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 delays AI features in Europe, citing DMA regulations – Apple is withholding its new Apple Intelligence, iPhone Mirroring, and SharePlay Screen Sharing features from EU users this year due to regulatory uncertainty with the Digital Markets Act.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn search into shareable articles – AI search engine Perplexity has released a new feature called Pages that allows users to curate and convert their search threads into comprehensive, visually appealing, and shareable web pages.
• OpenAI hires new CFO and Chief Product Officer – OpenAI has appointed Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former President of Planet Labs, as its new Chief Product Officer.
• Amazon in talks to invest in Databricks rival Matbrick – Amazon is reportedly in discussions to invest in Matbrick, a new AI data-management startup founded by former top engineers from Databricks, aiming to challenge its competitor.
• Legal AI startup Harvey lays off 20% of its staff – Harvey, an AI startup for law firms valued at $715 million, has laid off around 20% of its workforce, primarily impacting its go-to-market division.
• Pika Labs introduces AI-powered sound effects for video generation – AI video generation platform Pika Labs has launched a new “Sound Effects” feature that allows users to automatically add relevant sounds to their videos by typing in prompts.
• AI-writing detectors are biased against non-native English speakers, study finds – A new study published in Nature reveals that popular AI detection tools are significantly more likely to incorrectly flag text written by non-native English speakers as AI-generated.
• Humane, creator of the Ai Pin, is seeking a buyer – The AI hardware startup Humane is reportedly looking to sell itself for a price between $750 million and $1 billion following poor reviews of its flagship Ai Pin.
• Twelve Labs secures $10M from SAP for video understanding AI – AI video understanding startup Twelve Labs has raised a $10 million strategic investment from enterprise software giant SAP to enhance its multimodal AI models for business applications.
• Microsoft pulls its controversial Recall AI feature from broad public release – Following significant privacy and security backlash, Microsoft has decided to make its AI-powered Recall feature an opt-in preview for Windows Insiders instead of shipping it by default.
• xAI plans to build the world’s largest supercomputer in Memphis – Elon Musk’s xAI is partnering with the city of Memphis, Tennessee, to build a massive “Gigafactory of Compute” that is poised to become the world’s most powerful supercomputer.
• Midjourney pauses free trials again due to “extraordinary” abuse – AI image generator Midjourney has once again disabled its free trial program, citing “extraordinary demand and trial abuse” as viral deepfakes created with the service spread online.
• Mistral is reportedly in talks to raise $1B at an $8B valuation – French AI startup Mistral is in advanced discussions for a new funding round that could raise up to $1 billion and value the OpenAI rival at approximately $8 billion.
• Google DeepMind introduces V2A technology to generate audio for videos – Google DeepMind has unveiled its video-to-audio (V2A) technology, which can create synchronized soundtracks, sound effects, and dialogue based on the visual content of a video.
• TikTok begins testing AI-generated search results – TikTok is experimenting with integrating AI-generated content into its search function, providing users with quick, summarized answers within the app instead of just linking to videos.
• Google adds ‘Help me write’ AI tool directly into Chrome browser – A new Gemini-powered “Help me write” feature is being integrated into Google Chrome, allowing users to get AI assistance for writing or refining text on any website.
• YouTube expands access to its Dream Track AI music tool – YouTube is making its AI music creation tool, Dream Track, available to more creators, enabling them to produce short songs featuring the AI-generated voices of artists like Charlie Puth and T-Pain.
• Suno launches dedicated mobile apps for its AI music generator – Popular AI music creation service Suno has released its first official mobile apps for both iOS and Android, making its text-to-song platform more accessible to users.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave is seeking up to $20B in debt financing – CoreWeave, a key cloud infrastructure provider for AI companies, is reportedly in talks with private creditors to secure up to $20 billion in debt to fund its rapid expansion.
• Poolside AI raises over $400M to build code generation models – Poolside, a startup focused on creating AI models that generate software code, has closed a new funding round of over $400 million led by EQT Ventures and Bain Capital Ventures.
• Scale AI launches Donovan, a new AI platform for the defense sector – Data-labeling giant Scale AI has unveiled Donovan, an AI platform designed to help defense and intelligence agencies analyze vast amounts of data and make faster decisions.
• SEC closes its investigation into Ethereum – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has concluded its investigation into “Ethereum 2.0,” deciding not to pursue legal action claiming that sales of ETH constitute securities transactions.
• LaminiAI releases a new model that tops open-source reasoning benchmarks – LaminiAI has launched a new open-source model that it claims outperforms all other models of its size on a key reasoning benchmark, even rivaling some closed-source models.
• Wayve’s self-driving AI learns by watching London’s chaotic traffic – UK-based autonomous vehicle startup Wayve is training its AI models to navigate complex urban environments by having them observe and learn from real-world driving on London’s streets.
• Nvidia and CQuant partner to model financial risks of climate change – Nvidia is collaborating with risk management firm CQuant to use its Earth-2 digital twin platform to simulate and predict the financial impact of extreme weather events.
• Altera develops AI chip that analyzes sound to predict machine failures – Altera, formerly part of Intel, is creating a specialized AI chip that interprets sound and vibrations to provide predictive maintenance for industrial machinery.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – A new, publicly available text-to-video generation model capable of creating high-quality, realistic video clips from text prompts.
• Claude 3.5 Sonnet – Anthropic’s latest AI model, which is faster, more cost-effective, and smarter than its predecessors, excelling at complex reasoning and coding tasks.
• Perplexity Pages – A feature that allows users to convert their search queries or prompts into comprehensive, shareable, and beautifully formatted web articles.
• Krea AI – A creative suite of AI tools that includes real-time image and video generation, upscaling, and other enhancements for artists and designers.
• Viggle – An AI video tool that animates a static character image using a motion reference video, providing consistent character control.
• Pika – A platform for generating and editing high-quality videos from text prompts, images, or other videos.
• Runway – An advanced AI video editing and generation platform offering a suite of tools for filmmakers and content creators.
• Notion AI – An integrated AI assistant within the Notion workspace that can summarize documents, draft content, and automate tasks.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI model for answering questions, writing content, and performing a wide range of language-based tasks.
• Godmode – An AI agent platform that allows you to connect multiple AI models to automate complex, multi-step tasks.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace – An AI-native developer environment for brainstorming, planning, building, testing, and running code from natural language prompts.
• HeyGen – A video platform that uses AI to create realistic talking avatars for marketing, training, and corporate communications.
• Magnific AI – An advanced AI image upscaler and enhancer that adds new details to create high-resolution, photorealistic results.
• Sudo Lang – A new open-source programming language specifically designed to streamline the development of AI applications and agents.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that joins your calls to automatically record, transcribe, summarize, and analyze conversations.
• Captions – A mobile app that uses AI to automatically generate animated subtitles, remove background noise, and improve eye contact in videos.
• ElevenLabs – A voice AI research and deployment company known for its realistic text-to-speech and voice cloning technology.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator renowned for its exceptional ability to render coherent and accurate text within generated images.
• Phind – An AI-powered search engine designed for developers that provides direct answers and code examples for technical questions.
• Dust – A platform that helps teams build and deploy powerful, company-specific AI assistants connected to their internal data and tools.
• Gamma – An AI tool that generates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts, automating the design process.
• Suno – An AI platform that generates original songs, complete with vocals and instrumentation, from a simple text prompt describing the style and lyrics.
• Veed.io – An online video editing suite that incorporates AI features like automatic subtitling, translation, and audio cleanup.
• Leonardo AI – A creative platform for generating unique art, illustrations, and game assets using a fine-tuned suite of AI models.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates high-quality, full-length tracks with vocals based on user prompts.
• Brev – A tool that enables developers to quickly create and deploy AI-powered APIs without managing complex infrastructure.
• Tome – An AI-powered tool for creating dynamic and interactive presentations and narratives from a simple text prompt.
• Poe by Quora – An app that allows users to interact with and compare a variety of different AI chatbots, like Claude and GPT-4, in one place.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator, accessed via Discord, known for producing highly artistic and stylized visuals.
• Glean – An enterprise AI search platform that connects to all of a company’s apps to help employees find information and insights quickly.
• Snowflake Arctic – A family of enterprise-grade, open-source language models from Snowflake designed for efficiency and performance.
• Replicate – A cloud platform that makes it easy for developers to run and fine-tune open-source machine learning models via an API.
• Hugging Face – A central community hub and platform offering a vast collection of open-source AI models, datasets, and tools.
• Microsoft Copilot – Microsoft’s AI assistant integrated across its products like Windows, Office 365, and Bing to enhance productivity.
• Google Gemini – Google’s family of powerful, multimodal AI models that can understand and process text, images, audio, and video.

Sponsors:

• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that partners with companies to build and implement custom AI solutions.
• Brilliant – An interactive learning platform that helps you build skills in math, science, and computer science through bite-sized, problem-solving-based lessons.
• Masterworks – A platform that allows you to invest in shares of multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Notion – An all-in-one workspace with integrated AI to help you write faster, brainstorm ideas, and summarize documents without switching between tools.
• Guidde – An AI-powered platform that helps you create stunning video documentation and how-to guides in seconds.
• Mindstream Pro – A premium subscription offering exclusive content, in-depth reports, and advanced AI tools and tutorials.
• Secureframe – A platform that uses AI to automate the process of achieving and maintaining compliance certifications like SOC 2 and ISO 27001.
• Vultr – A cloud provider offering on-demand access to high-performance NVIDIA GPUs like the H100 and GH200 for training and deploying AI models.
• Veed – An online video editing platform with AI tools that simplifies the process of creating professional videos for marketing and social media.