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:

• Mistral AI releases Large 2 – its new flagship model with improved reasoning and multilingual capabilities, which is now powering its Le Chat assistant.
• Apple in talks to integrate Google’s Gemini into the iPhone – as an optional feature within its new Apple Intelligence system.
• Perplexity launches “Pages” – a new feature that allows users to create and publish comprehensive articles on any topic from a single prompt.
• Microsoft delays “Recall” feature for Copilot+ PCs – shifting it to the Windows Insider Program first for further testing following security concerns.
• AWS commits an additional $230 million to support generative AI startups – by providing credits, mentorship, and education.
• Pika raises $80 million and launches Pika 1.0 – its comprehensive video creation platform.
• Stanford study reveals AI detection tools are unreliable – and exhibit a significant bias against non-native English writers.
• Harvey raises $80 million for legal AI tools – in a Series B funding round co-led by Elad Gil and Kleiner Perkins.
• US antitrust regulators clear way for probes into Nvidia, OpenAI, and Microsoft – allowing the Department of Justice to investigate Nvidia and the FTC to probe OpenAI and Microsoft.
• Klarna’s AI assistant is now handling the work of 700 agents – handling two-thirds of all customer service chats with higher customer satisfaction scores.
• Sakana AI develops ‘evolutionary’ approach to merge AI models – a technique that can automatically combine and create new open-source AI models without extensive training.
• xAI to build “Gigafactory of Compute” supercomputer in Memphis – partnering with the city to build a massive supercomputer to power future AI development.
• Google DeepMind unveils AI tools for filmmaking – including a tool to generate shots from a script and another to create synchronized soundtracks.
• Wayve raises over $1 billion for “embodied AI” – securing funds from investors including SoftBank, Nvidia, and Microsoft to advance its AI for autonomous driving.
• Cognition Labs, creator of ‘Devin’, in talks to raise funds at $2B valuation – reportedly discussing funding from investors including Founders Fund.
• Glean raises $200 million for AI enterprise search – in a Series D funding round at a $2.2 billion valuation.
• Stability AI appoints Prem Akkaraju as new CEO – the former CEO of visual effects company Weta Digital.
• Character.ai rolls out voice capabilities for all chatbots – allowing users to engage in spoken conversations with all of its AI characters.
• FEC nears decision on regulating deceptive AI in political ads – as both parties begin to use the technology.
• Hume AI releases Empathic Voice Interface (EVI) API – allowing developers to build applications with voice AI that can understand and respond to emotional tones.
• YouTube is testing AI-generated summaries for live chat – to automatically summarize conversations and organize topics within a video stream’s chat.
• OpenAI researcher Lilian Weng to lead new Applied AI Research team – focusing on scaling laws and the future of AI agents.
• Humane, creator of the Ai Pin, is reportedly seeking a buyer – for between $750 million and $1 billion following a negative product launch and poor reviews.
• AI model predicts pop music hits with 97% accuracy – by analyzing listeners’ brain activity to predict whether a new song will be a hit.
• New study shows LLMs can adopt various moral and political frameworks – demonstrating they can convincingly argue from different perspectives, even controversial ones.
• LinkedIn faces EU privacy complaint over AI data scraping – alleging it allows user data to be scraped for AI model training in potential violation of GDPR.
• Chinese scientists create “Taichi” neuromorphic AI chip – a new, highly energy-efficient chip that mimics the structure of the human brain’s neural network.
• AI cloud provider CoreWeave valuation jumps to $19 billion – following a recent secondary sale.
• Adobe stock surges on high demand for AI creative tools – after reporting strong Q2 earnings and raising its annual forecast.
• Hugging Face launches Serverless Inference Endpoints – a pay-as-you-go service allowing developers to deploy and run thousands of open-source AI models without managing infrastructure.

Trending AI Tools:

• Perplexity – An AI research and search engine that can now generate comprehensive, shareable reports and articles called ‘Pages’ from a single prompt.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates realistic, full-length songs with vocals and lyrics from simple text prompts.
• Udio – A leading generative AI music tool that creates high-quality songs from text prompts, serving as a major competitor to Suno.
• Dream Machine – A new and publicly available AI model from Luma AI that generates high-quality, realistic videos from text descriptions and images.
• Pika – An AI platform that enables users to generate and edit videos in various styles from text, images, or existing video clips.
• Amazon Q – An AI-powered assistant from AWS designed for businesses to help with software development, data analysis, and creating internal applications.
• Adobe Firefly – Adobe’s family of creative generative AI models integrated into its suite of apps like Photoshop for image generation and editing.
• Kindle – Amazon’s e-reader platform, which is currently testing AI-generated summaries to give readers a quick overview of books.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that creates professional-looking videos with realistic AI avatars and voices, ideal for marketing and presentations.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator renowned for producing highly artistic and detailed visuals from text prompts via Discord.
• Runway – An advanced AI-powered platform for video generation, editing, and visual effects, widely used by creators and filmmakers.
• ElevenLabs – An advanced AI voice generator known for creating realistic, human-like speech, voice cloning, and dubbing.
• Krea – A suite of real-time AI tools for generating and enhancing images, creating patterns, and upscaling visuals.
• Adobe Express – An all-in-one content creation app from Adobe that uses Firefly AI to help users design social media posts, videos, and marketing materials.
• Brave Leo – The native AI assistant in the Brave browser that can summarize web pages and videos, answer questions, and perform other tasks.
• Mindtrip – An AI travel planner that crafts personalized, detailed travel itineraries based on your interests and preferences.
• Recap – An AI tool that provides quick summaries of various content types, including web articles, YouTube videos, and PDFs.
• Splash – An AI-powered music creation tool integrated into the Roblox platform, allowing users to generate original music with text prompts.
• Kino – An AI-powered tool for filmmakers that automatically organizes, transcribes, and makes video footage searchable.
• Chirr App – An AI-assisted editor designed to help users write, format, and schedule engaging Twitter threads.
• Poly.ai – An enterprise platform that provides AI-powered voice assistants to automate customer service phone calls.

Sponsors:

• Glean – The AI-powered work assistant that searches across all your company’s apps to help you find exactly what you need.
• Brilliant Directories – Allows you to start your own AI-powered membership website without any coding.
• Runway – Hosting its AI Film Festival with submissions open for a chance to win $50,000 in cash and prizes.
• AssemblyAI – Hosting LLM Showdown 2024, where the latest LLMs battle in a series of challenges.
• Modyfi – Provides AI-powered design tools to create stunning visuals in seconds.
• AE Studio – Offers a free AI audit to help businesses secure their future in the AI revolution.
• Vultr – Provides a solution for AI and ML training and inferencing.
• Osum – An AI-powered business name generator.