AI News for May 12, 2026 — 7min.ai

[RESEARCH] Google says hackers built a working zero-day with AI for 'mass exploitation event': Google Threat Intelligence Group disclosed the first zero-day exploit it has confirmed was developed with AI, targeting an unnamed open-source web admin tool to bypass 2FA at scale.
[RESEARCH] Thinking Machines unveils full-duplex 'interaction models' with 0.4s response: Mira Murati's Thinking Machines Lab announced a research preview of 'interaction models,' a class of native multimodal systems that treats real-time interactivity as a first-class architectural feature rather than a wrapper around turn-based chat.
[RESEARCH] DeepMind's AI co-mathematician tops FrontierMath Tier 4 at 48%: Google DeepMind published a paper on an agentic system built on Gemini 3.1 that scored 48% on Epoch AI's FrontierMath Tier 4, more than doubling Gemini 3.1 Pro's 19% raw score and topping the leaderboard.
[NEWS] GitLab cuts jobs and flattens org chart to meet the agentic era: GitLab announced layoffs of an unspecified portion of its 2,580 employees alongside a restructuring that removes up to three layers of management and reorganizes R&D into roughly 60 smaller, end-to-end-ownership teams.
[NEWS] Microsoft targeted $92B return on early OpenAI investment: Court documents from the Musk v.
[NEWS] Claude Platform on AWS goes generally available: Anthropic made the Claude Platform generally available on AWS, giving AWS customers full Claude API features including Claude Managed Agents, code execution, skills, and the advisor strategy, all behind IAM auth, CloudTrail logging, and a single AWS invoice that retires existing commitments.
[TOOLS] OpenAI launches Daybreak, a Codex-based offensive security agent: OpenAI introduced Daybreak, an AI initiative that uses its Codex Security agent to build a threat model from an organization's code, validate likely vulnerabilities, and automate detection of the highest-risk flaws.
[RESEARCH] Baidu's Ernie 5.1 hits 4th on Search Arena at 6% of pretraining cost: Baidu released Ernie 5.1, a model distilled from Ernie 5.0 with roughly a third of total parameters and half the active parameters per query.
[NEWS] GM lays off 600 IT workers to hire AI-native engineers: General Motors cut more than 10% of its IT department, about 600 salaried employees, in what the company describes as a deliberate skills swap.
[NEWS] Cerebras upsizes IPO to $4.8B as orders surge: Cerebras Systems raised the size of its IPO to as much as $4.8B, a one-third increase from its prior target, as the AI chipmaker and data center operator's book continued to fill.

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