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’ to bring generative AI to its devices – Apple announced its new personal intelligence system that deeply integrates generative AI into iOS 18, iPadOS 18, and macOS Sequoia, featuring a partnership with OpenAI to bring ChatGPT to its platforms.
• Elon Musk threatens to ban Apple devices over OpenAI integration – Following Apple’s announcement, Elon Musk declared he would ban Apple devices from his companies, citing “unacceptable security violations” related to the new OpenAI partnership.
• Luma Labs unveils Dream Machine, a realistic text-to-video AI model – Luma Labs launched its new video generation model, Dream Machine, which is available to the public and capable of creating high-quality, realistic video clips from text prompts.
• Mistral AI raises $640 million in new funding round – The Paris-based AI startup has secured a new funding round led by General Catalyst, valuing the company at nearly $6 billion.
• Snowflake announces major AI features at its annual summit – At its Data Cloud Summit, Snowflake unveiled new tools like Snowflake Notebooks, Cortex AI enhancements, and a Polaris Catalog to help enterprises build and manage AI on their data.
• Oracle partners with Google Cloud and OpenAI to expand AI services – Oracle announced that its database will be available on Google Cloud and it will partner with OpenAI to bring its models to Oracle’s cloud infrastructure for enterprise customers.
• Figure signs deal to bring its humanoid robots to BMW factory – Humanoid robotics company Figure has signed a commercial agreement with BMW to deploy its general-purpose robots in a US automotive manufacturing facility.
• Perplexity redesigns its results page for more direct answers – The AI search engine launched a new, more dynamic search results page that emphasizes direct, comprehensive answers and visual cards over traditional lists of links.
• OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-4o access to free ChatGPT users – OpenAI has started upgrading free users of ChatGPT to its latest and most powerful model, GPT-4o, which offers faster responses and multimodal capabilities.
• Waymo recalls 672 self-driving vehicles after robotaxi collides with pole – Alphabet’s autonomous vehicle unit issued a software recall after an unoccupied Waymo vehicle struck a wooden utility pole in an alley in Phoenix, Arizona.
• Microsoft lays off hundreds of employees in its Azure cloud division – Microsoft has conducted another round of layoffs, this time cutting hundreds of jobs within its Azure cloud unit, including on the teams responsible for its cloud and AI mission engineering.
• Raspberry Pi shares surge 38% in London IPO – The maker of the popular low-cost single-board computers saw its shares jump significantly on its first day of trading on the London Stock Exchange.
• Character.AI adds support for Google and Apple logins – The popular AI chatbot platform now allows users to sign in using their existing Google and Apple accounts, simplifying the login process.
• AI helps scientists discover a new class of antibiotics – Researchers used a deep-learning model to identify a new class of chemical compounds that can kill a multidrug-resistant species of bacteria.
• CoreWeave offers to acquire Core Scientific for $1.6 billion – AI cloud provider CoreWeave has made an all-cash offer to buy bitcoin miner Core Scientific as it seeks to expand its infrastructure for AI workloads.
• Cerebras partners with Dell to build and sell AI supercomputers – AI chipmaker Cerebras Systems is teaming up with Dell Technologies to provide solutions combining Cerebras’s hardware with Dell’s servers to accelerate enterprise AI adoption.
• Inflection makes its Inflection-2.5 model available on Hugging Face – Inflection AI has released its powerful Inflection-2.5 large language model on the Hugging Face platform, making it accessible for community use and development.
• Google brings AI Overviews to search results in the U.K. – Following its U.S. launch, Google is now rolling out its AI-generated search summaries feature to users in the United Kingdom.
• GitHub Copilot for Azure SQL is now in public preview – Microsoft has launched a new version of its AI coding assistant specifically tailored to help developers write and manage SQL code in the Azure environment.
• Google’s Lookout app uses AI to provide detailed image descriptions for the visually impaired – A new feature in Google’s Lookout app leverages AI to generate and read aloud detailed descriptions of images, providing more context for blind and low-vision users.
• Japanese AI startup Sakana AI is raising over $100M at a $1B+ valuation – Sakana AI, which uses evolutionary-inspired techniques to build AI models, is reportedly securing a new funding round that will make it Japan’s newest AI unicorn.
• Cleanlab raises $25M to help companies fix data for AI models – Spun out of MIT, Cleanlab has raised Series A funding to expand its platform that automatically finds and fixes issues in datasets used for training AI.
• Spotify launches an AI toolkit for advertisers to create audio ads – Spotify’s new AI-powered platform, Quick Audio, allows businesses to generate scripts and voiceovers for their audio ads using generative AI.
• SEC is investigating Oracle’s claims about AI server sales – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has reportedly opened an inquiry into statements made by Oracle regarding strong demand for its cloud servers used for AI workloads.
• EU regulators probe LinkedIn over potential data collection breaches – The European Commission is examining whether LinkedIn’s practices for collecting user data for targeted advertising services comply with the EU’s Digital Markets Act.
• Report: Generative AI could add up to $4.4 trillion annually to the global economy – A new McKinsey report analyzes the significant economic impact of generative AI, identifying major value creation opportunities in areas like customer operations, marketing, and software development.
• E-volucy raises $10M for AI-powered crop monitoring and pest control – The French agricultural technology startup secured funding for its system that uses sensors and AI to detect pests and diseases in crops, aiming to reduce pesticide use.
• Hugging Face releases a new, fast JavaScript inference library – Hugging Face launched a new JavaScript library, huggingface.js, designed for fast, easy, and browser-friendly inference with over 50 popular AI models.
• MIT study finds LLMs still lack human-like abstract reasoning – New research from MIT shows that while large language models excel at many tasks, they still struggle to reason about abstract concepts in the flexible way humans do.
• Promptbase, the first marketplace for AI prompts, has been acquired – The pioneering platform for buying and selling high-quality prompts for models like DALL-E and Midjourney has been sold to new owners who plan to expand its services.

Trending AI Tools:

• Runway Gen-3 Alpha – A new text-to-video model offering major improvements in speed, control, and realism, positioning it as a strong competitor to OpenAI’s Sora.
• Luma Dream Machine – A publicly available and popular AI model that generates high-quality, realistic video clips from simple text descriptions.
• Perplexity Pages – A tool that converts search queries or prompts into comprehensive, well-structured articles and reports complete with citations.
• Viggle – A free AI tool that animates a character from a still image to match a specific motion or dance video clip.
• Krea AI – A creative suite of AI tools that offers real-time image generation, upscaling, and new features like logo illusions and animated patterns.
• ElevenLabs Reader – An AI tool that can read and narrate the content of entire web pages, PDFs, or other documents aloud in a natural voice.
• Pika – An AI video generation platform that recently introduced a feature to add perfectly synchronized sound effects to created videos.
• Suno – An AI music and song creation tool that allows users to generate original music with vocals from text prompts.
• Udio – An AI-powered music creation tool that generates high-quality, full-length tracks with vocals based on user prompts.
• Midjourney – A popular AI image generator known for producing high-quality, artistic, and detailed visuals from text prompts.
• ChatGPT – OpenAI’s flagship conversational AI, now featuring the faster and more capable GPT-4o model with advanced voice and vision capabilities.
• OpenAI Sora – A highly advanced (but not yet public) text-to-video model from OpenAI that serves as a benchmark for quality in the industry.
• Mindtrip – An AI-powered travel planner that creates personalized itineraries and travel plans based on your preferences.
• Splash – An AI music platform, popular on Roblox, that allows users to create and perform original music within games.
• Julius – An AI data analyst that can interpret, analyze, and visualize data from spreadsheets and files through simple conversation.
• Luminal – An AI-powered Excel add-in that automates the tedious process of cleaning and preparing spreadsheet data.
• Fine-Tuner.ai – A platform that allows users to build and deploy their own custom AI agents without writing any code.
• Layer AI – An AI tool designed to help game development teams accelerate the creation of game art and assets.
• Context – A free and open-source AI chatbot that integrates directly into your computer’s terminal.
• Glass AI – An AI assistant for medical professionals that helps draft clinical plans and differential diagnoses based on patient information.
• Sieve – A platform for developers to build complex AI applications, particularly those involving video understanding and processing.
• AeroVate – An AI copilot designed to assist aerospace engineers with complex tasks and knowledge retrieval.
• Sermonotes – An AI tool that transcribes, summarizes, and helps repurpose church sermons for pastors and ministry teams.
• Glean – An AI-powered work assistant that provides search and knowledge discovery across all of a company’s applications.
• Danswer – An open-source enterprise search tool that allows you to ask natural language questions over internal documents and apps.
• Lexis+ AI – A generative AI assistant built for legal professionals to accelerate legal research, drafting, and summarization.
• HeyGen – An AI video platform that enables users to create realistic talking avatars and translate videos into different languages.
• Ideogram – An AI image generator particularly skilled at creating images that accurately include coherent text and typography.
• Leonardo AI – A comprehensive suite of generative AI tools for creating and editing images, textures, and other visual assets.
• GitHub Copilot – An AI-powered pair programmer from GitHub that suggests code and entire functions in real-time within your editor.
• xAI Grok – A conversational AI from xAI designed to answer questions with a bit of wit and a rebellious streak, with real-time access to X (formerly Twitter).
• Claude 3 – A family of powerful large language models from Anthropic known for their strong reasoning and long context capabilities.

Sponsors:

• DoNotPay – The world’s first robot lawyer that can help you fight corporations, beat bureaucracy, and sue anyone at the press of a button.
• Glean – A secure, AI-powered search tool that helps your team find exactly what they need, right when they need it.
• The Rundown AI – An AI newsletter that provides the latest news and tools to help you stay ahead of the curve.
• Replicate – A platform that allows you to run AI models like Llama 3 with an API.
• Intel – Offers a report detailing how AI can help companies succeed in the enterprise.
• Wix Studio – A web creation platform for agencies and enterprises to deliver exceptional results for clients, faster.
• MindPal – A tool that allows you to answer any question using your own data.
• Copilot for Microsoft 365 – An enterprise-ready AI assistant to give your team.
• Slalom – Provides a report on what over 300 leaders are doing to move generative AI from research to revenue.
• MLQ – Hosts the AI & Quant Conference in NYC for those interested in the intersection of artificial intelligence and quantitative finance.