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 Launches “Apple Intelligence” – A new personal AI system integrated across iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia that focuses on privacy and user context while also partnering with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its platforms.
• Elon Musk Threatens to Ban Apple Devices Over OpenAI Integration – He threatened to ban Apple devices from his companies, including Tesla and SpaceX, citing “unacceptable security violations” over Apple’s new OS-level integration of OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
• Luma Labs Launches Dream Machine – A new text-to-video AI model available to the public that is being praised for its high-quality, coherent, and rapid video generation capabilities.
• Stability AI Releases Stable Diffusion 3 Medium – A powerful 2B parameter open-weight text-to-image model that excels at photorealism, typography, and resource efficiency.
• OpenAI Hires New CFO and CPO – OpenAI announced the hiring of Sarah Friar, former CEO of Nextdoor, as its first Chief Financial Officer and Kevin Weil, former President of Planet Labs, as its new Chief Product Officer.
• Mistral AI Raises $640 Million – The Parisian AI startup raised $640 million in a new funding round led by General Catalyst, tripling its valuation to $6 billion.
• AI Insiders Publish Open Letter on AI Risks – A group of current and former employees from major AI labs like OpenAI and Google DeepMind published an open letter expressing concerns about the risks of advanced AI and advocating for stronger whistleblower protections.
• Perplexity Reaches $1 Billion Valuation – The AI-powered search engine raised $62.7 million in a new funding round, increasing its valuation to over $1 billion with backing from investors like Jeff Bezos.
• Raspberry Pi Shares Surge in Public Debut – The creator of the popular low-cost single-board computers saw its shares surge over 30% in its successful public debut on the London Stock Exchange.
• Sakana AI Pioneers Evolutionary Model Merging – The Japanese AI startup is pioneering a method that uses evolutionary algorithms to automatically merge and discover novel combinations of open-source models, creating powerful new models without traditional training.
• CoreWeave Offers $1B to Acquire Core Scientific – AI cloud provider CoreWeave made a $1 billion all-cash offer to acquire Bitcoin miner Core Scientific, highlighting the convergence of AI infrastructure needs and crypto-mining facilities.
• Stanford Researchers Retract Llama3-V Model – Researchers retracted their Llama3-V multimodal AI model paper after it was discovered their work was built directly on a non-public model from Chinese startup MiniCPM without proper credit.
• Google Tests AI Scam Alerts for Phone Calls – Google is testing an on-device AI feature for Android that provides real-time alerts during phone calls if it detects language patterns associated with financial scams.
• Google Upgrades NotebookLM with Gemini 1.5 Pro – Google updated its research and writing assistant, NotebookLM, with Gemini 1.5 Pro, adding multimodal capabilities and the ability to process sources like Google Slides and URLs.
• SEC Charges Advisers for “AI Washing” – The SEC charged two investment advisers for making false and misleading statements about their use of AI, marking a significant regulatory crackdown on “AI washing.”
• Inflection Makes Inflection-2.5 Model Available Via API – The company made its highly-capable Inflection-2.5 model, which powers the Pi assistant, available to developers and businesses through an API.
• Cerebras Announces Strategic Partnership with Dell – The AI chip company announced a strategic partnership with Dell Technologies to deliver solutions for AI model training by combining Cerebras’s systems with Dell’s servers.
• Scarlett Johansson Hires Lawyers Over Deepfake Ad – Following her dispute with OpenAI, Scarlett Johansson has hired lawyers to address a separate issue involving a 22-year-old photo of her being used in a deepfake online ad.
• G42 and Microsoft to Power Data Centers with Geothermal Energy – The UAE’s G42 and Microsoft are collaborating on a project to use geothermal energy to power data centers, aiming for a more sustainable way to run AI infrastructure.
• Section Raises $40M for Edge AI Cloud Platform – Section, an edge and cloud platform provider for AI, has raised $40 million to expand its distributed cloud infrastructure globally.
• Video Shows AI Agents Collaborating to Build a Web App – A new video demonstrates how multiple AI agents can collaborate to build a full-stack web application, showcasing the potential for automated software development.
• “LLMs from Scratch” Second Edition Now Available – The second edition of the book is now available, providing a comprehensive guide to building and understanding large language models from the ground up.
• Forbes Publishes “AI 50 2024” List – The publication’s annual list includes a spotlight on the top 25 venture capitalists who are shaping the generative AI landscape.

Trending AI Tools:

• Viggle – A free AI tool to animate any static character image with realistic motion from a reference video.
• Perplexity Pages – An AI tool that turns any prompt or topic into a shareable, well-structured, and visually rich webpage or article.
• Audiobox – Meta’s new audio generation model for creating voices, sound effects, and audio styles from text prompts.
• Morpheus-1 – A system designed to induce and stabilize lucid dreams, allowing for conscious exploration of the dream state.
• Suno – An AI music generator that creates original songs, complete with lyrics and vocals, from a simple text prompt.
• Project Music GenAI Control – An Adobe research project that allows users to generate and edit music using text prompts, similar to how image generators work.
• FigJam AI – An AI assistant integrated into Figma’s online whiteboard to generate ideas, summarize notes, and create visual timelines or diagrams.
• Mindtrip – An AI travel planner that creates personalized itineraries and provides real-time travel advice.
• Opus Clip – A generative AI video tool that automatically repurposes long videos into viral short clips for social media.
• Riffusion – An app for real-time music generation and visualization by creating spectrograms and turning them into audio.
• Shortvideo.ai – A tool that creates viral short videos for platforms like TikTok and Instagram Reels using AI voices, stock footage, and subtitles.
• Gamma – An AI-powered tool that allows users to create engaging presentations, documents, and webpages from text prompts.
• Diagram – An AI-powered design tool that automates UI/UX design tasks and can generate design systems.
• Lindy – An AI assistant that automates tasks like calendar management, email drafting, and contact management.
• Code Llama 70B – Meta’s most advanced open-source AI model specifically designed for code generation, completion, and debugging.

Sponsors:

• Workera – A skills intelligence platform that helps enterprises measure, upskill, and hire AI talent.
• Masterworks – This platform allows everyday investors to invest in shares of multimillion-dollar paintings by artists like Banksy and Picasso.
• Tweet Hunter – An all-in-one Twitter growth tool designed to help you grow and monetize your Twitter audience.
• Descript – An all-in-one tool for writing, recording, transcribing, and editing videos and podcasts.
• Vultr – A privately-held cloud computing company providing technology solutions for developers and businesses.
• Clay – A sales automation platform that uses data, web scraping, and AI to help users find and engage ideal customers.
• AE Studio – A team of world-class developers, designers and data scientists who can help you build and scale your AI product.
• Speechify – The #1 AI text-to-speech reader, now with over 200 voices, including celebrity voices like Snoop Dogg and Gwyneth Paltrow.