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 introduces Apple Intelligence – Apple announced its new personal AI system integrated deeply into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, focusing on privacy and on-device processing.
• OpenAI and Apple announce partnership – Apple is integrating OpenAI’s ChatGPT into Siri and its system-wide Writing Tools, allowing users to access its capabilities for free without an account.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Elon Musk stated he will ban Apple devices at his companies if Apple integrates OpenAI at the operating system level, citing major security concerns.
• Luma Labs unveils Dream Machine – Luma Labs launched Dream Machine, a new publicly available AI model that can generate high-quality, 5-second videos from text prompts and images.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, a more compact and efficient text-to-image model that excels at photorealism, detail, and typography.
• Perplexity launches Pages – Perplexity AI introduced Pages, a new feature that converts user prompts or search queries into comprehensive, customizable, and shareable articles.
• French AI startup ‘H’ raises $220M seed round – The Paris-based AI startup ‘H’ (formerly Holistic AI) raised a massive $220 million seed round from investors like Bernard Arnault and Amazon to build foundational action models.
• AI could help detect breast cancer years earlier – A new study suggests an AI tool can predict a person’s risk of breast cancer up to five years earlier than current methods by analyzing mammograms.
• China’s top OpenAI rival Zhipu AI gets new funds at $3B value – Leading Chinese AI startup Zhipu AI secured fresh funding from state-backed and private investors at an estimated valuation of $3 billion.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire Core Scientific for over $1 billion – AI cloud provider CoreWeave made an unsolicited all-cash offer to acquire bitcoin miner Core Scientific, highlighting the growing demand for data center infrastructure.
• OpenAI hires new CFO and CPO – OpenAI appointed former Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar as its first Chief Financial Officer and former Planet Labs President Kevin Weil as its Chief Product Officer.
• Microsoft delays controversial Recall feature, makes it opt-in – Following significant backlash from security experts, Microsoft delayed the launch of its “Recall” screenshot feature and announced it will be opt-in only.
• Intel claims its Gaudi 3 AI chip is cheaper and faster than Nvidia’s H100 – Intel announced that its Gaudi 3 AI accelerator provides better price-performance than Nvidia’s H100 GPU for training and inferencing on certain large language models.
• Raspberry Pi shares jump in London IPO – Raspberry Pi, the maker of popular low-cost computers, saw its shares surge over 30% after raising $166 million in its London Stock Exchange initial public offering.
• Character.ai is reportedly exploring NSFW chatbots – A report indicates that AI chatbot startup Character.ai is considering relaxing its not-safe-for-work content filters to better compete with rivals.
• Google DeepMind finds LLMs can develop internal world models – In a simple grid-world setting, Google DeepMind researchers discovered that large language models can learn a map of their environment, suggesting the formation of an internal world model.
• Mistral AI nears $600M in funding at a $6B valuation – French AI company Mistral AI is reportedly close to raising $600 million in a new funding round that would triple its valuation to $6 billion.
• The Browser Company raises $50M, pivots to building an “internet computer” – The company behind the Arc browser announced a new $50 million funding round and a shift in focus toward building a new kind of operating system for the internet.
• Glean raises $200M for its enterprise AI search platform – AI-powered enterprise search startup Glean announced it has raised $200 million in a Series D funding round, bringing its valuation to $2.2 billion.
• Spotify launches an in-house agency that uses AI to produce ads – Spotify is launching a new creative agency, “Quickly,” that will use generative AI tools to help brands produce audio and video advertisements.
• Google DeepMind announces Gen-3 Alpha text-to-video model – Google introduced Gen-3 Alpha, a new high-quality video generation model from its Imagen family, which currently powers its Veo product.
• YouTube experiments with AI-generated comment summaries – YouTube is testing a new AI feature for Premium members that organizes large comment sections into easy-to-digest themes and topics.
• Suno releases V3.5 for AI music generation – The AI music creation platform Suno has launched its new v3.5 model, featuring improved audio quality and faster song generation.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace enters technical preview – GitHub opened the technical preview for Copilot Workspace, a new AI-native environment designed to help developers brainstorm, plan, build, and test software.

Trending AI Tools:

• Pika – A platform for generating and editing videos with AI, which recently launched its 1.0 version with new features.
• Luma Labs Dream Machine – A new and highly capable text-to-video model available for free public use, producing high-quality video clips from text prompts.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its advanced and reliable text rendering capabilities.
• Kling – A powerful text-to-video model from Kuaishou capable of generating high-quality, 1080p footage up to two minutes long.
• Suno – An AI music and song generation tool that creates original music, including vocals, from text prompts.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with source citations.
• Claude – A conversational AI assistant from Anthropic, recently updated with the highly capable Sonnet 3.5 model.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI model for a wide range of text generation, summarization, and coding tasks.
• Viggle – A generative video AI that can animate any static character image according to a reference motion video.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation platform for creators, which recently announced its Gen-3 Alpha model.
• Invideo AI – An AI video creation tool that turns your ideas or existing content into publish-ready videos with voiceovers and music.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator that creates high-quality, artistic images from text prompts via Discord.
• Pincel – An AI tool that lets you create unique stock photos with consistent characters by using your own face as a model.
• ElevenLabs – An AI platform for creating realistic text-to-speech audio and cloning voices for various applications.
• Leonardo AI – A generative AI platform for creating textures, assets, and concept art for creative projects.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating professional videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that creates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text notes.
• FigJam AI – An AI tool within Figma’s online whiteboard that helps with brainstorming, summarizing, and visualizing ideas.
• Durable – An AI website builder that lets you generate a complete business website with images and copy in seconds.
• Magic Hour – An AI-powered tool that helps you brainstorm, create, and schedule social media content.
• Gencraft – An AI art, photo, and video generator designed for easy creative content production.
• Decoherence – An AI video generator that allows you to create music videos and abstract visuals from text prompts.
• Vispunk – An AI platform that generates consistent characters for use in images, comics, and storyboards.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models designed to be safe for commercial use and integrated into its software suite.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that creates notes and answers questions from any document, video, or recording.
• ThinkDiffusion – A cloud platform offering easy access to Stable Diffusion models without the need for complex local setup.
• Diagram – A collection of AI design tools, including one that generates editable UI designs from text prompts.
• Phind – An AI search engine and pair programmer designed specifically to help developers with technical questions.
• Layer AI – An AI tool that helps game developers generate an infinite number of art assets that match their specific art style.
• PromoteAI – A tool that uses AI to automate personalized outreach and follow-ups on LinkedIn.
• Gleen – An enterprise-grade generative AI platform for creating accurate and secure customer support chatbots.

Sponsors:

• Masterworks – Masterworks is an investment platform allowing individuals to invest in shares of blue-chip art from renowned artists like Banksy and Picasso.
• Brave – Brave is a web browser with a built-in, privacy-respecting AI assistant named Leo that can summarize pages, answer questions, and generate content.
• The Prompt Index – The Prompt Index is a directory featuring a collection of the top prompts for various AI tools.
• AE Studio – AE Studio is a development, data science, and design agency that partners with companies to build and ship custom AI solutions with a guaranteed positive ROI.
• Castmagic – Castmagic is an AI tool that transforms audio files into a variety of content formats, such as show notes, summaries, and social posts, with a single click.