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:

• OpenAI announces GPT-4o – OpenAI launched GPT-4o, a new flagship model that is significantly faster, available for free, and features deeply integrated, real-time voice, vision, and text capabilities.
• Google announces major AI updates at I/O – At its I/O conference, Google unveiled Project Astra for real-time multimodal assistance, an expanded 2M token context window for Gemini 1.5 Pro, and new generative models like Veo for video and Imagen 3 for images.
• OpenAI partners with Color Health for AI in cancer care – OpenAI is working with Color Health to develop an AI copilot using GPT-4o to help doctors create personalized cancer screening and treatment plans for patients.
• xAI raises $6 billion in Series B funding – Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, secured $6 billion in a new funding round to build advanced infrastructure and bring its first products to market.
• Google rolls out AI Overviews to all US users – Google is integrating AI-generated summaries at the top of its search results for all users in the U.S., with plans for international expansion.
• Mistral releases Codestral, an open-weight code generation model – Mistral has launched Codestral, a 22B parameter model specialized in code generation that supports over 80 programming languages.
• Microsoft to deploy a secret OpenAI model for US intelligence – Microsoft is developing a powerful AI model for US intelligence agencies designed to run in a fully air-gapped, secure cloud environment disconnected from the internet.
• Scarlett Johansson claims OpenAI copied her voice for “Sky” – Actress Scarlett Johansson stated that OpenAI’s “Sky” voice assistant is “eerily similar” to her own, despite her previously declining an offer from Sam Altman to provide the voice.
• Humane warns AI Pin owners to stop using charging case due to fire risk – Humane has issued an urgent warning for customers to stop using the charge case for its AI Pin, citing a potential fire safety risk discovered with the battery.
• Apple is closing in on a deal with OpenAI for iPhone features – Apple is reportedly finalizing an agreement to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology into the upcoming iOS 18 for the iPhone.
• Nvidia’s quarterly revenue soars 262% on massive AI chip demand – Nvidia reported a massive surge in its first-quarter revenue, driven by unprecedented demand for its AI processors from cloud providers and enterprises.
• Google-backed study finds generative AI could threaten 30 million US jobs – A study supported by Google from the University of Pennsylvania suggests that advances in generative AI could impact up to 15% of all worker tasks in the U.S.
• U.S. House passes bill requiring AI disclosure in political ads – A bipartisan bill has passed in the U.S. House of Representatives that would mandate disclosures for the use of AI-generated content in political advertising.
• Perplexity AI is raising funds at a $3 billion valuation – The AI search startup Perplexity is reportedly in talks to raise over $250 million at a valuation that has tripled in just a few months to $3 billion.
• Viggle AI lets you make any character dance from a photo – A new free tool called Viggle allows users to generate videos by applying motion clips to a static character image, making it easy to create dancing animations.
• YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to bypass ad blockers – YouTube is experimenting with a new method that embeds ads directly into video streams on the server, making them much harder for ad-blocking software to detect and stop.
• Twelve Labs introduces Pegasus-1 for video understanding – Twelve Labs has released Pegasus-1, a new multimodal AI model that excels at understanding and answering complex questions about videos by integrating text, image, and audio data.
• Meta launches new AI tools for businesses on WhatsApp – Meta is rolling out new AI features to help businesses on WhatsApp answer common questions, create ads, and provide customer support more efficiently.
• Midjourney adds Style and Character Reference features to V6 – The image generation platform Midjourney has introduced new “Style Reference” and “Character Reference” functionalities, allowing for greater consistency in aesthetics and characters across multiple images.
• Pika Labs adds AI-powered sound effects to its video generator – The AI video creation tool Pika now features an integrated sound effects generator that can automatically add audio like explosions, music, or dialogue to user-created videos.
• Character.ai introduces voice conversations with AI companions – The popular AI chatbot platform Character.ai has launched a new feature that allows users to have realistic voice-to-voice conversations with its AI characters.
• EU countries give final approval to landmark AI Act – European Union member countries have given their final approval to the AI Act, establishing the world’s first comprehensive laws to govern the use of artificial intelligence.
• Study demonstrates Large Language Models can coordinate with each other – New research shows that different large language models can autonomously coordinate their actions to complete tasks more effectively, similar to human teamwork.
• Adept releases Fuyu-Heavy, a powerful multimodal model – AI research lab Adept has introduced Fuyu-Heavy, a new multimodal model designed to understand and interact with user interfaces by processing both text and images.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace enters technical preview – GitHub has launched a technical preview of Copilot Workspace, a new environment that uses AI to help developers go from an idea to a fully coded plan.
• DuckDuckGo AI Chat offers anonymous access to popular models – The privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo has launched a free AI Chat service that allows users to interact with models like GPT-3.5 and Claude 3 without creating an account.
• Reka launches Reka Core, a frontier-class multimodal model – AI startup Reka has released Reka Core, its most capable multimodal model which can process text, images, video, and audio, positioning it as a competitor to models from Google and OpenAI.
• Poe introduces multi-bot chat to combine AI model strengths – Quora’s AI platform Poe now allows users to query multiple chatbots within a single conversation, enabling them to leverage the distinct capabilities of different models for a single task.
• DeepMind details a new approach to Reinforcement Learning – Google DeepMind has published research on a new unified framework for reinforcement learning that could accelerate the training of more capable and general AI agents.
• Stable Diffusion benchmarks compare Intel, AMD, and Nvidia GPUs – A new performance comparison shows how the latest graphics cards from Nvidia, AMD, and Intel stack up when running the popular AI image generation model Stable Diffusion.
• Amazon Bedrock adds Cohere’s latest Command R+ and R models – AWS has made Cohere’s newest enterprise-focused models, Command R and Command R+, available to customers through its Amazon Bedrock managed AI service.
• Section acquires Argonaut to expand its cloud platform – Section, a company that helps deploy applications across multiple cloud providers, has acquired Argonaut to enhance its platform’s automation and infrastructure management capabilities.
• Wired interviews Perplexity AI founders on their mission to challenge Google – The founders of Perplexity AI discuss their strategy and challenges in building an “answer engine” to compete directly with Google’s dominance in web search.

Trending AI Tools:

• ElevenLabs – A premier text-to-speech and voice cloning platform for creating realistic AI-generated audio.
• Midjourney – A leading AI image generator that creates high-quality, artistic images from text prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI for a wide range of text-based tasks, from writing to coding.
• Runway – An advanced AI video creation and editing suite with text-to-video and video-to-video capabilities.
• Pika – An AI-powered platform for generating and editing videos from text, images, or other videos.
• HeyGen – A video platform that uses AI to create realistic talking avatars and translate speech for video content.
• Luma AI – A tool for creating cinematic 3D videos and interactive scenes from text prompts.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered search engine that provides direct, conversational answers with source citations.
• Suno – An AI model that generates original songs, complete with vocals and instrumentation, from a simple text prompt.
• Viggle – An AI video generation tool that allows you to control a character’s movements by mimicking a reference video.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator known for its superior ability to accurately render text within images.
• Krea – A creative suite offering real-time AI image and video generation for artists and designers.
• Character.AI – A platform for creating and interacting with a wide variety of AI-powered chatbots and characters.
• Gamma – An AI tool that automatically creates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI video tool that automatically repurposes long videos into viral short clips.
• Magnific – An AI-powered tool designed to upscale, enhance, and add detail to your images.
• Julius AI – An AI data analyst that allows you to analyze and visualize data from spreadsheets and files using natural language.
• FigJam AI – An AI-powered online whiteboard that helps teams generate, summarize, and organize ideas.
• Motion – An intelligent tool that uses AI to manage your calendar, projects, and tasks to create the optimal daily schedule.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that lets you edit media as easily as editing a text document.
• Gling – An AI tool for video creators that automatically finds and cuts silences and bad takes from raw footage.
• Phind – An AI search engine and pair programmer specifically designed to answer technical questions for developers.
• SudoWrite – An AI-powered writing partner designed to help fiction authors brainstorm, write, and revise their stories.
• Claude – Anthropic’s family of large language models, known for their focus on AI safety and helpfulness.
• Leonardo – A comprehensive creative suite for generating and editing visual assets using a variety of AI models.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that lets you interact with a wide range of different AI chatbots, including models from OpenAI and Anthropic.
• Superhuman – A premium, AI-enhanced email client designed to help you get through your inbox faster.
• Tome – An AI-powered storytelling format that helps you generate and design compelling presentations and narratives.
• Hugging Face – A central platform and community for accessing, building, and deploying open-source machine learning models.
• Replicate – A cloud platform that makes it easy for developers to run and fine-tune open-source AI models via API.
• Vidyo.ai – An AI platform that automatically creates social-media-ready short clips from your long-form videos.
• Munch – An AI tool that analyzes long videos and extracts the most engaging clips for use on social media platforms.
• Klap – An AI tool that turns long videos from sources like YouTube into a series of short, viral clips.
• Magic Hour – An AI-powered video editing studio that helps you find the most compelling parts of your videos to create engaging content.
• Vizard – An AI tool designed to help marketers and creators turn webinars and long videos into ready-to-post social media clips.
• Submagic – An AI tool that generates trendy, animated captions with emojis for short-form videos to boost engagement.
• Captions – An AI-powered mobile app and creative studio for easily editing, captioning, and enhancing videos.
• Shortmake – A tool that uses AI to create viral short videos from longer content with a single click.
• Dumme – An AI tool that automatically creates short, publish-ready clips from any video or audio source.
• Video.ai – A content repurposing platform that turns long-form audio and video into short clips for social media.
• Recast Studio – A tool that repurposes long audio and video into various content formats like clips, blog posts, and social media updates.
• Headliner – A tool for creating and sharing videos to promote podcasts, audiobooks, and other audio content.
• Veed – A comprehensive online video editing suite that includes a range of AI-powered tools for creators.
• Riverside – A high-quality remote recording platform for podcasts and video interviews that uses AI to streamline editing.
• Adobe Premiere Pro – A professional video editing software that now integrates generative AI features for enhanced editing workflows.
• CapCut – A popular, free, all-in-one video editor with AI features designed for creating social media content.
• Beautiful.ai – A presentation maker that uses AI to automatically design your slides, ensuring a professional look.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that unifies tasks, notes, and team chat in a single workspace.
• Together AI – A cloud platform that provides fast inference for leading open-source generative AI models.
• Civitai – A popular online hub for sharing, discovering, and downloading AI art models, primarily for Stable Diffusion.

Sponsors:

• Incogni – A service that helps you take back control of your personal data by automatically contacting data brokers to remove it.
• Masterworks – A platform for investing in blue-chip art by artists like Banksy and Basquiat.
• Intercom – Provides Fin, an AI chatbot for customer support teams that can resolve 50% of questions instantly.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that builds products for startups and enterprises.
• Brilliant – An interactive learning platform for building skills in math, science, and computer science through problem-solving.
• The Rundown AI – A free daily newsletter that covers the latest developments in AI.
• Atomic AI – A Text-to-Speech API for generating ultra-realistic AI voices in real-time.
• CommandBar – A tool that helps you add an AI chatbot to your app in minutes to answer user questions and take actions.