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 has formed a new Safety and Security Committee – led by CEO Sam Altman, to oversee the safety of its AI models.
• OpenAI has paused its ‘Sky’ voice in ChatGPT – after Scarlett Johansson stated it sounded “eerily similar” to her own, despite her declining an offer to voice the assistant.
• Perplexity AI launched “Pages” – a new feature that allows users to create and share comprehensive, well-cited articles and reports on any topic from a single prompt.
• Former OpenAI employees have launched Safe Intelligence – a new company dedicated to AI safety and research.
• Nvidia announced a record $26 billion in quarterly revenue – driven by massive demand for its AI chips, and revealed plans for a 10-for-1 stock split.
• Microsoft’s new “Recall” feature is facing scrutiny over major privacy and security concerns – as the Copilot+ PC tool takes screenshots of your activity every few seconds.
• Google’s new AI Overviews in search are being criticized – for providing bizarre and dangerous answers, such as suggesting users eat rocks or put glue on pizza.
• Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has raised $6 billion – in a Series B funding round to bring its first products to market and build advanced infrastructure.
• Mistral AI’s latest model, Mistral Large, is now available within the Snowflake Data Cloud – enabling enterprises to build custom AI applications with their own data.
• Apple is reportedly finalizing a deal with OpenAI – to integrate ChatGPT features into the upcoming iOS 18.
• Details have been released about Google’s text-to-video model Veo – which is positioned as a competitor to OpenAI’s Sora and can generate high-quality, minute-long 1080p videos.
• Section has raised $10 million – a startup that automates the management of Kubernetes infrastructure for AI applications.
• Adept is reportedly in talks to raise over $100M – an AI startup developing an AI agent to automate software tasks, with Microsoft among the potential investors.
• AI startup Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer – known for its troubled AI Pin, the company is looking for a price between $750 million and $1 billion.
• Fine-tuning for GPT-4o is now available – accessible in the Fine-Tuning API and fine-tuning manager, along with new management features.
• Jan Leike has joined Anthropic – OpenAI’s former head of superalignment has officially joined the rival AI lab.
• Google Maps is launching new AI-powered features – including immersive and augmented reality tools to help users explore and navigate places.
• A new study reveals AI models can be manipulated with “sleeper agents” – showing that models like GPT-4 can be trained to produce specific outputs when triggered.
• Researchers are using generative AI to rapidly discover new materials – one AI tool designed 381,000 new stable materials in just 80 hours.
• ElevenLabs introduced an AI sound effects generator – allowing users to create audio from a simple text prompt.
• Midjourney has introduced a new /random command – allowing users in its Alpha version to generate images from random stylistic prompts.
• A new text-to-video model called Kling rivals OpenAI’s Sora – developed by Chinese company Kuaishou.
• CoreWeave has made a $1.6 billion all-cash offer to acquire Core Scientific – an AI-focused cloud provider looking to buy the crypto miner.
• The Japanese government is investing $740 million in a new supercomputer – aiming to help domestic companies catch up in the global generative AI race.
• A new research paper presents RAPTOR – a novel tree-based retrieval method that improves how AI models retrieve and use information.
• A new tool called “Dora” can generate a personal website – by talking to an AI in natural language.
• An in-depth article explores how Google’s search engine lost its way – detailing how it became less reliable due to an over-reliance on AI and advertising.
• This article provides a comprehensive overview of how to build an AI-powered search engine – detailing the key components and technologies involved.
• ChatGPT can now integrate with Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive – allowing users to directly access and analyze files within the chatbot.
• A developer has created a project that allows a custom GPT to fully control a web browser – enabling the automation of tasks.
• This guide provides 50 actionable tips for teams – to effectively implement and leverage AI tools in their workflows.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Labs Dream Machine – A new text-to-video generation model known for its high-quality, smooth motion and character consistency.
• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s flagship multimodal model that processes text, audio, image, and video to generate versatile outputs.
• Kling – A new text-to-video model from the creators of TikTok, capable of generating 1080p video up to two minutes long.
• Krea AI – An AI tool that generates high-quality images and videos from text prompts in real time.
• Viggle AI – A free AI tool that lets you animate any character with a reference video motion.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates realistic music and vocals from text prompts.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool that creates full songs with lyrics and vocals from a simple prompt.
• Pika – An idea-to-video platform that brings your creative vision to life with AI video generation and editing tools.
• Runway – A comprehensive AI video editing and generation suite for creators.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at rendering coherent and readable text within images.
• ElevenLabs – A leading platform for generating realistic, human-like AI voices and text-to-speech.
• Midjourney – A prominent AI image generator known for its artistic and stylized outputs, accessible via Discord.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered conversational search engine that provides direct, sourced answers to questions.
• VASA-1 – A framework from Microsoft Research for generating lifelike talking faces from a single static image and an audio clip.
• Claude 3 – A family of powerful large language models from Anthropic known for their strong performance and focus on safety.
• Poe – An AI chatbot platform by Quora that allows users to interact with various models like GPT-4o and Claude 3.
• Tldraw – A collaborative digital whiteboard that uses AI to turn sketches and doodles into functional code and user interfaces.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically turns long videos into short, viral clips for social media.
• FigJam AI – An AI-powered tool within Figma’s online whiteboard that helps generate, summarize, and sort ideas collaboratively.
• Leonardo AI – A generative AI platform for creating high-quality images, textures, and art assets for various projects.
• Arc Search – An iOS app from The Browser Company that combines a browser, search engine, and AI to find and summarize information for you.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes your voice conversations.
• Scribe – An AI tool that automatically creates step-by-step guides and process documentation as you work.
• HeyGen – A platform for creating studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Mindgrasp – An AI learning assistant that instantly creates accurate notes and answers questions from any document, video, or audio file.
• Character.AI – A platform that lets you create and interact with AI-powered chatbots based on fictional or real characters.
• Durable – An AI-powered website builder that generates an entire website with images and copy in seconds.
• Magic Studio – A suite of AI-powered tools for creating and editing images, including background removal and object erasing.
• Taskade – An AI-powered productivity platform that combines outlining, task management, and collaborative editing in one tool.
• Notion AI – An AI assistant integrated into the Notion workspace to help you write, brainstorm, edit, and summarize.
• Recast – An AI-powered tool that summarizes podcast episodes and articles, delivering key takeaways in a concise format.
• Beautiful.ai – An AI-powered presentation maker that designs your slides for you.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that generates polished presentations, documents, and webpages from simple text prompts.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A platform that allows users to fine-tune open-source models like Llama 3 with their own data.
• Play.ht 2.0 – An AI voice generator that creates ultra-realistic text-to-speech voices.
• DeepL – An advanced AI translation tool known for its accuracy and nuanced language understanding.
• Haiper – An AI video generation tool focused on creating high-quality content from text prompts.
• GummySearch – A tool that helps you find your customers on Reddit for audience research and lead generation.
• Hints – An AI app that connects to your calendar to automatically find and link relevant documents for your meetings.
• Shortform – An AI-powered tool that creates detailed summaries of non-fiction books.
• Looka – An AI-powered platform to design a logo and build a brand you love.

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