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 unveils ‘Apple Intelligence’ to bring AI across its devices – Apple announced its new personal intelligence system, “Apple Intelligence,” which will be deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia to power features like enhanced writing tools, image creation, and a more capable Siri.
• Apple to integrate ChatGPT across its platforms – Apple is partnering with OpenAI to integrate ChatGPT into experiences within iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, allowing Siri to tap into ChatGPT’s expertise when needed.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Elon Musk called Apple’s OpenAI integration an “unacceptable security violation” and threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies if the technology is integrated at the operating system level.
• Luma Labs releases Dream Machine, a new text-to-video model – AI video startup Luma Labs launched Dream Machine, a publicly available model that can generate high-quality, 5-second video clips from text prompts and images.
• Stability AI releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – Stability AI launched Stable Diffusion 3 Medium, its most advanced text-to-image model yet, which is compact enough to run on consumer PCs and excels at typography and photorealism.
• Mistral AI raises $640M at a $6B valuation – French AI startup Mistral AI confirmed a new $640 million funding round, tripling its valuation in less than a year to nearly $6 billion.
• Perplexity launches ‘Pages’ to turn search queries into articles – AI search engine Perplexity introduced a new feature called Pages that can create comprehensive, well-structured articles, guides, and reports from a single prompt.
• Oracle partners with Google and OpenAI as AI demand soars – Oracle’s stock surged after it announced new cloud infrastructure deals with Google and OpenAI, driven by massive demand for training AI models.
• Inflection AI appoints new CEO amidst enterprise pivot – Following the departure of its co-founders to Microsoft, Inflection AI has named former Google and Mozilla exec Sean White as its new CEO to lead its focus on enterprise AI solutions.
• Character.AI now lets you create custom voices for chatbots – The popular chatbot platform Character.AI has introduced a feature that allows users to create a unique voice for their AI characters by recording a 10-second audio sample.
• Sakana AI uses ‘evolutionary’ approach to merge AI models – Tokyo-based startup Sakana AI has pioneered a method using evolutionary algorithms to automatically combine different open-source models, creating novel and more capable new models.
• MIT researchers develop AI to predict stock market patterns – A new AI model from MIT can learn the intricate patterns of stock returns directly from data, potentially leading to more accurate financial predictions and trading strategies.
• Raspberry Pi shares jump 38% in London IPO – Shares of Raspberry Pi, the maker of low-cost single-board computers, surged in their stock market debut as the company leans into the industrial and AI edge computing markets.
• Researchers repurpose AlphaFold 3 to design novel proteins – A new study demonstrates that Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold 3 can be adapted to generate entirely new proteins from scratch, a significant breakthrough for drug discovery and bioengineering.
• Klarna’s AI assistant is doing the job of 700 people – Fintech company Klarna reports its AI assistant now manages two-thirds of customer service chats, handling 2.3 million conversations and achieving customer satisfaction scores on par with human agents.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave offers $1.6B to acquire Bitcoin miner – In a bid to secure more power for its data centers, AI-focused cloud provider CoreWeave has made an offer to acquire Bitcoin mining firm Core Scientific.
• GenAI could generate up to $110B annually for the pharma industry – A new McKinsey report estimates that generative AI could revolutionize the life sciences sector by accelerating drug discovery and development, creating between $60 billion and $110 billion in annual value.
• YouTube adds labels for AI-generated content – YouTube has started rolling out labels to inform viewers when realistic content they are watching was created using generative AI tools.
• U.S. government pilots AI for faster wildfire detection – The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is testing new AI systems that analyze satellite imagery to spot early signs of wildfires much faster than human analysis.
• New AI-powered prosthetic hand creates a human-like grasp – Researchers at the University of Michigan developed a new prosthetic hand that uses AI to interpret muscle signals, enabling more intuitive and natural grasping motions.
• New York passes bill to restrict ‘addictive’ algorithms for kids – The New York state legislature passed a bill that would require social media companies to get parental consent before showing algorithmic feeds to users under 18.
• EU regulator chides TikTok over ‘addictive design’ – The European Commission has criticized TikTok for potential breaches of online content rules, citing its “addictive design” and lack of robust age verification measures.
• Debate grows over whether Section 230 should protect AI companies – Legal experts and lawmakers are increasingly questioning whether Section 230, the law that shields platforms from liability for user content, should extend to generative AI systems.

Trending AI Tools:

• Devin – The world’s first fully autonomous AI software engineer that can handle entire development projects from a single prompt.
• Suno – An AI music and song generator that creates realistic, full-length songs with vocals from text prompts.
• Viggle – A video generation AI that creates videos of people dancing by applying a motion prompt to a single character photo.
• VLOGGER – A Google AI model that can generate realistic, controllable videos of people talking and moving from a single photo and an audio clip.
• UFO – A new UI-focused agent from Microsoft that can understand user requests to operate applications on the Windows OS.
• Perplexity – An AI-powered answer engine that provides direct, conversational answers to questions with cited sources.
• Galileo Luna – A suite of small, commercially-usable open-source language models designed for specific tasks like text-to-SQL generation.
• Mind-Vid – A tool that automatically converts text-based content like articles and newsletters into engaging short videos.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator renowned for creating high-quality, artistic, and stylized images from text prompts.
• Krea – An AI-powered design tool that offers features like real-time image generation, upscaling, and enhancement.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and meeting scheduling.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A no-code platform that allows users to create and train their own specialized AI chatbots on their own data.
• Jam – A browser extension for developers that creates detailed bug reports, including screen recordings and technical logs, in one click.
• Open-Sora-Plan – An open-source project that provides a roadmap and resources to replicate high-quality, text-to-video AI models like Sora.
• Promptly – A collaborative platform that helps teams manage, version, and test their AI prompts to improve model performance.
• Luminary – An open-source foundation model specifically designed for creating AI agents that can function as software engineers.
• Agenta – An open-source platform for developers to evaluate, experiment with, and deploy large language models.
• Cognito – An AI feature within Cognito Forms that helps users generate and refine questions for online forms.
• Lepton – An AI platform designed for developers to efficiently run and scale AI applications and models.

Sponsors:

• DeepLearning.AI – Offers short courses on generative AI for various professional roles, taught by experts from leading companies.
• FourthBrain – Provides a guide to AI product management to help individuals lead the development of AI-powered products.
• Abridge – An AI company focused on automating clinical documentation to reduce physician burnout, and is currently hiring engineers.
• Latitude – A platform that helps teams collaborate and build AI applications.
• Lepton – An efficient platform designed for building and scaling AI applications.
• Steamship – A platform for building and hosting AI agents without worrying about boilerplate code or infrastructure.
• Brilliant – An interactive learning platform that helps you build skills in math, data science, and computer science fundamentals.
• Guidde – An AI-powered tool that helps businesses create video documentation and how-to guides in seconds.
• Notion – A workspace tool that integrates AI to help you write faster, think bigger, and augment creativity.
• Montreal AI Ethics Institute – Offers a hands-on AI ethics bootcamp to help professionals build safe, responsible, and trustworthy AI systems.
• MusashiAI – A joint venture that develops and deploys AI-powered robots for industrial manufacturing and logistics.
• Radix – A research and engineering company focused on advancing machine learning for biological applications.
• Kaiwu Capital – An investment firm that backs Chinese and global technology companies at the forefront of artificial intelligence.
• Amplify Partners – An early-stage venture capital firm that invests in technical founders building the next generation of infrastructure and developer tools.
• AE Studio – A development, data science, and design studio that works with companies to build and improve their AI and tech products.