Note from Matt: Below is an AI-generated list of AI news and tools. Our bot scours the internet daily to find AI news. Because it’s AI, it often finds older news or non-AI news and adds it to the mix. It also seems to break links often. We’re constantly working on improving the automation but this should, for the most part, ensure no AI news ever gets missed

The Latest AI News:

• Meta to train AI on public data from EU users – Meta announced it will begin training its generative AI models using public data from its users in the European Union and the United Kingdom, starting June 26th.
• Apple building ‘Private Cloud Compute’ with in-house chips for AI features – Apple is building its own servers with in-house M2 Ultra chips to power upcoming advanced AI features, processing sensitive user data in a “secure enclave” to ensure privacy.
• Nvidia announces new ‘Rubin’ AI chip platform for 2026 – Nvidia revealed its next-generation ‘Rubin’ AI platform, planned for a 2026 release, signaling a new, aggressive one-year release cycle for its AI chips.
• AMD reveals new AI chips to compete with Nvidia – AMD unveiled its new Instinct MI325X AI accelerator and detailed a roadmap for new chips annually to challenge Nvidia’s dominance in the AI hardware market.
• Google scales back AI Overviews in Search after errors – Google has significantly reduced the frequency of its AI Overviews feature in search results and added new restrictions following widespread reports of it providing bizarre and inaccurate answers.
• Microsoft’s new ‘Recall’ AI feature faces privacy scrutiny in the UK – The UK’s data regulator is investigating Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature, which periodically screenshots user activity, over significant privacy and data security concerns.
• Humane is reportedly looking for a buyer – Following poor reviews for its AI Pin, tech startup Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer for its business for a price between $750 million and $1 billion.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn prompts into articles – AI search engine Perplexity has introduced Pages, a new feature that allows users to generate, customize, and share visually formatted articles on any topic from a single prompt.
• Character.AI in funding talks that could value it over $5 billion – The AI chatbot platform Character.AI is reportedly in discussions with investors, including Google, for a new funding round that could value the company at more than $5 billion.
• Stanford report finds leading AI models still lack transparency – The second Foundation Model Transparency Index from Stanford University shows that while overall transparency has improved, major AI labs like OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic still fail to disclose critical information about their models.
• Report details Sam Altman’s continued pursuit of Scarlett Johansson for OpenAI voice – A new report claims that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman continued to ask Scarlett Johansson to voice a ChatGPT persona even after her agent had formally declined the offer.
• AI helps paralyzed woman speak through a digital avatar – In a major breakthrough, researchers used AI to decode a paralyzed woman’s brain signals into text and speech, allowing her to communicate through a digital avatar at 78 words per minute.
• Luma Labs releases ‘Dream Machine’ text-to-video AI model – Luma Labs has launched Dream Machine, a new publicly available text-to-video model capable of generating high-quality, realistic, and dynamic 5-second video clips from simple text prompts.
• Snowflake releases ‘Arctic’, a new open-source enterprise AI model – Snowflake has released Arctic, a new, powerful, and truly open large language model designed for enterprise use, featuring a unique Mixture-of-Experts architecture for efficient performance.
• UK self-driving startup Wayve raises over $1 billion – Wayve, a UK-based startup developing “embodied AI” for autonomous vehicles, has raised $1.05 billion in a Series C funding round led by SoftBank.
• AI video generator Pika Labs raises $80M – Pika Labs, the company behind the popular AI video generation platform, has raised $80 million in a Series B funding round, valuing the company at over $470 million.
• Google introduces Med-Gemini for advanced medical reasoning – Google has developed Med-Gemini, a new family of highly capable multimodal AI models specifically optimized for complex reasoning tasks in clinical and medical settings.
• AI is dramatically accelerating the drug discovery process – Researchers are increasingly using AI platforms, including Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold, to design and test potential new medicines at a speed previously unimaginable.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace enters technical preview – GitHub has launched a technical preview of Copilot Workspace, a new AI-native environment that helps developers brainstorm, plan, build, and test code using natural language.
• ElevenLabs launches a new model for text-to-sound-effects – AI voice company ElevenLabs has released a new generative model that can create sound effects, short instrumental tracks, and soundscapes from text prompts.
• Microsoft invests $1.5 billion in UAE-based AI firm G42 – Microsoft is investing $1.5 billion in G42, an artificial intelligence company in the United Arab Emirates, in a strategic partnership aimed at promoting AI development in the region.
• GPT-4 scored in the 90th percentile on the bar exam – A new study found that OpenAI’s GPT-4 not only passed the Uniform Bar Exam but achieved a score that placed it in the 90th percentile, outperforming the vast majority of human test-takers.
• Google DeepMind’s Genie AI creates playable 2D games from an image – Google DeepMind has developed an AI model named Genie that can generate interactive, playable 2D platformer game levels from a single image or text prompt.
• Enterprise AI search platform Glean raises $200M – Glean, a company that provides an AI-powered search solution for internal company knowledge, has raised $200 million in a new funding round, valuing it at $2.2 billion.
• Google’s VLOGGER AI animates a person from a single photo – Google researchers have developed VLOGGER, a generative AI model that can create a controllable, lifelike video of a person speaking and gesturing from just a single still image.
• OpenAI signs content deals with The Atlantic and Vox Media – OpenAI has partnered with Vox Media and The Atlantic to license their content archives for training its models and to integrate their real-time reporting into ChatGPT.
• Mistral AI navigates US-China geopolitical tensions – French AI startup Mistral is carefully positioning itself as a European company to avoid being caught in the escalating technological conflict between the US and China.
• Final text of the EU AI Act has been published – The final, official text of the landmark EU AI Act has been published, setting a timeline for the rules to become applicable in stages, with most provisions taking effect within two years.
• Suno launches mobile app for AI music creation – Suno, the popular tool for generating songs with AI, has released its first mobile apps for both iOS and Android users.
• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics partner on an open-source robot – Hugging Face is collaborating with Pollen Robotics to create Reachy 2, an open-source, general-purpose humanoid robot powered by the LeRobot library.
• SEC investigates investment firms’ use of AI – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether investment advisers are misleading clients about their use of artificial intelligence.
• Inflection makes its models available to developers via API – Inflection AI is now offering its language models to developers through APIs on Microsoft Azure, Amazon Bedrock, and its own platform.
• AI-powered hearing aids are getting better at tuning out noise – New hearing aids are using on-device AI to better differentiate between speech and background sounds, improving the listening experience for users in noisy environments.
• AI music is being used to commit streaming fraud – A new report from a French music distributor highlights the growing issue of AI-generated music being uploaded to platforms like Spotify to fraudulently generate royalties.
• How AI is quietly changing Hollywood – A new report details the ways artificial intelligence tools for script analysis, storyboarding, and virtual effects are already being integrated into the filmmaking process.
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt invests in Greek AI chatbot – Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has invested in Helvia, a Greek startup developing an AI-powered chatbot designed to improve communication between citizens and government agencies.
• Amazon in talks to build multi-billion dollar data centers in Saudi Arabia – Amazon Web Services is reportedly in discussions to establish a significant data center presence in Saudi Arabia, which could involve an investment of several billion dollars.
• Kore.ai raises $150M for enterprise conversational AI – Kore.ai, a platform that helps businesses build advanced conversational AI assistants, has raised $150 million in a new funding round.
• Midjourney discontinues its print magazine – AI image generator Midjourney has announced it is shutting down its physical monthly magazine after 13 issues to refocus its resources on the core AI service.
• The new must-have executive role: Chief AI Officer – A growing number of companies are creating a new C-suite position, the Chief AI Officer, to lead their AI strategy and implementation.
• Raspberry Pi plans for London Stock Exchange IPO – Raspberry Pi, the creator of the popular low-cost single-board computers, has officially announced its intention to float on the main market of the London Stock Exchange.

Trending AI Tools:

• Coze – A no-code platform from Bytedance that lets anyone create their own AI chatbots for various messaging apps.
• Perplexity – An AI-native search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• Rabbit R1 – A pocket-sized, standalone AI assistant device designed to use your apps for you through a natural language interface.
• Suno – An AI music and song generator that can create realistic songs, complete with vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Galileo Luna – A family of high-performance, open-source Large Language Models specifically designed for text-to-SQL tasks.
• Pika – An idea-to-video platform that uses AI to generate and edit videos from text, images, or existing video clips.
• Lindy – An AI assistant designed to automate complex workflows by handling tasks like email drafting, calendar management, and contract drafting.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that specializes in creating images with coherent and reliable text incorporated into them.
• Krea – A creative suite of AI tools that allows for real-time image and video generation and enhancement.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered trip planner that creates personalized, detailed travel itineraries and recommendations based on your preferences.
• Viggle – A new AI model that can make any character in a still image move realistically based on a source video prompt.
• Animate Anyone – A research project that demonstrates synthesizing videos of a person from a single image, animated by motion sequences.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools for video generation, editing, and visual effects.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• ElevenLabs – A voice technology research company providing AI-powered text-to-speech and voice cloning software.
• GPT Pilot – An open-source tool that uses AI to help developers write scalable applications from scratch by creating all necessary files.
• Magic – An AI coworker designed to function as a software engineer on your team, capable of completing complex coding tasks.
• Durable – An AI website builder that generates a complete business website with copy, images, and a contact form in seconds.
• Veed – An online video editor that uses AI to automate and simplify complex editing tasks like subtitling, transcription, and removing background noise.
• Grammarly – A writing assistant that now incorporates generative AI to help you compose, ideate, and rewrite content effectively.
• Superhuman – A premium email client that uses AI to help you triage your inbox, summarize threads, and draft replies faster.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform and collaborative outlining tool designed for managing team projects and workflows.
• ClickUp – A project management platform that integrates AI to automate tasks, generate summaries, and streamline workflows.
• AI Pencil – An iOS app that allows you to draw with AI using the Apple Pencil, transforming sketches into detailed images.
• Tolstoy – An interactive video platform that helps businesses with sales, marketing, and support by creating engaging, choose-your-own-path video experiences.
• Diffusion-based retrieval augmented generation – A research project showcasing a method that combines diffusion models with retrieval for more accurate and detailed image generation.
• Cognito – An online form builder that has integrated AI to help users create forms and analyze submission data more efficiently.
• Windfall – A data and AI platform that helps organizations identify and engage affluent donors and customers.
• Qlik Staige – A set of AI capabilities within the Qlik platform to help businesses build, deploy, and manage custom AI models for data analytics.

Sponsors:

• Polymathic – A service that helps founders leverage their proprietary data to create AI-powered products.
• LMNT – An electrolyte drink mix designed to provide essential minerals without sugar.
• Vultr – A cloud computing platform offering powerful GPUs at a fraction of the cost of major hyperscalers.
• Intel – The Intel vPro platform is built for business, offering comprehensive security, manageability, and pro-grade performance.
• Notion – A connected workspace for wikis, docs, and projects that now includes integrated AI features.
• RunPod – A platform providing serverless GPU solutions for deploying AI models with autoscaling and pay-per-second billing.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that allows you to buy and sell shares in multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Picasso.