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:

• Scarlett Johansson says she is ‘shocked, angered’ over new OpenAI voice that sounds ‘eerily similar’ to her – Scarlett Johansson stated that OpenAI’s new voice assistant, “Sky,” sounds eerily similar to her own, despite her having previously declined an offer from CEO Sam Altman to voice the system.
• Microsoft introduces Team Copilot, an AI meeting facilitator and project manager – Microsoft’s Team Copilot acts as a meeting facilitator in Microsoft Teams, managing agendas, taking notes, and tracking action items for the group.
• Google’s AI search answers are getting dumber – Google’s new AI Overviews in search are being criticized for providing bizarre and inaccurate answers, such as advising users to put glue on pizza.
• Microsoft’s new Recall feature will screenshot everything you do on your PC – Microsoft announced a new AI feature for Windows called “Recall” that takes periodic screenshots of your screen to create a searchable timeline of your activity.
• Microsoft introduces Phi-3-vision, a small multimodal model that can run locally on a phone – Microsoft released Phi-3-vision, a new small, multimodal AI model designed to run on-device for tasks involving text and image understanding.
• How to turn off Google’s AI Overviews in search – A guide shows how to switch from Google’s new AI-generated search results back to the traditional web tab with only blue links.
• Holistic AI raises $220M for its AI governance and safety platform – The Paris-based AI startup H (formerly Holistic AI) raised a $220 million seed round to build a new generation of foundational action models.
• Perplexity launches Pages, a new feature to create and share AI-generated articles – Perplexity’s new ‘Pages’ feature allows users to convert search queries into comprehensive, customizable articles with citations, which can then be shared.
• Section acquires Google’s Firebase Hosting team and tooling – Edge computing platform Section has acquired the team and technology behind Google’s Firebase Hosting to expand its services.
• Llama 3.1 is currently training with a potential 2025 release – A Meta executive revealed that the next version of its Llama model, Llama 3.1, is already in the training phase.
• Apple and OpenAI partnership for iOS 18 is reportedly a done deal – Reports suggest Apple and OpenAI have finalized a deal to integrate ChatGPT features into the upcoming iOS 18.
• Unsloth now supports fine-tuning Mistral and Gemma models – The Unsloth library, known for accelerating Llama 3 fine-tuning, has added support for Mistral, Mixtral, CodeLlama, Gemma, and TinyLlama models.
• Microsoft’s new Copilot+ PCs are a new class of Windows PCs built for AI – Microsoft and its partners are launching a new category of “Copilot+ PCs” that feature powerful new silicon capable of 40+ trillion operations per second to run AI tasks locally.
• Google’s Responsible AI principles, six years on – Google reflects on the six-year anniversary of its AI Principles amid recent controversies, discussing their impact on product development.
• Meta’s AI glasses will soon be able to identify objects and translate languages – Meta is rolling out early access to new multimodal AI features for its Ray-Ban smart glasses in the US and Canada, enabling them to understand both voice commands and what the user sees.
• Stack Overflow and OpenAI announce strategic partnership – OpenAI will integrate Stack Overflow content into ChatGPT, providing developers with validated technical knowledge directly within their workflow.
• Microsoft announces new AMD-powered virtual machines for AI workloads – Microsoft is launching new Azure virtual machines powered by AMD’s MI300X AI accelerators, offering a competitive alternative to NVIDIA GPUs.
• The Story of Us – This essay argues that Generative AI could reshape our collective “Story of Us” by altering narratives around money, nations, and religion, potentially leading to a societal shift of a magnitude not seen since the Enlightenment.
• Functionary V2: A leap in large language model tool use – Researchers have released Functionary V2, a family of models that excels at tool usage by improving function calling capabilities.
• Viggle: A new AI model for character-consistent video generation – Viggle is a new video generation model that allows users to create animated videos with consistent characters by using text prompts and images.
• Diagram raises $3.3M to build the ‘Canva for developers’ – Diagram, a startup creating a platform to help developers design UI/UX components with AI, has raised $3.3 million in funding.
• Devika, an open-source alternative to Devin – Devika is a new open-source project that aims to replicate the capabilities of the AI software engineer agent, Devin.
• SeaLLM-7B-v2.5: A new open-source LLM for Southeast Asia – Researchers have released an updated version of SeaLLM, an open-source model designed to better understand the languages and cultures of Southeast Asia.
• AI could take your job. So what? – This article argues that while AI will displace many jobs, it will also create new ones and that historical precedents show we should focus on adaptation rather than panic.
• How the AI industry created a new climate crisis – The rapid growth of AI is causing a massive surge in electricity and water consumption, creating significant new pressures on the climate.
• Adept, a pioneering AI agent startup, is seeking a sale – AI agent startup Adept is reportedly looking for a buyer as it faces challenges in shipping products and securing new funding.
• How a tiny AI startup became a key provider of synthetic data – Definitive Intelligence has emerged as a crucial player in the AI ecosystem by generating high-quality synthetic data used to train large language models.
• Hugging Face launches a robotics-focused community – Hugging Face is expanding its platform to include a dedicated community and tools for robotics, aiming to foster open-source collaboration in the field.
• The first global law for AI gets final approval from EU countries – The European Union has given final approval to its landmark AI Act, creating the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence.
• How to find a job in AI (if you’re not a researcher or engineer) – This guide offers practical advice for individuals with non-technical backgrounds who want to transition into careers in the AI industry.

Trending AI Tools:

• Pika – An AI-powered platform for generating and editing high-quality videos from text and images.
• Devin – An autonomous AI software engineer that can handle entire development projects from a single prompt.
• Claude 3 – A family of next-generation AI models from Anthropic (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus) offering industry-leading performance and vision capabilities.
• Luma AI Dream Machine – A new text-to-video model that generates high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates realistic songs, including vocals and instruments, from a simple text prompt.
• Midjourney – A renowned AI image generator known for producing highly artistic and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Runway – An advanced AI video creation suite that includes text-to-video, video-to-video, and other creative tools.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at creating images with coherent and accurate text.
• Kling – A new text-to-video model from Kuaishou capable of generating up to 2-minute-long videos in high resolution with complex motion.
• Magnific – An AI-powered tool for upscaling, enhancing, and reimagining images with incredible detail.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive AI platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and art assets for creative projects.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace – An AI-native development environment that helps developers brainstorm, plan, build, test, and run code from natural language.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, sourced answers to questions.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that generates high-quality songs complete with vocals and instruments from text prompts.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating professional videos with realistic avatars, voice cloning, and translation.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice synthesis and cloning platform for creating lifelike, emotionally-rich speech in any voice and style.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s flagship multimodal model that natively processes text, audio, and image inputs and outputs.
• Gemini 1.5 – Google’s next-generation multimodal model featuring a massive context window for processing vast amounts of information.
• Grok – An AI chatbot from xAI, integrated with X (formerly Twitter), designed to answer questions with wit and access to real-time information.
• Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model capable of generating highly realistic and imaginative minute-long video scenes from text prompts.
• DALL-E 3 – OpenAI’s advanced image generation model, integrated into ChatGPT, known for its ability to follow complex prompts accurately.
• Llama 3 – Meta’s latest generation of open-source large language models, designed to be powerful and widely accessible for developers.
• Stable Diffusion 3 – The latest image generation model from Stability AI, featuring significant improvements in typography and prompt adherence.
• Notion AI – A suite of AI features integrated into the Notion workspace to help with writing, summarizing, and brainstorming.
• Viggle – A new AI model that animates static characters with realistic motion based on a text prompt or a reference video.
• Galileo AI – An AI tool that instantly generates editable UI designs for apps and websites from a simple text description.
• FigJam AI – An AI-powered feature within Figma’s whiteboard tool that helps generate, summarize, and organize ideas visually.
• Character.AI – A platform where you can create and interact with AI-powered characters, each with distinct personalities.
• Opus Clip – An AI-powered tool that automatically repurposes long videos into short, viral clips for social media.
• Phind – An AI-powered search engine designed specifically for developers that provides code examples and technical answers.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that can instantly create notes and answer questions from any document, video, or audio file.
• Consensus – An AI-powered search engine that extracts and summarizes findings directly from scientific research papers.
• Gamma – An AI tool that quickly creates engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from a simple text prompt.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling and presentation tool that helps create compelling narratives and visuals from prompts.
• Krea – An AI-powered design tool that offers real-time image generation and enhancement capabilities.
• Mixo – An AI-powered website builder that generates an entire website, including copy and images, from a brief description of an idea.
• Durable – An AI platform that builds a professional website with copy, images, and a contact form in seconds.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that provides search and answers across all of a company’s apps and internal knowledge.
• Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models, integrated into Photoshop and other Creative Cloud apps.
• Poe by Quora – A platform that lets users interact with a variety of AI chatbots from companies like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.
• Co-pilot for Microsoft 365 – Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated into its 365 apps to help with writing, data analysis, and presentations.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that makes editing as simple as working with a text document using AI.
• Synthesia – A leading AI video generation platform that creates professional videos with AI avatars and voices in minutes.
• Murf.ai – A versatile text-to-speech software with a library of realistic AI voices for various creative and professional projects.
• Superhuman – A premium email client that uses AI to help you sort, summarize, and reply to emails faster.
• Elicit – An AI research assistant that helps automate literature reviews by finding relevant papers and summarizing key takeaways.
• Clarity – An AI tool that records, transcribes, and summarizes your online calls, providing notes and action items.
• Recap – An AI tool that automatically generates concise and accurate summaries of online meetings.
• Hugging Face – A platform and community providing tools, models, and datasets for building and deploying machine learning applications.
• LangChain – A framework for developing applications powered by large language models, connecting them to other data sources and APIs.
• Vercel – A frontend cloud platform that provides tools and infrastructure for building and scaling web experiences with AI.
• Together AI – A cloud platform that provides fast inference for running and fine-tuning open-source large language models.

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• BrowserCat – BrowserCat offers an API that lets you build web scraping and browser automation with just a few lines of code.
• Mind-Rocket – Mind-Rocket is an AI-powered brainstorming platform that helps entrepreneurs, marketers, and product managers find their next business idea.
• Netlify – Netlify is a serverless platform that lets you build, deploy, and scale modern web projects, including AI apps.
• Twelve Labs – Twelve Labs offers a powerful multimodal AI model that understands video for building applications with semantic search, classification, and summarization.
• AE Studio – AE Studio is a development, data science, and design studio that helps you build custom AI solutions.
• Masterworks – Masterworks is a platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar artworks from artists like Banksy and Picasso.
• The Rundown AI – The Rundown AI is a free daily newsletter that keeps you updated on the latest developments in AI.
• Notion – Notion is an all-in-one workspace that now includes Notion AI to help you write faster, think bigger, and boost creativity.
• ClickUp – ClickUp is a productivity platform with an AI assistant, ClickUp Brain, to help summarize, generate ideas, and automate tasks.
• VAST Data – VAST Data provides a data platform for AI and deep learning that offers scalable performance for data-intensive workloads.
• Epson – Epson offers Supertank printers that feature large, refillable ink tanks to reduce costs and waste compared to traditional cartridges.