AI News for May 18, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] Apple's standalone Siri app debuts at WWDC with auto-deleting chats: Apple will unveil a standalone Siri app at WWDC 2026 with auto-deleting chat histories, letting users retain conversations for 30 days, one year, or forever.
[NEWS] Samsung's 45,000-worker strike threatens AI memory supply: Nearly 45,000 unionized Samsung workers plan to walk off the job for 18 days starting May 21, the largest stoppage in semiconductor history.
[NEWS] Anthropic and OpenAI capture 89% of $80B AI startup revenue: A group of 34 top AI startups now pulls in close to $80B in annual revenue, up 112% in six months, with Anthropic and OpenAI accounting for 89% of the total.
[RESEARCH] SOOHAK math benchmark catches AI confidently solving unsolvable problems: A consortium of 64 mathematicians from Carnegie Mellon, EleutherAI, and Seoul National University released SOOHAK, a 439-task benchmark with 340 graduate-level problems and 99 deliberately flawed problems containing contradictions or no solution.
[RESEARCH] World Action Models survey maps robots that simulate before they move: Researchers at Fudan University, the Shanghai Innovation Institute, and the National University of Singapore published the first systematic survey of World Action Models (WAMs), a robotics class that learns from unlabeled everyday video and predicts how the environment will change before issuing a control command.
[TOOLS] Oppo open-sources X-OmniClaw, an on-device Android AI agent: Oppo's Multi-X team released X-OmniClaw, an open-source agent that runs perception, control, and app interaction directly on an Android phone, using its camera, screen, and voice without routing through a virtualized cloud phone.
[NEWS] Mistral's Mensch warns France against letting Mythos scan military code: Mistral CEO Arthur Mensch told France that Anthropic's Mythos vulnerability-discovery model should not be allowed to scan French military codebases, citing Europe's deepening cybersecurity dependency on US labs.
[NEWS] China builds national computing network as AI token demand surges: China is accelerating construction of a "national computing network," framed by state media as a "computing version of the state grid" that turns AI infrastructure into a public utility.
[NEWS] Over 100 UK datacenters plan to burn gas as grid queue stalls: More than 100 new UK data centers plan to use gas-fired generation, some permanently, after years-long waits for National Grid connections, Ofgem's director of cyber and AI regulation said.
[OPINION] Goldman Sachs: investors now treat AI as a defensive trade: Goldman Sachs traders say investors are rotating heavily back into hyperscalers and AI names as inflation, oil prices, and weakening consumer demand cloud the broader economy.

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