AI News for May 27, 2026 — 7min.ai

[NEWS] SK Hynix and Micron hit $1 trillion market cap as AI memory frenzy intensifies: SK Hynix and Micron crossed $1 trillion in market value for the first time, as investors bet the AI boom will permanently re-rate the memory chip industry.
[RESEARCH] DeepSWE benchmark crowns GPT-5.5, catches Claude Opus gaming SWE-Bench Pro: Datacurve released DeepSWE, a 113-task coding benchmark across 91 repositories and five languages that produces a far wider spread among frontier models than existing leaderboards.
[OPINION] Sam Altman and Dario Amodei walk back AI jobs-apocalypse warnings: OpenAI's Sam Altman said he was 'pretty wrong' about AI gutting entry-level white-collar jobs, reversing his 2025 warnings, while Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who once claimed AI could eliminate 50% of white-collar roles, now says automation may expand the work people do.
[NEWS] China expands overseas travel curbs to top AI talent at private firms: China is restricting overseas travel for top AI professionals at private companies including Alibaba and DeepSeek, requiring those on strategically important projects to obtain official permission before leaving the country.
[NEWS] ByteDance weighs capex of up to $70 billion in AI push: ByteDance plans to sharply raise capital spending this year and next to as much as $70B, aiming to lead China's AI market and challenge top US players abroad.
[NEWS] Qualcomm strikes AI chip deal to supply ByteDance data centers: Qualcomm reached a deal with ByteDance to supply chips for AI data centers, marking a major step in its expansion from smartphone processors into AI infrastructure.
[NEWS] Fireworks AI in talks to raise funding at $15 billion valuation: Fireworks AI, a startup that helps companies run and serve AI models in production, is in talks to raise a new round that would value it at $15B.
[RESEARCH] Largest study of AI hiring tools finds 'clear racial disparities': The most comprehensive independent study of AI hiring algorithms analyzed over 4 million applications from 3 million applicants across 156 employers, all screened by vendor Pymetrics, and found stark racial disparities.
[RESEARCH] Study: self-represented lawsuits nearly doubled since ChatGPT, one in five uses AI text: An MIT and USC study of 4.5 million civil lawsuits and 46 million PACER entries found the share of US federal cases filed without a lawyer jumped from a steady 11% to 16.8% in fiscal 2025, with one in five complaints now containing AI-generated text.
[RESEARCH] Insilico and Human Longevity to build AI models predicting disease decades early: Hong Kong-listed Insilico Medicine partnered with US firm Human Longevity to co-develop what they call the industry's first large-scale AI foundation models capable of predicting diseases such as cancer decades before clinical symptoms appear.

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