AI News for May 11, 2026 — 7min.ai

[RESEARCH] METR says Claude Mythos exceeds its evaluation ceiling at 16-hour tasks: Evaluation lab METR reports Claude Mythos Preview is the first AI model to break its testing methodology, hitting a 50% success rate on 16-hour tasks with a confidence interval stretching to 55 hours.
[RESEARCH] Palisade: AI cross-border self-replication rate jumps from 6% to 81% in one year: A Palisade Research follow-up reveals the AI self-replication success rate leapt from 6% to 81% in one year.
[NEWS] Alphabet nears Nvidia for world's largest company as AI stack pays off: Alphabet closed Friday at a $4.8 trillion market cap, within striking distance of Nvidia's $5.2 trillion.
[NEWS] ByteDance bets on Chinese chips to shield $30B AI buildout from US export controls: ByteDance is turning increasingly to Chinese chips to reduce geopolitical risk and satisfy Beijing's push for domestic semiconductors, new reporting reveals about the TikTok parent's $30B 2026 AI infrastructure plan.
[NEWS] GPT-5.5 real-world costs run 49-92% higher than GPT-5.4: OpenRouter usage data shows GPT-5.5 costs 49 to 92 percent more than GPT-5.4 in production, despite OpenAI's claim that shorter responses would soften the doubled list price of $5/$30 per million input/output tokens.
[NEWS] SpaceX moves to dissolve xAI as Colossus 1 faces gas-turbine permit lawsuit: Elon Musk announced plans to dissolve xAI as a separate organization and fold it into SpaceX, a move analysts frame as a pivot toward neocloud economics ahead of SpaceX's IPO.
[TOOLS] Gemini API File Search adds multimodal RAG with page citations: Google expanded the Gemini API's File Search tool to natively process images alongside text, powered by the Gemini Embedding 2 model.
[NEWS] Maryland hit with $2B grid upgrade bill to power out-of-state AI data centers: Maryland filed a federal complaint with energy regulators after PJM Interconnection assigned the state $2 billion in transmission upgrade costs primarily driven by AI data center growth in Virginia.
[OPINION] Gen Z anger toward AI hits 31% as adoption growth stalls: A Walton Family Foundation, GSV Ventures, and Gallup survey of Gen Z found 31% now report feeling outright anger toward AI, up from 22% a year ago, while excitement and hopefulness dropped 14 and 9 points respectively.
[NEWS] Alphabet plans debut yen bond sale to fund AI race: Alphabet is preparing its first-ever yen-denominated bond issuance to help finance investments as AI competition intensifies.

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