AI News for June 5, 2026 — 7min.ai

[RESEARCH] Anthropic says Claude now writes 80% of its production code: Anthropic published an Anthropic Institute post revealing that over 80% of code merged into its production codebase in May 2026 was written by Claude, not humans.
[NEWS] Airbnb's Brian Chesky launches his own AI lab focused on interface and design: Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky is funding a new AI lab to build models centered on user interaction and design, his first move into the frontier model race.
[NEWS] Altman, Amodei, Hassabis, Suleyman demand DNA screening law to block AI bioweapons: OpenAI's Sam Altman, Anthropic's Dario Amodei, Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, Microsoft AI's Mustafa Suleyman, and Meta AI's Alexandr Wang signed an open letter urging Congress to require synthetic DNA and RNA manufacturers to screen orders for dangerous pathogen sequences.
[TOOLS] OpenAI rolls out Dreaming memory for ChatGPT, extends to free users: OpenAI updated ChatGPT's memory system, dubbed Dreaming, to build coherent prose dossiers about users sorted by work, hobbies, and travel preferences instead of stored bullet-point facts.
[NEWS] FT: NSA is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos for offensive cyber operations: The Financial Times reported the National Security Agency is using Anthropic's Claude Mythos model for cyber attacks, marking one of the first confirmed deployments of a frontier AI system for offensive intelligence work.
[NEWS] Google DeepMind CEO Hassabis says AGI is 'a few years away,' estimates arrival around 2030: Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said at a Stanford Graduate School of Business fireside chat that artificial general intelligence is likely to arrive 'around 2030, plus or minus a year.' He called the moment equivalent to a technological singularity and said humanity has a very narrow window to prepare for its implications, including what he described as a 'post-scarcity world.' Hassabis cautioned that some peers are 'way too certain' about their predictions, but his own estimate puts AGI arrival closer than most public institutional forecasts.
[NEWS] Ramp raises $750M at $44B valuation as companies hunt for AI cost control: Corporate spend platform Ramp raised $750M at a $44B post-money valuation, with investors betting on AI-driven bookkeeping and expense automation.
[TOOLS] Apple approves Poke as first third-party AI agent on Messages for Business: Apple gave AI agent Poke approval to run on its Messages for Business platform, the first standalone third-party agent allowed alongside brand chat experiences.
[NEWS] Challenger: AI drove 40% of May US layoffs, year-to-date AI cuts already pass 2025 total: Challenger, Gray & Christmas attributed 40% of 97,006 May US layoffs to AI, the highest monthly share since the firm began tracking the category in 2023.
[NEWS] Supabase hits $10.5B valuation as vibe-coding boom drives database demand: Open-source database startup Supabase raised $500M at a $10.5B valuation, riding the wave of AI coding agents that spin up backends as part of generated apps.

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