rally lifts Kospi past 7,000: Samsung Electronics closed 14.4% higher Wednesday to top a $1 trillion market cap, joining TSMC as the second Asian company to reach the milestone.
[NEWS] Coinbase cuts 14% of staff, replaces 'pure managers' with player-coaches: Coinbase laid off about 700 employees—14% of its workforce—as CEO Brian Armstrong restructured the company around AI.
[NEWS] Apple to let users swap Gemini, Claude into Siri across iOS 27, iPadOS 27, macOS 27: Apple will let iOS 27 users pick from third-party AI models to power Apple Intelligence features system-wide, including Siri, Writing Tools, and Image Playground, Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reported.
[NEWS] OpenAI fast-tracks AI smartphone with MediaTek chips for early 2027 launch: OpenAI is fast-tracking its first hardware product, a smartphone aimed at iPhone-scale shipments, with mass production targeted for the first half of 2027, analyst Ming-Chi Kuo reported.
[RESEARCH] Google releases Gemma 4 Multi-Token Prediction drafters for 3x inference speedup: Google released Multi-Token Prediction (MTP) drafters for the Gemma 4 family, delivering up to 3x faster inference via speculative decoding without quality loss.
[NEWS] SAP acquires Prior Labs for $1.16B and Dremio to build European frontier AI lab: SAP plans to acquire 18-month-old German AI startup Prior Labs and invest €1B (~$1.16B) over four years to scale it into a frontier AI lab focused on tabular foundation models—models that predict from structured database data rather than text.

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