AI News for May 7, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus 1 for 220,000 GPUs, doubles Claude Code limits: Anthropic signed a deal with SpaceX to take over the entire compute capacity of the Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, more than 300MW and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs coming online within a month.
[NEWS] Nvidia takes $500M stake in Corning to build out US AI optics manufacturing: Nvidia bought $500 million worth of rights for Corning shares as part of a multiyear partnership to expand US optical-connectivity capacity 10-fold.
[NEWS] Hassett confirms White House is now drafting AI pre-release safety testing order: NEC director Kevin Hassett confirmed the Trump administration is actively drafting, not merely weighing, an executive order to mandate government pre-release testing of frontier AI models before public release.
[NEWS] Anthropic commits $200B to Google Cloud over five years: Anthropic has committed roughly $200 billion to Google Cloud over the next five years, in exchange for five gigawatts of TPU server capacity starting in 2027.
[TOOLS] Anthropic teaches Claude agents to 'dream' between sessions: Anthropic introduced 'dreaming' for Claude Managed Agents, a scheduled process where agents review past sessions, identify what's worth keeping, and curate it into long-term memory.
[RESEARCH] Genesis AI debuts GENE-26.5 with human-shaped robotic hands cooking and playing piano: Genesis AI, the Khosla and Eric Schmidt-backed robotics startup, unveiled its first model GENE-26.5 alongside in-house robotic hands designed to match human size and shape.
[NEWS] SpaceX's Texas 'Terafab' chip plant could cost up to $119B: SpaceX disclosed in a Grimes County, Texas filing that its planned Terafab semiconductor facility could cost $55 billion initially and rise to $119 billion across all phases, far above Morgan Stanley's earlier $45B estimate.
[RESEARCH] OpenAI builds MRC networking protocol with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, NVIDIA: OpenAI unveiled Multipath Reliable Connection (MRC), a new network protocol co-developed with AMD, Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, and NVIDIA to fix bottlenecks in AI supercomputers.
[NEWS] Scale AI wins $500M Pentagon contract for data and decision-making AI: The Department of Defense awarded Meta-backed Scale AI a $500 million contract to help sift data and assist decision-making across military applications.
[NEWS] Moonshot AI hits $20B valuation in $2B Meituan-led round: Kimi chatbot maker Moonshot AI raised about $2 billion at a $20 billion valuation in a round led by Chinese super-app Meituan.

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