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 forms new safety committee to oversee AI models – OpenAI has formed a new Safety and Security Committee, led by board members and CEO Sam Altman, to make recommendations on safety and security decisions for its projects and operations.
• Perplexity launches Pages to turn prompts into shareable articles – AI search engine Perplexity has launched Pages, a new feature that allows users to generate, customize, and share visually structured and comprehensive articles on any topic from a single prompt.
• Microsoft announces Copilot+ PCs and new AI features at Build conference – At its annual Build conference, Microsoft unveiled a new category of “Copilot+ PCs” with advanced AI capabilities, real-time translation, and deeper integration of OpenAI’s GPT-4o.
• Elon Musk’s xAI raises $6 billion in Series B funding – Elon Musk’s AI company, xAI, has raised $6 billion to build advanced infrastructure, accelerate research and development, and bring its first products, including the Grok chatbot, to market.
• OpenAI pauses ‘Sky’ ChatGPT voice after Scarlett Johansson comparison – OpenAI has paused the use of its ‘Sky’ voice for ChatGPT after actress Scarlett Johansson claimed it was “eerily similar” to her own, though the company states it was not an imitation.
• Klarna’s AI assistant now handles two-thirds of customer service chats – Klarna’s AI assistant is managing 2.3 million conversations, equivalent to 700 full-time agents, leading to a $40 million projected improvement in profits.
• Google’s AI Overviews generate bizarre and incorrect answers – Google’s new AI Overviews in its search results are being criticized for providing strange and sometimes dangerous answers, such as suggesting adding glue to pizza or eating rocks.
• Former OpenAI researchers launch Safe Superintelligence Inc. (SSI) – Jan Leike and Daniel Gross, former leaders of OpenAI’s superalignment team, have started a new company focused exclusively on developing safe superintelligence.
• AI startup Humane is reportedly seeking a buyer for $750M-$1B – Following poor reviews of its flagship AI Pin, startup Humane is reportedly exploring a sale of the company.
• Mistral AI is reportedly close to raising $600M at a $6B valuation – Paris-based AI lab Mistral AI is nearing a new funding deal that would triple its valuation in less than six months.
• AI startup Adept reportedly secures $100M in new funding – Adept, an AI startup building a universal AI teammate that can perform tasks on a computer, has reportedly secured $100 million in new funding from Microsoft and Nvidia.
• Luma Labs unveils ‘Dream Machine’, a new text-to-video AI model – Luma Labs has released Dream Machine, a new, publicly available AI model for generating high-quality, realistic videos from text prompts and images.
• NVIDIA reports record $26 billion revenue in Q1, up 262% year-over-year – Driven by demand for its data center and AI chips, NVIDIA announced record quarterly revenue and a 10-for-1 forward stock split.
• Apple reportedly closing in on deal with OpenAI for iOS 18 – Apple is reportedly finalizing an agreement with OpenAI to incorporate ChatGPT technology into the iPhone’s next operating system, iOS 18.
• LinkedIn launches new AI-powered tools for job seekers – LinkedIn is rolling out a suite of new AI features to help job seekers quickly assess their fit for a role and get advice on how to improve their application materials.
• Character.AI launches Character Voice feature – The popular AI platform Character.AI has introduced a new voice feature, allowing users to engage in real-time voice conversations with its diverse range of AI characters.
• Meta introduces Chameleon, a multimodal model that natively processes images and text – Meta has developed Chameleon, a new family of models capable of understanding and generating both images and text simultaneously, unlike models that process them separately.
• Microsoft’s new ‘Recall’ feature for Windows faces privacy backlash – A new Windows feature called Recall, which constantly takes screenshots of a user’s activity to create a searchable timeline, is raising significant privacy and security concerns among experts.
• YouTube is testing server-side ad injection to combat ad-blockers – YouTube is experimenting with injecting ads directly into the video stream on the server side, making them much more difficult for ad-blocking software to detect and skip.
• Stack Overflow partners with OpenAI to bring its technical knowledge to ChatGPT – Stack Overflow is partnering with OpenAI to integrate its knowledge base into ChatGPT, aiming to provide more accurate and reliable technical information to developers.
• The EU gives final approval to the landmark AI Act – The European Union has formally adopted the AI Act, establishing the world’s first comprehensive legal framework for artificial intelligence.
• ElevenLabs introduces a new AI tool for generating text-to-sound-effects – AI voice company ElevenLabs has launched a new product that allows creators to generate sound effects, short instrumental tracks, and soundscapes from a text description.
• Amazon plans to give Alexa a major generative AI overhaul, possibly for a monthly fee – Amazon is planning to launch a more conversational, AI-powered version of its Alexa voice assistant later this year, which will likely require a subscription.
• China launches project to train an AI model on 2 trillion tokens – A Beijing-based consortium has initiated the “Wudao 3.0” project, aiming to train a large language model on an unprecedented 2 trillion tokens of high-quality data.
• YOU.com launches a new AI assistant to compete with ChatGPT and Perplexity – AI search engine YOU.com has released YOU Assistant, a multimodal conversational AI that can access the web in real-time and is priced competitively at $15/month.
• Scale AI raises $1B, doubling its valuation to $13.8B – Scale AI, a company that provides high-quality data for training AI models, has raised $1 billion in a new funding round with investment from major tech players like Nvidia, Amazon, and Meta.
• TikTok introduces ‘Symphony’, a creative AI suite for advertisers – TikTok has launched a new suite of AI tools called Symphony that allows marketers to create scripts, produce videos, and use AI-generated avatars for branded content.
• Wayfair launches ‘Decorify,’ an AI tool for virtual room makeovers – Online furniture retailer Wayfair has released an AI-powered tool called Decorify that lets users upload a photo of their room and see it instantly redecorated in various styles.
• Rabbit R1 creator claims to have sold 100,000 units of the AI device – Despite mixed and often critical reviews, Rabbit CEO Jesse Lyu announced that the company has sold 100,000 R1 AI gadgets so far.
• GitHub Copilot Workspace enters technical preview – GitHub is now offering a technical preview of Copilot Workspace, a new AI-native environment designed to help developers brainstorm, plan, build, and test software from a natural language prompt.
• Pika Labs adds a feature to extend AI-generated videos – The AI video generation platform Pika has introduced a new capability that allows users to extend the length of their created videos.
• Google and Magic Leap announce a strategic partnership for augmented reality – Google is partnering with AR pioneer Magic Leap to combine Magic Leap’s expertise in optics with Google’s technology platforms.
• Poe introduces multi-bot chats to compare different AI models at once – The AI platform Poe has launched a new feature enabling users to interact with multiple AI models, such as Claude and GPT-4o, within a single chat conversation.
• Cruise restarts manual driving operations in Phoenix for mapping – After a months-long operational pause, GM’s self-driving car company Cruise has resumed driving manually driven vehicles in Phoenix to create maps and gather data.
• An AI-generated Beatles song imagines a track from a lost album – A creator used AI to generate a complete song, including vocals and instrumentation, in the style of a 1960s Beatles track.
• UK researchers discover a potential “kill switch” for sleeper agent AI models – Researchers have developed a technique that can reliably identify and neutralize hidden, deceptive behaviors that are intentionally programmed into AI models.

Trending AI Tools:

• Luma Dream Machine – An AI video generator that creates high-quality, realistic 5-second video clips from text and image prompts.
• Kling – An AI model that can generate up to two minutes of high-quality 1080p video at 30 FPS from text prompts.
• Suno – An AI music generation tool that lets anyone create a song in any style with just a few words.
• Pika – An AI video platform that can generate and edit videos from text, images, or existing video clips.
• Runway – A comprehensive suite of AI-powered creative tools for video generation, editing, and visual effects.
• ElevenLabs – A voice AI research company known for its text-to-speech, voice cloning, and new AI music generator.
• Devin – The world’s first autonomous AI software engineer capable of handling entire development projects.
• Perplexity Pages – A tool that converts prompts or research into well-structured, visually appealing articles with citations.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator renowned for its ability to accurately render text within images.
• Defog – An AI tool that connects to your data warehouse and turns technical questions into SQL queries, code, and charts.
• Sora – OpenAI’s text-to-video model capable of creating realistic and imaginative scenes from text instructions.
• Udio – A text-to-music generator that creates high-quality, full-length tracks with vocals from simple text prompts.
• Krea – A real-time AI image generator and enhancer that allows for creative upscaling and modification of images.
• Recast – An AI tool that summarizes articles, podcasts, and videos into short, shareable audio conversations.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform for creating studio-quality videos with AI-generated avatars and voices.
• Figure 01 – A humanoid robot powered by OpenAI’s models that can perform tasks and have conversations.
• Coze – A platform from ByteDance that lets you quickly build, debug, and deploy AI chatbots on various platforms.
• Glass AI – An AI-powered tool that helps clinicians quickly draft medical notes and documentation.
• GodMode – A web platform that provides free access to a wide variety of large language models in one place.
• Factory – A no-code platform for building, testing, and deploying custom AI agents and complex workflows.
• AI QR Code Generator – A free tool that generates unique, artistic QR codes using stable diffusion.
• StoryBird.ai – An AI tool that allows you to generate beautifully illustrated and personalized children’s stories in seconds.
• Rabbit R1 – A pocket-sized AI assistant designed to handle tasks on your apps for you.
• ThinkTask – An AI agent platform designed to automate complex business processes and workflows.
• Piggy Quiz Maker – A tool that instantly creates engaging quizzes and flashcards from any text, URL, or topic.
• AIcyclopedia – A comprehensive directory and search engine for discovering AI tools across various categories.

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