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:

• Apple announced Apple Intelligence – its new personal AI system integrated into iOS 18, which includes an overhaul of Siri, new writing and image generation tools, and a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its devices.
• Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies – over security concerns if Apple integrates OpenAI’s technology at the operating system level.
• OpenAI will use Oracle’s cloud infrastructure – to expand its computing capacity, supplementing its primary partnership with Microsoft Azure.
• French AI startup Mistral AI raised $640 million – in a new funding round, valuing the company at $6 billion.
• Former OpenAI board members wrote an op-ed on why they fired Sam Altman – detailing what they describe as a long-standing pattern of manipulative behavior from the CEO that led to his temporary ouster.
• Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – its most advanced and compact text-to-image model yet, offering photorealistic quality and strong typography skills.
• AI search engine Perplexity raised an additional $62.7 million – from investors including Jeff Bezos, valuing the company at over $1 billion.
• Figure AI deployed its humanoid robots at a BMW manufacturing facility – to begin identifying and automating factory tasks in South Carolina.
• Runway unveiled Gen-3 Alpha – its next-generation video model, promising significant improvements in speed, control, and the creation of highly detailed, human-like characters.
• OpenAI added two new members to its board of directors – retired U.S. Army General Paul M. Nakasone, a former head of the NSA, and Sarah Friar, CEO of Nextdoor.
• Adobe faced backlash over new terms of service – that appeared to grant the company broad access to user content for training AI, forcing the company to issue a clarification.
• Google’s AI Overviews went viral for advising users to put glue on pizza – a “tip” it sourced from a satirical comment on Reddit.
• UK-based self-driving startup Wayve raised $1.05 billion – in a Series C round led by SoftBank to advance its “embodied AI” technology for autonomous vehicles.
• Microsoft conducted layoffs in its Azure and mixed reality divisions – impacting hundreds of employees, including those on the HoloLens 2 headset team.
• Google DeepMind and Liverpool FC created TacticAI – an AI system that provides expert advice on football tactics like optimizing corner kicks.
• Shares of Raspberry Pi jumped over 30% – in its London Stock Exchange debut.
• A new AI-powered system enabled a paralyzed man to walk again – by creating a digital bridge between the brain and spinal cord.
• Researchers discovered a new antibiotic using a deep learning model – capable of killing a dangerous, drug-resistant superbug known as MRSA.
• SEC Chair Gary Gensler warned AI could spark a financial crisis – due to widespread reliance on a few foundational models in the financial sector.
• Character.AI is in funding talks that could value it at over $5 billion – with investors reportedly including Google.
• Midjourney is alpha testing a new website – that allows users to generate images without Discord and features a social feed.
• Andrej Karpathy analyzed Apple’s on-device AI strategy – calling it a privacy-focused “operating system for AI” that acts as a broker for user context.
• Chinese AI chip companies are designing less powerful processors – to ensure they can still be manufactured by TSMC without violating U.S. sanctions.
• Microsoft Research unveiled VASA-1 – an AI model that can generate lifelike talking faces from a single image and an audio file.
• CoreWeave offered to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific for over $1 billion – to expand its infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Cerebras Systems and G42 are building a new AI supercomputer – named Condor Galaxy 3, which will expand their network to 64 exaFLOPs of computing power.
• Twelve Labs raised $50 million – to advance its AI models that can understand the context within videos for powerful search.
• Intel revealed its new Lunar Lake processors – for next-generation AI PCs, promising major performance-per-watt improvements.
• YouTube is testing server-side ad injection – a technique that could make ads much harder for ad-blockers to bypass.
• New York State passed legislation to protect kids on social media – requiring parental consent before showing algorithmic feeds to users under 18.
• Baseten raised $40 million in Series B funding – a startup providing infrastructure to help companies build and deploy AI applications.
• Inflection released an API for its Inflection-2.5 model – allowing developers to integrate its powerful language capabilities into their own applications.
• Scale AI announced SEAL – a new platform to help enterprises test, evaluate, and safely deploy customized AI models.
• AssemblyAI released Universal-1 – a state-of-the-art multilingual speech recognition model trained on 12.5 million hours of audio.
• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics released Reachy 2 – an open-source humanoid robot designed to advance real-world AI research.
• NVIDIA’s BioNeMo platform is being used to design cancer-fighting viruses – helping startup Genelux potentially accelerate drug discovery.
• HR tech company iCIMS acquired HiredScore – a startup that uses AI to improve efficiency and fairness in corporate recruiting.
• The Godot game engine is adding an AI-assisted script editing extension – which includes code completion from cloud-based models.
• Runway introduced a ‘Multi-Motion Brush’ tool – that allows users to paint over specific regions in a video to control their movement independently.

Trending AI Tools:

• ChatGPT – A powerful and multimodal AI assistant from OpenAI that can process text, audio, and images.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text prompts and still images.
• Luma AI Dream Machine – An AI model that creates high-quality, realistic video clips from text descriptions and images.
• Claude 3 – A family of AI models from Anthropic focused on helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness in conversation and content generation.
• Suno – An AI music and song generation tool that creates original music, complete with vocals, from a text prompt.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing high-quality, artistic, and stylized visuals from text prompts.
• Krea AI – An AI-powered design tool that offers real-time image generation, upscaling, and video creation features.
• GitHub Copilot – An AI pair programmer that suggests code and entire functions in real-time directly within your code editor.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, cited answers to questions by synthesizing information from the web.
• HeyGen – An AI video generation platform that creates studio-quality videos with realistic AI avatars and voice cloning.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI-powered platform for creators that offers advanced video generation and editing tools.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator for creating realistic, human-like speech and voice clones in a wide variety of languages and accents.
• Viggle – An AI tool for character-to-video generation that transfers motion from a source video to a still character image.
• Udio – An AI music creation tool that generates high-quality, full-length tracks in various styles from simple text prompts.
• Genspark – An AI-powered search engine that generates customized summary pages called “Sparkpages” to answer complex queries.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically turns long-form videos into short, viral-ready clips for social media platforms.
• Phind – An AI-powered search engine and pair programmer designed to help developers solve complex problems with instant, cited answers.
• Character.AI – A platform that lets you create and interact with AI-powered chatbots based on fictional characters or real personalities.
• Julius AI – An AI data analyst that allows you to analyze and visualize data from spreadsheets and files by asking questions in plain English.
• Consensus – An AI-powered search engine for finding and synthesizing insights directly from scientific research papers.
• Brevian – A no-code platform for building custom AI agents that can automate complex business workflows and tasks.
• Tome – An AI-powered presentation and storytelling tool that helps generate entire narratives, layouts, and visuals from a single prompt.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool for creating engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text instructions.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI assistant that joins your meetings to automatically generate transcripts, summaries, and analyze conversations.
• Gling – An AI tool that automatically edits raw video footage for YouTubers by cutting silences, removing bad takes, and generating b-roll.
• Fathom – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at creating images that include coherent and legible text.
• Splash – An AI music generation tool integrated with Roblox that allows users to create and perform original music in the game.
• Leonardo AI – A creative platform for generating high-quality game assets, concept art, and other visual content using AI.
• Audiobox – A research foundation model from Meta for generating audio, including speech, sound effects, and music, from text prompts.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that can instantly create notes and answer questions from any document, video, or audio file.
• Syllaby – An AI tool that helps video creators generate content ideas and video scripts that are optimized for social media trends.
• tldv – An AI meeting recorder that transcribes and summarizes calls on Google Meet and Zoom, making them easy to review and share.
• Kaiber – An AI video generation tool that transforms your images and text into dynamic videos with various artistic styles.
• Veed.io – An online video editing suite that uses AI to simplify tasks like transcription, subtitling, background noise removal, and content creation.
• Finalle.ai – An AI-powered financial analysis platform that helps investment professionals automate research and data analysis tasks.
• Heights – An all-in-one platform that uses AI to help creators build and sell online courses, communities, and digital products.
• Guidde – An AI-powered platform for creating instant video documentation and step-by-step how-to guides for software.
• Lexisort – An AI-powered contract review tool that helps legal professionals analyze, summarize, and manage documents more efficiently.
• Magnific – An AI-powered image upscaler and enhancer that can reimagine and add intricate details to your images.
• Notion – An all-in-one workspace that integrates notes, docs, and project management with AI-powered assistance for summarizing and writing.
• Magic Studio – A suite of AI-powered tools for automatically creating and editing images, such as removing backgrounds or generating pictures from text.
• Sanebox – An AI-powered tool that automatically filters and organizes your email inbox to prioritize important messages and eliminate distractions.
• Recap – An AI-powered meeting summarizer that provides transcripts, notes, and action items from your calls on platforms like Slack and Zoom.

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