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 – a new personal AI system deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that includes writing tools, image generation, and a more capable Siri powered in part by ChatGPT.
• Luma Labs released Dream Machine – a new text-to-video model that allows users to generate high-quality, five-second video clips from text prompts and is now publicly available.
• Elon Musk dropped his lawsuit against OpenAI – which had accused the company and its CEO Sam Altman of abandoning their original nonprofit mission in pursuit of profits.
• Elon Musk threatened to ban Apple devices at his companies – citing security risks following Apple’s announcement of an operating system-level integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
• AI search engine Perplexity launched a new feature called Pages – which instantly converts search queries into comprehensive, shareable articles, complete with citations.
• Mistral AI raised $640 million – in a new funding round led by General Catalyst, valuing the French OpenAI competitor at approximately $6 billion.
• OpenAI appointed former Nextdoor CEO Sarah Friar as its first Chief Financial Officer – and former Planet Labs President Kevin Weil as its new Chief Product Officer.
• Figure AI announced a commercial agreement with BMW – to deploy its humanoid robots in the automaker’s US manufacturing facility for automotive production tasks.
• ElevenLabs launched a new Text to Sound Effects model – allowing creators to generate sound effects, short instrumental tracks, and soundscapes from a text description.
• Stability AI released Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – its most advanced text-to-image model yet, which is smaller in size to run on standard consumer PCs and laptops.
• Runway unveiled Gen-3 Alpha – its next-generation video model, which promises major improvements in generation speed, control, and creating more consistent and detailed human characters.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave is in advanced talks to acquire competitor Lambda Labs – for over $1 billion in a move that would further consolidate the AI infrastructure market.
• Character.AI introduced several new features – including voice-to-voice chat capabilities, group chat for users and multiple AI characters, and a new, more advanced underlying model.
• Amazon Web Services announced it is committing another $230 million to support generative AI startups – providing them with AWS credits, mentorship, and industry expertise.
• Google researchers developed a new tool – that can accurately distinguish between human speech and AI-generated deepfake audio.
• The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating an internal stock sale – led by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman from 2023 over whether investors were misled.
• Chinese AI company Zhipu AI is reportedly raising a new funding round – that will value it at approximately $4.1 billion.
• Harvey, an AI startup providing legal tools, has raised an $80 million Series B funding round – co-led by Kleiner Perkins and Elad Gil, valuing the company at $715 million.
• Raspberry Pi saw its shares surge in its London Stock Exchange debut – after raising $202 million in its initial public offering.
• Microsoft researchers developed a new method called “model shaping” – to fine-tune small AI models like Phi-3-mini for specific tasks without compromising their broad knowledge.
• Notion introduced new AI-powered features – that allow users to instantly clean up, edit, and populate database entries using prompts.
• The Humane AI Pin is reportedly being resold for less than half its original price – on secondary markets like eBay, following poor reviews and a turbulent launch.
• A new study from Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, found that AI hiring tools show significant racial bias – especially from companies like OpenAI and Microsoft.
• Adobe announced new Firefly-powered features for Photoshop – that allow users to adjust image backgrounds, generate color variations, and create designs from a text prompt.
• Snowflake launched new features for its Cortex AI service – including tools that let users with limited technical skills build and use AI chatbots and search apps.
• The US Surgeon General is calling on Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms – to alert parents that they may be damaging to adolescents’ mental health.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – An AI model that generates high-quality, realistic, and surreal short videos from text and image prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s conversational AI that can write, code, brainstorm, and answer questions on a vast range of topics.
• Perplexity – An AI search engine that delivers direct, sourced answers to user queries, positioning itself as a “conversational knowledge engine.”
• Midjourney – An AI image generator known for creating highly detailed and artistic images from text prompts, accessible via Discord.
• Suno – An AI music creation tool that generates original songs, including lyrics, instruments, and vocals, from simple text prompts.
• Claude – A conversational AI from Anthropic recognized for its large context window, strong reasoning capabilities, and emphasis on safety.
• Runway – A comprehensive creative suite with AI-powered tools for video generation, editing, and special effects.
• Pika – An AI platform for generating and editing videos from text, images, or existing video clips, offering a wide range of creative controls.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice platform that provides realistic text-to-speech, voice cloning, and dubbing capabilities.
• Kling – A text-to-video model by Chinese developer Kuaishou, capable of generating high-resolution, long-duration videos with complex motion.
• Krea – An AI-powered design tool that enables real-time generation and upscaling of images and patterns for creative projects.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows users to create studio-quality videos with AI avatars, voice cloning, and automatic translation.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator that excels at creating images with coherent and stylized text integrated into them.
• Udio – An AI music generator that creates high-quality, full-length songs with vocals and instrumentation based on user prompts.
• Google Gemini – Google’s family of multimodal AI models that can understand and process text, code, images, and video.
• Morpheus-1 – A neurotech headband that uses AI to detect when you’re in REM sleep to help induce and stabilize lucid dreams.
• Magic Hour – An AI video editing tool that allows users to direct and edit footage by giving natural language commands.
• Viggle AI – A free AI video tool that animates a still character image using a motion reference video, effectively transferring the dance or movement.
• Pinokio – A desktop browser that allows you to install, run, and programmatically control any AI application on your computer with one click.
• Final Frame – An AI video generator that specializes in creating story-driven scenes with consistent characters.
• Gling – An AI tool for video creators that automatically edits footage by finding and removing silences, bad takes, and other disfluencies.
• Recast – An AI app that summarizes any online article into a concise, human-sounding audio conversation.
• Opus Clip – An AI tool that automatically repurposes long-form videos into engaging, shareable short clips for social media.
• Scribe – A tool that automatically documents your processes and creates step-by-step visual guides as you work.
• AI Storyboarder – A tool that generates complete storyboards, including scripts and images, from a single text prompt.
• Consensus – An AI-powered search engine designed to find and synthesize answers directly from scientific research papers.
• Vizcom – An AI design tool that quickly transforms hand-drawn sketches into photorealistic product renders.
• Tana – An all-in-one workspace tool that organizes notes, tasks, and knowledge using a structured, AI-enhanced graph-based system.
• Splash – An AI-powered music creation platform integrated into the Roblox gaming universe, allowing users to create and perform music.
• Fireflies.ai – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, and summarizes your calls, integrating with major conferencing platforms.
• Descript – An all-in-one audio and video editor that allows you to edit media as easily as editing a text document.
• Guidde – A platform for creating instant, AI-generated video documentation and how-to guides for teams and customers.
• Tome – An AI-powered presentation tool that helps users generate entire narratives, presentations, and documents from a single prompt.
• Leonardo AI – A creative platform for generating high-quality images, textures, and other visual assets for gaming and artistic projects.
• Sudowrite – An AI writing partner specifically built for fiction authors to help with brainstorming, drafting, and revising their stories.

Sponsors:

• Guidepoint – A service that connects clients with vetted subject matter experts from their global professional network for consultations.
• The AI Conference, SF – A conference in San Francisco focused on exploring the latest advancements and practical applications of artificial intelligence.
• AE Studio – A development, data science and design studio that works with companies to build and implement AI solutions.
• Vanna AI – An open-source Python-based SQL agent that allows you to ask questions in natural language and get SQL queries in return.
• Superhuman – A job board specializing in connecting top talent with roles in the AI industry.
• Hypotenuse AI – An AI content generation platform that is currently hiring a Machine Learning Engineer.
• Lindera – A company using AI for mobility analysis in healthcare, currently hiring a (Senior) Full Stack Developer.
• Ema – A company building a universal AI employee and is hiring a Software Engineer in AI/ML.
• Incogni – A service that contacts data brokers on your behalf to remove your personal information from their databases.
• newFound – An AI-powered recruitment platform that connects top talent with innovative companies.
• Klaviyo – A marketing automation platform that is hiring a Senior Machine Learning Engineer for its Applied AI team.
• Baseten – A platform for building and deploying machine learning models, currently hiring a Senior Software Engineer.
• Rewind – A company building a personalized AI powered by everything you’ve seen, said, or heard, and is currently hiring a Founding AI Engineer.
• Beehiiv – An email newsletter platform that helps creators build and monetize their audience.
• Scale AI – An AI company providing high-quality training data for AI applications, currently hiring a Member of Technical Staff.
• Notion – A connected workspace for notes, docs, and project management, hiring a Founding Engineer for Notion AI.
• Hugging Face – A platform hosting AI models and datasets, hiring a Senior Software Engineer for ML Compilers.
• Webflow – A no-code website builder that is currently hiring a Senior Software Engineer for its AI Platform.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that searches across all company apps, currently hiring a GenAI Software Engineer.
• Runway – An applied AI research company building creative tools for art and entertainment, currently hiring a Research Scientist.
• Instadeep – An enterprise AI company that builds decision-making systems, currently hiring a Staff/Senior Machine Learning Engineer.
• EvenUp – A company that uses AI to draft demand packages for personal injury law firms, currently hiring a Staff Prompt Engineer.
• Twelve Labs – A company building multimodal foundation models for video understanding, currently hiring a Research Scientist.
• Replicate – A platform for running and fine-tuning open-source AI models in the cloud, currently hiring a Software Engineer.
• Vectara – A developer-first GenAI platform for building conversational search applications, currently hiring a GenAI Software Engineer.