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:

• Google scrambles to fix AI Overviews after viral errors – Google is manually disabling its new AI Overviews feature for certain searches after it produced viral and dangerously incorrect answers, such as advising users to put glue on pizza.
• OpenAI forms a new safety committee after executive departures – OpenAI has formed a new Safety and Security Committee led by board members to oversee the safety of its models, following the dissolution of its previous “superalignment” team.
• xAI officially announces $6B in funding – Elon Musk’s AI startup, xAI, has officially announced a $6 billion Series B funding round to build advanced infrastructure and bring its first products to market.
• Perplexity Pages turns research into articles – AI search engine Perplexity has launched “Pages,” a new feature that can generate and publish comprehensive articles, presentations, or reports from a single prompt.
• SAG-AFTRA backs Scarlett Johansson in OpenAI dispute – The actors’ union SAG-AFTRA has issued a statement supporting Scarlett Johansson against OpenAI, demanding transparency and advocating for legislation to protect voice and likeness rights.
• Microsoft unveils new AI tools for small business – Microsoft has introduced new AI tools tailored for small and medium-sized businesses, including a standalone Copilot Pro subscription and other business-focused features.
• Adept secures strategic funding from Microsoft and Nvidia – AI startup Adept, which is building an AI agent to automate software tasks, has secured strategic funding from Microsoft and Nvidia.
• AI can pinpoint the origin of hard-to-diagnose cancers – Researchers have developed an AI model that can accurately determine the origin of cancerous tumors with high precision, which could improve patient diagnosis and treatment.
• X rolls out its Grok AI chatbot to Premium users in Europe and the UK – X is rolling out its AI chatbot Grok, including its trending news summaries feature, to all X Premium subscribers in the UK and Europe.
• OpenAI CEO tells shareholders the company is considering becoming a for-profit corporation – OpenAI CEO Sam Altman reportedly told some shareholders that the company is considering changing its governance structure to a for-profit corporation, which would end its nonprofit control.
• Magic claims it has created the first AI software engineer – A startup called Magic has demonstrated what it claims is the world’s first AI software engineer, capable of understanding user requests and autonomously completing entire software projects.
• Amazon Is Supercharging Alexa Search With AI – Amazon is reportedly supercharging its search engine with a new AI technology, codenamed ‘Project PI’, to provide more direct, conversational answers to user queries.
• Apple is spending millions of dollars a day on AI – Apple is reportedly spending millions of dollars per day training its own AI models and has acquired dozens of AI startups to catch up with competitors.
• Mistral AI in Talks to Raise Funds at $6 Billion Valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI is reportedly in talks to raise new funding at a $6 billion valuation, tripling its value in less than six months.
• ChatGPT can now browse your Google Drive files – ChatGPT Plus users can now connect their Google Drive and Microsoft OneDrive accounts to allow the chatbot to directly access and analyze their files.
• Meta trained an AI on 1.1 billion social media videos – Meta has trained a new AI model called “JASCO” on over 1.1 billion publicly available social media videos to improve its ability to generate audio for video content.
• Claude is now available in Europe – Anthropic has made its AI assistant Claude, including its web app, iOS app, and API, available to users and businesses across the European Union.
• TikTok Parent ByteDance Is Using U.S. Servers for AI Push – TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, is reportedly using servers in the U.S. to develop powerful new foundation models, indicating a significant push into generative AI.
• You can now preorder Microsoft’s new Copilot Plus PCs – Microsoft’s new line of “Copilot+ PCs,” featuring powerful new AI capabilities and ARM-based processors from companies like Dell, HP, and Samsung, are now available for preorder.
• Humane Is Looking for a Buyer for Its AI Pin Business – Humane, the startup behind the widely panned AI Pin, is reportedly looking for a buyer with an asking price between $750 million and $1 billion.
• Midjourney is testing a new website with social features – The popular AI image generator Midjourney is testing a new website design that includes social features for users to like, share, and organize their AI-generated images.
• An AI model that can detect sarcasm in social media text – A new AI model has been developed that can detect sarcasm in social media posts by analyzing the complex relationships between words.
• The Information’s 50 Most Promising Startups – The Information has released its second annual list of the 50 most promising startups, highlighting companies in AI, enterprise software, and other sectors.
• The State of Open Source LLMs, May 2024 – A new analysis explores the current landscape of open-source large language models, covering their performance, costs, and key players like Databricks and Snowflake.
• AI PCs won’t save the struggling PC market this year – A new report from Canalys suggests that the introduction of “AI PCs” is unlikely to significantly boost the struggling PC market this year.
• Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics are open-sourcing a humanoid robot – Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics are collaborating to open-source Reachy 2, a humanoid robot, making its software and hardware designs publicly available to advance robotics research.
• Reka Core is now on Azure – Reka’s highly capable multimodal model, Core, is now available for developers to build with through Microsoft’s Azure AI Model Catalog.
• The Most Important Papers from ICLR 2024 – A new guide summarizes the most impactful and interesting research papers presented at the recent International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR).
• Section launches enterprise-ready GenAI platform – Section has launched an enterprise-ready platform that allows businesses to run generative AI applications securely within their own cloud environments using a wide range of open-source models.
• How AI will transform the job market – A new analysis discusses the potential transformations AI will bring to the job market, highlighting both job displacement and creation.
• A guide to building a voice-based AI agent – A developer has released a comprehensive guide and boilerplate code for building a voice-based AI conversation agent using various AI services.

Trending AI Tools:

• GPT-4o – OpenAI’s new flagship model that is faster, cheaper, and has advanced multimodal capabilities for real-time conversational AI.
• Google Project Astra – Google’s vision for a universal AI agent that can understand and respond to the world in real-time through video and speech.
• Google Veo – Google’s most capable text-to-video generation model to date, creating high-quality, 1080p videos that can exceed a minute in length.
• Krea AI – A real-time AI tool for generating and enhancing images and videos with upscaling and other creative features.
• Google Imagen 3 – Google’s highest quality text-to-image model yet, with improved detail, photorealism, and a better understanding of natural language prompts.
• Suno – An AI tool that generates original songs, including lyrics and vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• Udio – An AI music generation tool for creating high-quality songs in various genres from text prompts.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that allows you to create studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Perplexity Pages – A new feature from Perplexity that turns research queries and media files into well-structured, shareable articles or reports.
• Viggle – A new AI video model that can understand physical motion and give users precise control over character movements in a video.
• Luma AI – A tool that can create cinematic 3D videos and scenes from a simple text prompt.
• OpenAI’s Mac app – A native desktop application that brings ChatGPT and GPT-4o directly to your macOS workflow.
• Pika – An AI tool that generates and edits videos from text and images.
• Runway – An AI video creation suite with advanced tools for generating and editing video content.
• ElevenLabs – An AI voice generator that creates realistic, human-like speech in various languages and accents.
• Fathom – An AI meeting assistant that records, transcribes, highlights, and summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation.
• Sudo Write – An AI-powered writing partner designed to help fiction authors brainstorm, write, and revise their stories.
• Hydra – An AI tool that can decompose any song into instrumental and vocal tracks, also known as stems.
• Recast – An app that uses AI to summarize podcasts into readable, short-form content.
• Cleanvoice AI – An AI tool that automatically edits podcast episodes by removing filler words, stuttering, and mouth sounds.
• Recast Studio – An AI-powered tool that repurposes long-form videos and podcasts into social-ready clips.
• Poe – A platform by Quora that allows you to access a wide variety of chatbots and AI models, including GPT-4o, in one place.
• Lindy – An AI agent that handles your calendar scheduling and email drafting.
• Flooding – An AI tool to generate hundreds of social media posts and replies to boost your engagement.
• Stack Overflow’s OverflowAPI – A suite of AI-powered tools, including an API and a VS Code extension, to integrate Stack Overflow’s knowledge base into developer workflows.
• Replicate – A platform to run and fine-tune open-source models with a cloud API without having to manage servers.
• Hugging Face – A platform for building, training, and deploying state-of-the-art models using open source code and technologies.
• Truss – An AI tool that analyzes sales calls to identify high-intent prospects and provide summaries.
• Ad-Lib – An AI tool that helps you write better ad copy for your campaigns.
• ExplainThis – An AI tool that provides clear and simple explanations for complex topics.
• Artifact – The AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders, which has now been acquired and its technology integrated into Yahoo News.
• Jukebox – An open-source neural net from OpenAI that generates music, including rudimentary singing, as raw audio in a variety of genres.

Sponsors:

• AI With Vibes – Provides over 300 battle-tested ChatGPT prompts to help users get better results from AI.
• CommandBar – Helps you build useful AI chatbots that are deeply connected to your product to answer user questions and troubleshoot issues.
• Marrs – An AI tool that transforms your script into a stunning presentation with visuals, layouts, and a professional voice-over in one click.
• DeepLearning.AI – Offers a free, beginner-friendly course to master Prompt Engineering and build applications with the OpenAI API.
• LlamaIndex – A data framework for building LLM applications that is hosting a virtual event on building and evaluating production-ready RAG apps.
• Scale AI – A data-centric, end-to-end platform that provides high-quality training data to manage the entire machine learning lifecycle.
• Notion – A connected workspace for notes, documents, wikis, and project management for teams and individuals.
• Klaviyo – An intelligent marketing automation platform for email, SMS, and more.
• KHealth – Provides an AI-powered primary care application for affordable and data-driven healthcare.