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” – its new personal AI system deeply integrated into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, which focuses on privacy by using on-device processing and a “Private Cloud Compute” system.
• Apple and OpenAI Announce Partnership – to integrate OpenAI’s ChatGPT into experiences within its operating systems, including Siri and system-wide Writing Tools, accessible without an account.
• Elon Musk Threatens to Ban Apple Devices – from his companies, citing “unacceptable security violations” over Apple’s new OS-level integration with OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
• Meta to Release Llama 3.1 in July – a smaller and more efficient version of its flagship AI model.
• Perplexity Launches Pages – a new feature that allows users to generate comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports on any topic from a series of prompts.
• Mistral AI Raising $600 Million – in a funding round that would value the French AI startup at $6 billion, tripling its valuation in six months.
• Raspberry Pi Stock Surges in IPO – with its stock price surging over 30% in its London Stock Exchange debut, indicating strong investor confidence.
• Humane Seeks Buyer for Ai Pin – the AI hardware startup is reportedly seeking a buyer with an asking price between $750 million and $1 billion following disappointing reviews of its flagship product.
• Inflection-2.5 API Now Available – the emotionally intelligent AI model is now available to developers and enterprises through an API.
• Snowplow Launches AI Copilot – a tool that allows anyone, regardless of technical skill, to query and analyze customer behavior data using natural language.
• Section Launches New Enterprise AI Platform – a new platform to help enterprises run and manage a wide variety of open and closed-source AI models from providers like Google, NVIDIA, and Hugging Face.
• Google DeepMind Introduces VLOGGER – an AI model that can generate a controllable, animated video of a person talking and moving from a single still photograph.
• Figure 01 Robot Learns to Make Coffee – new footage shows the humanoid robot autonomously completing tasks in a BMW factory after only 10 hours of training.
• SEC Investigating OpenAI – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is reportedly investigating whether investors in OpenAI were misled during the period of CEO Sam Altman’s ouster and reinstatement.
• Waymo Issues Software Recall – for its self-driving vehicles after one of its robotaxis struck a telephone pole in Phoenix, Arizona.
• MIT Develops “Liquid” Neural Networks – a more resilient and transparent type of AI that can navigate a drone or drive a car using only camera input.
• Microsoft Introduces Aurora – a new foundation model for weather and climate prediction that can forecast global air pollution and weather patterns significantly faster and more accurately than traditional systems.
• Stability AI Launches Stable Artisan – a Discord-based service that gives users access to its latest image and video generation tools, including Stable Diffusion 3.
• Saudi Arabia’s PIF Launches Neo Space Group – an investment company intended to make the kingdom a leading hub for the global space industry.
• Character.AI in Funding Talks – the AI startup known for its companion chatbots is reportedly in talks with investors, including Google, for a new funding round that would value the company at over $5 billion.
• AI Helps Discover Lost Raphael Painting – researchers used AI to help discover a previously unknown painting of the Virgin and Child by the Renaissance master, located at Haddo House in Aberdeenshire.
• Gretel Releases NavigateSQL – an open-source text-to-SQL model designed to provide higher accuracy and privacy for converting natural language questions into database queries.
• Cerebras Open-Sources BTLM-4B Models – a family of 4-billion-parameter models that they claim match or exceed the performance of models 7 to 15 times larger, like Llama 3 8B and Mistral 7B.
• Continue Launches Open-Source AI Coding Assistant – the creators of the popular VS Code extension have launched an assistant that can be customized and connected to any local or hosted language model.
• Study Finds AI Tutors as Effective as Humans – a new study suggests that AI tutors can be as effective as human tutors in helping students learn, raising possibilities for more accessible and personalized education.
• CoreWeave Secures $2.2B for European Expansion – the cloud provider, which specializes in GPU-based computing for AI, announced a new debt financing deal to fund its expansion.
• New Research Explores “Model Unlearning” – a research paper explores the process of forcing an AI model to forget specific data it was trained on, a crucial capability for privacy and regulation.

Trending AI Tools:

• Claude 3 – Anthropic’s new family of AI models (Haiku, Sonnet, & Opus) that set new benchmarks and outperform GPT-4.
• Ideogram 1.0 – A new text-to-image model that offers state-of-the-art, reliable text rendering within generated images.
• Krea – A suite of AI tools featuring a new model to upscale and enhance your images with incredible detail.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI tool that instantly creates beautiful, comprehensive, and well-designed articles on any topic from a single prompt.
• HeyGen – A platform to create professional-looking videos using realistic AI avatars and voices from text.
• Luma Dream Machine – A highly capable text-to-video model for creating realistic and surreal videos from text prompts.
• Screenshot to Code – An open-source tool that converts screenshots of websites into clean, functional HTML/CSS code.
• Scribble to site – An open-source tool that converts your hand-drawn wireframes into functional websites in seconds.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI video tool that repurposes long videos into viral short clips with one click.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates your work by handling your calendar, email, and meeting notes.
• Tether – A tool that uses AI to search your entire digital life, including all your apps and files, from one place.
• Briefly – An AI tool that summarizes your Slack channels and threads to help you catch up quickly.
• Mistral API – A platform offering access to Mistral’s latest powerful models, including the new GPT-4 competitor, Mistral Large.
• Recast – An app that turns any web article into a short podcast using your own cloned AI voice.
• Vali – An AI tool that converts text into natural-sounding speech with expressive, high-quality voices.
• Kaiber – An AI-powered video generation tool for creating stunning visuals from your own images or text descriptions.
• Chat with any Llama model – A new user interface from llama.cpp that allows you to talk to any Llama model on your local machine.
• Glean – An AI work assistant that securely searches across all your company’s apps to find exactly what you need.
• Parchment – An AI-powered document editor that utilizes AI agents to help with writing and editing tasks.
• Magic Patterns – An AI-powered tool that generates React UI components from a text prompt.
• Jounce – An AI tool that instantly converts long articles into a variety of brand-ready social media posts.
• OpenRead – An AI-powered platform designed to provide a more interactive and efficient way to read and analyze research papers.
• Monic AI – An AI-powered learning co-pilot that helps you create assessments and interactive study materials from any content.
• Windsor – An AI sales platform that helps you send personalized videos to prospects to increase reply rates.
• Gleen – An AI chatbot for your website, Zendesk, or Slack that provides answers pulled directly from your own knowledge base.
• Cognito – A search engine designed for developers to find code, documentation, and technical solutions.
• PikaBot – A Discord bot that uses the Pika API to animate images directly within a chat server.
• Prompt Whisperer – A custom GPT that acts as your personal prompt engineer to help you craft better prompts for other AIs.
• Heights – An all-in-one AI-powered platform designed to help you create courses, communities, and run your entire business.

Sponsors:

• Notion AI – An AI tool that gives you instant answers to questions based on information from across your wiki, projects, and docs.
• Firefox – A fast, private browser with tools designed to make you more productive.
• Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub – A platform that helps founders build startups faster with Azure credits and free access to OpenAI models and dev tools.
• Beehiiv – A newsletter platform built for growth, providing the tools you need to grow your audience and business.
• Lemon.io – A marketplace for hiring engineers, vetted for their AI expertise, that delivers a list of matched candidates in 48 hours.
• CommandBar – A tool that helps you add a beautiful AI chatbot to your product in minutes to answer user questions and take actions.
• Masterworks – An investment platform that lets you invest in multi-million dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Basquiat for a fraction of the cost.
• theresanaiforthat.com – The #1 AI tools database for finding the right tool for any task.
• Plus AI – An all-in-one AI toolkit for creating presentations, reports, and other documents directly in Google Workspace.
• Netskope – A security platform that enables the productive use of generative AI apps like ChatGPT while protecting your sensitive data.
• HubSpot – A CRM powered by AI with features designed to help you work smarter by summarizing calls, generating reports, and creating images.